Kirill Shamalov is the current vice-president of Sibur Holding, a Russian gas processing and petrochemicals firm located in Moscow, and is the son of Nikolay Shamalov, a co-owner of Rossiya Bank.
The Russian government owns 38 per cent of the gas company’s stock. He was thought to have assets worth roughly $2 billion at the time. Shamalov studied law at Saint Petersburg State University and joined the Russian petrochemical corporation Sibur as vice president at the age of 26.
In 2014, he purchased a share in Sibur from billionaire Gennady Timchenko, a longstanding Putin friend who was sanctioned by the US. He eventually sold most of his stock, but he still owns about 4% of Sibur.
Meet Kirill Shamalov’s Wife Katerina Tikhonova
Anna Tikhonova is the head of Innopraktika, a $1.7 billion development project at Moscow State University to build a science complex. She received a master’s degree in physics and mathematics from Saint Petersburg State University. She was named the director of a new artificial intelligence institute at the Russian university in February 2019.
Yekaterina Tikhonova is the youngest daughter of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina and was born in Dresden, East Germany. In 1991, her family relocated to Saint Petersburg, and she enrolled in German School Moscow.
She and her sister Maria were moved to Germany by their father during brutal gang fights involving the Tambov Gang as it took control of St. Petersburg’s energy trade. Their legal guardian was former Stasi Matthias Warnig.
Tikhonova married Kirill Shamalov in 2013, however, Tikhonova and Shamalov were said to have split up in January 2018.
