Biography

German Sterligov is one of the highest-profile figures in Russian business. In 1990, when Perestroika liberalization was thriving, he set up Alisa, the first raw material goods exchange in Russia, which enabled him to become the first official Russian billionaire at the young age of 23. He is the founder and head of an international company that offers unique business tools for investments and settlements. He is the promoter of a green way of life and has a farming business in the Moscow region that grows organic produce.

German Lvovich Sterligov is a descendent of the Sterligov noble dynasty, one of the Russian gentry's families, which has around 10 branches in the province of Ryazan.

He was born on 18 October 1966 in the city of Zagorsk (now Sergiev Posad) in the Moscow region.

He moved to Moscow at the age of 5 years old, when his father obtained a job and a flat in the capital. They lived in the centre of the city, at 7 Bolshaya Ordynka, in the house closest to Red Square.

He studied at School N 19, located nearby, where he specialised in English; his classmates were mainly boys from the famous "Building on the Embankment" (the current Udarnik cinema).

After leaving school, he served in the Soviet army and was a private soldier in a railway battalion in Mongolia.

When he left the army, he worked for a year as a lathe operator/borer at the Lenin Komsomol Car Plant (AZLK) in Moscow.

He joined the workers' faculty at Moscow State University, where he studied for a year as a full-time student in the law faculty. He was forced to leave the university on account of a dispute with Zolotarev, a professor of Soviet Communist Party history, to whom he declared that the history of the Soviet Communist Party was the bloodiest page in the history of humanity.

In 1990, he organized Alisa, the first commodity exchange in the country, which was transformed in 1993 into the Alisa Holding Company with 84 subsidiaries in Russia and abroad (New York, London).

In the years since then, he has conducted active political and social activities in the realm of patriotic values.

He stood as a candidate for the post of governor of the Krasnoyarsk region (2001), and then for the post of Moscow Mayor (2003). In the 2004 elections, he was proposed as a Russian presidential candidate; however, when he attempted to register himself as a candidate, he was turned down outright by the Central Election Commission.

In 2004, he abandoned his business and moved away from Moscow with his family. He secured the use of 37 hectares of land from the Moscow region authorities in a settlement in the Mozhaisk region near Moscow, where he engaged in farming and animal breeding.

At the end of 2008, he returned to business by organizing and heading up the Anti-Crisis Settlement and Commodity Centre in Moscow. Over 30 of the company's branches are currently operating in various parts of the world.

He is married and has five children.