Alrosa
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| ALROSA | |
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| Type | Joint stock |
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| Founded | February 19, 1992 |
| Headquarters |  Mirny, Moscow |
| Industry | Mining |
| Products | Diamonds |
| Slogan | N/A |
| Website | http://eng.alrosa.ru/profile/ |
Almazy Rossii-Sakha, known as Alrosa, is Russia's largest diamond company. Alrosa is engaged in the exploration, mining, manufacture and sale of diamonds. The company's operations are located primarily in the Sakha Republic/Yakutsk region. Alrosa accounts for approximately 20% of the world's rough diamond supply and 100% of Russia's rough diamond production.
The company's headquarters are in Moscow.
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[edit] History
The company was created in 1992 as the legal successor to the following entities:
- NPO Yakutalmaz, a former USSR state-owned diamond mining company;
- The diamond sorting and marketing divisions of the State Committee for Precious Metals and Gemstones of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation;
- Various divisions of the Almazjuvelirexport Foreign Trade Association.
On March 28 1998, Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the Law On Precious Metals and Stones - a document of vital importance to ALROSA, according to the company's website. [1]
[edit] Operations
Alrosa is active in diamond mining in Angola and Namibia.
Alrosa is active in other mining activities including oil exploration; natural gas production; and gold mining in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan through Celtic Resources Holdings of Dublin, Ireland.
[edit] Management
As of 2006, the Supervisory Board of ALROSA consists of Alexei Kudrin (Russia's Finance Minister, Chairman of the Board), Yegor Borisov (Chairman of the Government of Sakha (Yakutia), Vice Chairman of the Board), Gennady Alekseev (First Deputy Chairman of the Government of Sakha (Yakutia)), Alexander Akhlopov, Ivan Demyanov (Vice-President of ALROSA), Galina Makarova (Minister of Property Relations of Sakha (Yakutia)), Ivan Materov (State Secretary, Russia's First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade), Yuriy Medvedev (Russia's First Deputy Head of Rosimushchestvo), Gleb Nikitin (Head of the Commercial Sector Property Management Division under Rosimushchestvo), Aysen Nikolaev (Finance Minister of Sakha (Yakutia)), Alexander Nichiporuk (President of ALROSA), Anatoliy Popov (Head of the Mirny District Administration), Sergey Samoylov (Aide to Russia's President), Leonid Tolpezhnikov (Head of a department of Russia's Finance Ministry), Vyacheslav Shtyrov (President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)). [2]
As of 2006, the Executive Board of ALROSA consists of Alexander Nichiporuk (President), Vladimir Kalitin (Councellor of the President), Petr Glagolev (First Vice President, Executive Director), Mikhail Ganchenko (Chief Engineer), Ernst Berezkin (First Vice President), Pyotr Galaev (Vice President), Ivan Demyanov (Vice President), Yuri Dudenkov (Vice President), Yuri Ionov (Vice President), Olga Lyashenko (Chief Accountant), Alexander Morozkin (Vice President), Semyon Nazarov (Vice President), Dmitry Novikov (Vice President), Valentina Potrubeyko (Vice President) Sergey Uulin Vice President, Gustav Yakovlev (Vice President), Sergey Alyabyev (Director of the Nyrba mining combinate), Yuri Doinikov (Director of the Mirny mining combinate), Alexander Kozupeev (Director of the Anabar mining combinate), Yuri Petrov, Semyon Ponomaryov, Alexander chaadaev and two members with advisory vote: Anatoliy Popov (Head of the Mirny District Administration) and Pavel Tretyakov (Chairman of the Profalmaz Trade Union). [3]
Associated companies, organizations and facilities
- Almazexport in Moscow
- Anabar GOK a mining and diamond processing plant
- Botuobinskaya Kimberlite Pipe
- Brillianty ALROSA Diamond Manufacturing Company
- Catoca Diamond Processing Facility in Angola
- Catoca Diamond Deposit in Angola
- Diamond Center in Moscow
- Diamond Chamber, an entity of the Russian Federation
- Internationalnaya Underground Mine
- Internatzionalnaya Pipe - International Pipe
- Mirny Council of People's Deputies government
- Mirny Integrated Mining and Processing Plant
- Nyurba GOK, a mining and concentrating plant
- Nyurbinskaya Pipe
- Taiozhnaya Diamond Deposit
- Udachnaya pipe
- Udachny Integrated Mining and Processing Plant
- USSR Ministry of Non-ferrous Metallurgy
- Yubileinaya Pipe/Jublilee Pipe
- Yakutalmaz; Yakutalmaz Production and Research Association
- Yakutalmazstroy construction and installation division
- Yakutsk Diamond Production and Research Association
[edit] Competition
Alrosa's principal competitors include De Beers, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Group.
