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Russian-Azerbaijani businessman and politician
Farkhad Teimurovich Akhmedov is an Azerbaijani-Russian businessman and a former politician in Russia, departing his role in 2009. He is a former representative in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
Akhmedov was born in Baku, ASSR. He was raised in Goychay located in the central region of Azerbaijan, where his father worked. He graduated from high school there in 1971. Akhmedov left Azerbaijan in 1971, at the age of 15, and moved to Moscow. In Moscow, he entered Vocational Technical School No. 85 (assembling fitter) before being drafted for military service, serving from 1975 to 1977 in the Navy as a senior sergeant and platoon commander. At the end of his service, on the recommendations of his naval commanders, he submitted an application for admission to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) but was turned down, because of his father's conviction. In 1978, Akhmedov entered the Moscow Veterinary Academy named after K.I. Skryabin, graduating on an extra-mural basis in 1983 with a degree in Technology and Merchandising Process of Fur Products.
Akhmedov has been married three times with six children from those marriages. His wife, Anna Akhmedova (née Adamova) was born in 1983. His children were born in the United States and UK, they are believed to have dual-citizenship. His eldest son Teymur owned an apartment in the United Kingdom, that was gifted to him by his father when Teymur was 18. During a 2021 divorce trial between Teymur's parents, Teymur revealed that he had lost more than $50m in a single day of trading on the stock market in 2012 while a student at the London School of Economics. Akhmedov is the main sponsor of the Azerbaijan Goychay Pomegranate Festival.
From 1986 to 1994, Akhmedov lived in London, initially engaging in the sale of furs in international markets. Later, he founded and headed the Tansley Trading company specialising in the supply of equipment for the oil and gas industry of the USSR and also traded in oil and oil products.
Since 2011, Akhmedov has permanently been on the list of top 200 richest people in Russia according to the Russian version of Forbes magazine. In 2019, he ranked 67th in the rating of the richest people in Russia (estimated private fortune - $1.4 billion). In the list of billionaires of the world version of Forbes, he ranks at 2141st. Akhmedov owns the $300 million superyacht Luna which he bought from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. Following sanctions against Akhmedov after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the ship was seized by German authorities. In 2015, he acquired the painting Untitled Yellow and Blue by the American artist Mark Rothko for $46.5 million.
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