A well-known Chechen businessman and statesman is famous throughout the country for his extravagant deeds and the novels attributed to him with Russian and world celebrities. The biography of ex-senator Umar Dzhabrailov is filled with such stories. The businessman’s photos adorned the pages of many glossy magazines and the yellow press.
early years
The biography of Umar Dzhabrailov began in Grozny, where his parents, previously deported to Kazakhstan, returned. Therefore, he was born already in the capital of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on June 28, 1958. He was brought up in a large Chechen family, Umar has two sisters and three brothers. His father Ali (Alvi) Israpilovich Dzhabrailov worked as a secretary of the Komsomol district committee, then he went to work in the oil industry. In his free time he loved to write poetry. Mum Rumi Sarakaeva was engaged in housekeeping and raising children.
In 1973, Dzhabrailov graduated from high school in Grozny and moved to the capital. Here he studied at the fur and fur technical school belonging to the CPSU. From 1977 to 1979 he served in the strategic missile units in Korosten, Zhytomyr region of the Ukrainian SSR. In the army he joined the ranks of the Communist Party, in which he ceased membership in 1989.
Study and first job
After the demobilization in the biography of Umar Dzhabrailov, the Moscow period continued, he arrived in the capital to take exams at MGIMO. He was a little unlucky - he didn’t just get the score needed to enter the country's most prestigious university. Umar remained to study at the preparatory department, like all those who had served in the army, he had such a right. After a year of preparatory education, he became a student of the Economics Department of MGIMO, who graduated with honors in 1985 with a degree in International Economic Relations.
Umar got a free distribution and got a job at the department in his native institute, where he worked as a laboratory assistant from 1986 to 1988. In the years of perestroika that began, he got a job as an art inspector at one of the first cooperative galleries. In 1989, he represented several foreign companies in the country, as he speaks English, German and Italian and understands and speaks a few more.
First business experiences
In 1989, an entrepreneurial biography of Umar Dzhabrailov began, he founded his first company, Danako, which was engaged in the sale of petroleum products. He worked in it as a General Director until 1994, the company owned a network of gas stations in Moscow and the Moscow Region and supplied petroleum products to state enterprises. In 1993, Umar opened with his partner a French fashion store in the Slavyanskaya Hotel.
During these years, a Chechen businessman met Paul Tateum, an American. They organized a joint venture, where Dzhabrailov became the first deputy general director. He managed to keep the Slavyanskaya hotel for the company, which the Moscow Property Committee intended to pick up. In 1996, the first big scandal took place in the biography of Umar Alievich Dzhabrailov, which made him famous throughout the country. An American partner publicly accused Umar of killing him. In November 1996, Teitum, along with the guards, was shot dead near the Kiev station. The connection between the Chechen businessman and the murder was not established, but he was denied entry to the United States.
Business success
In 1997, began working biography of Umar Dzhabrailov as head of the Plaza group of companies. He continued to work at the Radisson-Slavyanskaya hotel complex, transferring to the position of Advisor to the Director General. The group provided property management services in the capital. Also during the same years, he worked as deputy director for marketing and leasing at Manezhnaya Ploshchad.
One of the Millennium group companies was engaged in show business, having built and managed the VI: RUS nightclub. Another of the Plaza business structures specialized in outdoor advertising; it owned about 20% of Moscow’s outdoor advertising surfaces. In the early 2000s, the biography of businessman Umar Dzhabrailov continued in the banking sector. First, he joined the board of directors of the bank, and in 2001 became chairman of the board of directors of the commercial bank Pervoe OVK.
In public service
In 2000, Dzhabrailov ran for president of Russia, as he himself said - with his deed he wanted to show that there was no discrimination against Chechens in the country. The businessman declared an annual income of 8.66 million rubles, an apartment and a BMW 850 car.
In 2004, he was appointed a member of the Federation Council from the Chechen Republic, where he worked as deputy chairman of the committee on international affairs. In 2006, he invited the President of Chechnya to leave his post ahead of schedule, which followed his advice, and Ramzan Kadyrov was elected to this place. In 2009, he left of his own free will. From 2009 to 2013, he served as an adviser to the assistant to the head of state.
Personal life
In the biography of Dzhabrailov Umar Alievich there were two marriages, from his second wife he has two daughters Danata and Alvina, who live with their mother in Monte Carlo.
He is a patron of star parties, often appeared on them along with famous beauties. The businessman’s photos, along with Zhanna Friske, Alexa, and even the famous black panther Naomi Campbell, adorned the pages of many tabloids.
In 2017, a Chechen businessman again appeared on the front pages of almost all Russian media resources. Dzhabrailov was detained for shooting at the ceiling from the award pistol of Yarygin at the Four Seasons Hotel. He himself called it an unfortunate accident.