Biography of Viktor Gerashchenko

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Gerashchenko Viktor Vladimirovich in financial circles emphasizes the high authority of the banker, not only among Russian banking professionals, but also in international structures, where he had a chance to represent the country - in the IMF, in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, in the magician of the World Bank for the provision of guarantees to investors and others.

Childhood and family of Viktor Gerashchenko The future famous banker was born on December 21 in the northern capital. His dad, Vladimir Sergeyevich, led the financial and economic institute, and when his son was 11 years old, he was appointed deputy head of the State Bank of the USSR. According to the President of the Association of Russian banks Sergei Egorov, he was a man of high erudition and broad progressive views.

Viktor Gerashchenko with parents, brothers and sisters on the right, their family was large. At first, my mother, Anastasia Vasilievna, had two twin girls, then Victor and his brother are also twins, and then-the younger sister. According to the stories of relatives, the father, taking his wife from the hospital for the third time, surprised the staff with the question: “Where is another daughter?

The childhood of Viti coincided with the tragic period of the Great Patriotic War. The family was evacuated to Kazan, then they moved to Kuibyshev now Samara, and in the year to Moscow. They got to a new place of residence in the collection of a railway car, frolic on the way with a sister right on the bags, in which they tangled the money. You can even say, as Gerashchenko later noted, known for his beautiful sense of humor, that at that very moment he decided to become a banker.

The young Viktor Gerashchenko on the left of their dad saw the children very rarely at home - all state employees belonging to the leadership worked from morning to late at night. They talked mainly on Sundays. But friends and acquaintances often came to visit them, drank tea or homemade wine together, mother prepared a corporate cake with cabbage. Vita liked such gatherings, the boy was interested in listening to the stories and instructive stories of adults.

The beginning of the career of Viktor Gerashchenko initially the young man planned to become a lawyer, but then, listening to the advice of one of the relatives, he entered the financial institution. In the year, he finished his studies at the university and ended up at the State Bank, where he was appointed an accountant in the management of foreign operations, he moved to Vneshotorgbank in the year.

The promising financier Viktor Gerashchenko in the year Viktor Vladimirovich trained in the Moscow People’s Bank of the MNB, Moscow Narodny Bank, established in the UK, where he received an impressive amount of knowledge about the functioning of foreign banking systems. Returning to his homeland, the novice banker was appointed head of the department in Vnesheconombank.

Having proven himself as a leader, he was again sent to the London MNB in ​​the year. There he quickly became its director. In the year, the financier took up the post of a tuning branch of this banking institution in Beirut, and two years later he became its manager. The financier returned to Moscow in the year, starting his work as the deputy head of the Department of Vneshtorgbank, then his head.

He did not know the German language, but could not refuse for the reason that the head of this institution had a heart attack. In the year he was again transferred to manage the MNB unit - now in Singapore. Viktor Gerashchenko coped with the most difficult tasks of Gerashchenko usually sent to those departments that had difficulty ensuring the timely fulfillment of obligations.

He always managed to cope with these and many other problems thanks to professionalism, determination, strong will, courage when making decisions. For the same reason, among his colleagues, he received the nickname Hercules, who, as you know, committed many fearless feats. In the year, an experienced professional was returned from abroad, and he continued to work in Vnesheconombank.

Soon he took the post of deputy chairman of the board. Then, in the year, Viktor Vladimirovich went to work in the State Bank, leading him. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he remained to lead the main bank, and with this the entire national credit-banking system. This post left the financier forcedly, after the events associated with the collapse of the domestic currency in the year.

Then for about two years he headed the International Moscow Bank. After the crisis year, the banker returned to the chair of the head of the Central Bank, which he occupied up to a year. After leaving the post, he became a deputy of the State Duma, and in the year he took over the leadership of Yukos, trying to resolve the conflict with the leadership of the country and save the enterprise.

The personal life of Viktor Gerashchenko ex-head of the Central Bank is married. With his life partner, Nina Gerashchenko in the girlishness of Drozdkova, he met during the joint study at the Moscow Financial Institute. The couple raised two children. In the year, the daughter of Tanya was born, in - the son of Kostya.Viktor Gerashchenko and his wife Nina daughter had a chance to visit a kindergarten in London, a preschool institution of the Soviet commercial, because to give children to a local garden to teach the language to the Soviet banker.

Tatyana went to school already in Lebanon. She really liked to study, and it was there that she decided to become a primary school teacher. When the head of the family was appointed to Germany, his wife and children remained in Moscow. He was very bored, felt lonely, regretted that the children were growing up without him, although he tried to visit at home at least once a month. When Victor was transferred to Singapore, he necessarily flew to the Central Office in Britain through Moscow to stay with his family day.

Viktor Gerashchenko lives in the suburbs of the children attended a regular school in films, studied well. Having matured, Tanya entered the pedagogical institute, she got married in her last year, worked at school for 4 years. After the break related to the birth of a child, due to a low teacher’s salary, she retrained to an employee of the financial sector. After graduating from accounting courses, Tatyana became an accountant in an insurance company.

The son played for a long time in Rugby, but on the advice of his father, he preferred admission to the economic and statistical institution. In the second year he was taken into the army. He served in the Marine Corps in the north. Demobilized, transferred to the evening department, married, worked in the credit department of one of the banks. Children gave the grandfather of four grandchildren-boys-two-a daughter, two-a son.

The older grandchildren have already continued the family dynasty of financiers - one entered Masi, the second to a banking school. The family of Viktor Gerashchenko Viktor Vladimirovich lives in the suburbs and considers the best vacation for himself - when the snowball fell, pick up a shovel and clear the paths in the yard. Today, Viktor Gerashchenko, the legendary banker on the day of his flight asked guests invited to celebrate the anniversary, instead of gifts to support the charity organization “Give Life”, organized by Dina Korzun and Chulpan Khamatova and collecting a means to help oncomal children.

Viktor Gerashchenko about the crisis of the highest class in one of the interviews of the year noted that the difficult situation in the domestic economy will drag on for a long time, will require serious and long -term restructuring. But the banking system, according to the ex-banker, must be restructured immediately, to improve and adjust to new realities the legislation, to radically change the personnel strategy with the development of a progressive selection policy and the training of qualified financial workers.

The ex-head of the Central Bank has an honorary professorship and the degree of Doctor of Sciences, marked by many state awards, including the Order of Honor, the Order of Merit to the Fatherland ”III and IV degrees. Tatyana Mosienko will have to answer for the use of Soviet assets.