Alexander Mashkevitch

Alexander Mashkevitch was born in 1954 in Bishkek

Mashkevitch was born on 23 February 1954 in Frunze, in the Kyrgyz SSR. His father Anton was a doctor born in Lithuania, and his mother Rakhel Yoffe was a lawyer born in Vitebsk. The family, of Lithuanian Jewish background, had been evacuated to Kyrgyzstan in 1941.

He studied philology at Kyrgyz State University. He began his working life as an academic and later served as dean of the faculty. During perestroika he turned to business.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, he moved to Kazakhstan and formed ties with President Nursultan Nazarbayev. With Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, he gained control of privatized chromium, alumina and gas operations and founded the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation. ENRC was listed on the London Stock Exchange in December 2007.

He served as president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress until 2011 and donated to Jewish communities in Central Asia and the Caucasus. He built 3 synagogues in Kazakhstan. In 2002 he asked Nazarbayev to approach Iran about Israeli soldiers captured by Hezbollah.

After the Carmel fire, he helped fund a fleet of firefighting vehicles with Michael Mirilashvili. He was married to Larisa and had 2 daughters. He died on 22 March 2025.