Roman Kulkov Biography

Partner of businessmen Roman Abramovich and Viktor Kharitonin.

In the 10th years, Kulkov-Sr. headed the electronic technology department of Novosibirskvneshtorgbank. According to legend, while studying at the institute, he met a future partner, Viktor Kharitonin. Together, they created a trademark of Percules in the year. In years he worked in a Siberian trading bank. In the year, along with Kharitonin, he moved to Moscow, where they were invited by the Investment Company "Profit House".

The company collaborated with Millhouse Capital Roman Abramovich, bought up the Aeroflot shares, energy and oil companies in its interests. In the year, Kharitonin and Kulkov bought the Ufavit plant. In addition to American enterprises, this company included the Nizhnenovgorod “Fitofarm-NN” and the Ufa “Ufavit”, as well as about a hundred pharmacies. In the year, Augment Investments Limited, controlled by Kharitonin and his partner Yegor Kulkov, bought almost all Farmstandart shares in the market.

Then Farmstandart delusted shares with the London Stock Exchange and the Moscow Exchange. This company received investment from Cyprus offshore Escala Capital owned by Kulkov. The project implies the creation of a surgeon’s robot, which should become a cheaper and practical alternative to DA Vinci. This network of the European standard clinics with a revenue of 16 billion rubles then occupied the third place in the list of the largest private medical companies forbes.

Egor Kulkov leads such a secretive lifestyle that this makes some observers assume that he is a double of the virtual double of Roman Abramovich. Egor Kulkov Forbes rated $ 3 billion in the year, mainly packages in pharmaceutical and medical companies Farmstandart, Otisifarm, Biocad and Generium. With the maximum price set by the state, 81 rubles per dose and low margins in the net profit of the company Kharitonin and Kulkov won at the expense of huge volumes.

Only on the "satellite" they earned over 60 billion rubles of net profit. After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war in the year, the Farmstandart shareholders tried to buy part of the assets of the Austrian forestry group Mondi, but the deal did not go into coordination in the Government Commission, and the FAS blocked it. In May, as part of a group of investors Kharitonin and Kulkov, a Russian business leaving the German company Henkel, which produces cosmetics and household chemistry, was bought for 54 billion rubles.

Materials in the list remained 88 people, last year they were planning to compete with the existing DA Vinci robot surgeons.