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Shalva Chigirinsky

Shalva Chigirinsky is an Israeli-Russian businessman known for real estate development in Moscow and for controlling the oil company Sibir Energy.

born 1949Controlling Sibir EnergyRussia Tower in MoscowReconstruction of Hotel RossiyaNew Holland Island redevelopment

Born: 1 July 1949, Kutaisi
Occupation: entrepreneur

Shalva Chigirinsky was born in 1949 in Kutaisi

Chigirinsky was born on July 1, 1949, in Kutaisi, into a Georgian Jewish family. He studied at a medical university in Moscow.

In 1987 he moved to Spain and later to Germany, where he worked in real estate. There he and banker Karl-Heinz Stock founded S+T Group Handels GmbH, which operated in Russia.

He returned to Russia in the early 1990s and managed building and restoration projects in Moscow. By 1997 he bought out his partner and renamed the firm ST Group. In 2001 he set up the Moscow Development Company with the Moscow Government, and in 2007 he moved his projects to Russian Land Ltd.

In the 1990s he also entered the oil business. In 1996 he founded Petrol Complex Company with BP, and in 1999 he merged his oil assets into Sibir Energy. He became CEO of Moscow Oil and Gas Company in 2003 and its president in 2004.