Congratulations on jubilee: Kazanorgsintez Director General Farid Minigulov turns 55
By the 55th jubilee, Realnoe Vremya has collected congratulations and stories of Mr Minigulov’s colleagues in political and petrochemical activity and learnt what the head of Kazanorgsintez is like out of the office and his hobbies.
Onset of labour path
The whole life of the director of one of the largest Russian ethylene polymer and co-polymer manufacturers is linked with petrochemical production. Mr Minigulov was born in Nizhnekamsk and entered Kazan Chemical and Technological Institute after graduating from a school in his native town. Then he took a postgraduate course and defended a PhD dissertation.
In 1995, the graduate gets to a big factory — Nizhnekamskneftekhim. As a shift and a plant division foreman Mr Minigulov grew into the chief engineer of the polystyrene and gas condensate processing plant. The talented worker is noted and offered a new appointment. In 2004, he becomes the director of Kazanorgsintez’s polycarbonate plant. Eight years later, he chairs the whole enterprise. Since then, KOS has remained the leading enterprise of Russia’s chemical production, continues production modernisation, exports products to tens of countries and doesn’t stop developing.
His colleagues have a lot of stories about the Kazanorgsintez director general and Tatarstan State Council deputy. Board Chairman of the Tatarstan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Shamil Ageyev remembers their first acquaintance well.
“We got acquainted with Mr Minigulov in a plane, and this on-board meeting turned out to be more productive than all official meetings. I understood that an analytic mind and strong organisational skills were behind his external simplicity, a cunning squint. With such a manager, KOS will prosper for the good of Tatarstan.
Kazanorgsintez is special because it was a top construction project for Kazan. All its directors were original and powerful people: first Director Vladimir Lushnikov who was then substituted by Nail Yusupov, Leonid Alyokhin and Farid Minigulov now. He has a strong personality, moreover, it is harder for him to work because requirements now are much higher. Earlier, the enterprise was independent, now it is a part of TAIF GC, “ Shamil Ageyev shares with Realnoe Vremya.
In his opinion, Mr Minigulov is a very disciplined person with a good sense of humour, he knows how to recount stories to people and always keeps his spirits up.
“He’s a tough guy. When he bought watermelons, he took them and walked with an assured step”
Chairman of the Tatarstan regional office of Business Russia, Tatarstan State Council deputy Artur Abdulzyanov has his own story of acquaintance with the KOS director general. The State Council colleagues got acquainted in... a queue for watermelons.
“I told him not to stay here. He was against, we squabbled a bit. Then we met at a session in the State Council and made peace. He’s a tough guy. When he bought watermelons, he took them and walked with an assured step.”
“He is, without doubt, a talented personality. The ability to make his ideas a reality, long-term experience of career development is good evidence of it. Mr Minigulov has shown himself as a person whose creed is to aspire and move forward,” Artur Abdulzyanov describes the head of the chemical enterprise.
Director General of Novy Vek TV and Radio Company JSC, Tatarstan State Council deputy Ilshat Aminov thinks that Mr Minigulov is not only a strong manager but also a very creative person.
“I remember once Mr Minigulov took a guitar and started to sing an amazing song of Sunday band. Then I understood he is a creative soul that not only does his duties but also does everything with inspiration, it is felt. He works, spends time on art. It is great when a person is an all-rounder.
At the same time, Mr Minigulov is a God-given chemist who feels technological processes perfectly. He understands absolutely all petrochemical processes that take place in the big enterprise and keeps almost all this in his mind. And he always makes very well-thought-out, reasonable decisions,” says the director general of Novy Vek TV and Radio Company JSC.
Meanwhile, head of the Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation in the Republic of Azerbaijan and Russian Information and Culture Centre in Baku Irek Zinnurov, Farid Minigulov is always ready to help his employees with good advice.
“When I played for Sintez-Kazan water polo club, Leonid Alyokhin visited one of our matches, he was the director general then, and Mr Minigulov came with him. I remember that it was already said at that meeting that he was going to be appointed as the director general. Of course, without managerial skills, a person couldn’t be simply considered for such a post. Now Mr Minigulov is an exacting but fair manager. He doesn’t impede his subordinates from doing their job, he can only help and give them good advice,” Irek Zinnurov says.
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