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Alexander Mikhalskiy
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- retail
- Industry
- Fashion & Retail
- Residence
- Education
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Master of Science in Engineering)
Biography
Alexander Mikhalskiy is a cofounder of Sportmaster, Russia's largest sports and fashion retailer, which he started with brothers Nikolay and Vladimir Fartushnyak.
He also cofounded Ostin, a Russian fast-fashion retailer, with the brothers, both of whom are billionaires.
In the early 1990s Mikhalskiy and his partners had a distribution business that supplied French consumer goods to the Russian market.
They later became the exclusive distributor for German sports retailer Kettler and opened the first Sportmaster store in 1997.