Tamaz Somkhishvili was born on 22 June 1957 in Tbilisi within the household of Valerian Amiranovich Somkhishvili and Lili Archilovna Melikishvili. He was the second of 5 youngsters.
The primary three youngsters have been boys: Jemal, Tamaz, and Zurab, who have been born a 12 months aside in 1956, 1957, and 1958. In 1962, the fourth boy, Anzor, was born, and in 1966, a woman, Lali, accomplished the household.
Tamaz’s household belongs to an historical Georgian lineage whose historical past in Tbilisi begins in 1935, when Tamaz’s grandfather, Amiran Somkhishvili, purchased land within the Elia space, in considered one of Tbilisi’s historic neighborhoods. The grandfather Amiran, constructed the home along with Tamaz’s grandmother, Mariam Kavtaradze. Tamaz’s father Valerian was 5 years outdated after they moved into a brand new home constructed by his grandfather. Later, the home was expanded and renovated to fulfill the wants of the rising household. When Tamaz’s father received married, Amiran allotted two rooms with a separate entrance for him. In one of many two rooms there was a hallway, a kitchen, and a laundry space which reworked right into a bed room for the mother and father and sister at night time, whereas the second room served as a bed room the place the 4 brothers slept. Dwelling situations have been tough as there was no water provide in the home, so the household needed to stroll 300 meters from the home for clear water (operating chilly water was solely put in when Tamaz turned six).
Tamaz’s father, a shoemaker, labored in Russia and Ukraine, to earn cash for the household. His return house was at all times eagerly anticipated. He didn’t go to the household usually, primarily on New Yr’s, in addition to through the November and Might holidays. In the summertime, the household traveled to see him.
Tamaz recollects that his mother and father taught him from childhood to be pleasant together with his household and to be sincere and dependable to folks near him. Caring and love for these shut are the primary values that Tamaz has carried all through his life. He believes he has inherited the next traits from his mother and father: he takes the whole lot to coronary heart like his mom and cares for his family members like his father.
Schooling
After graduating from college, Tamaz entered a bachelor’s program on the know-how college of a culinary arts faculty, from which he graduated with honors by an accelerated program after serving within the military. He says that he nonetheless makes use of the information gained at the moment, primarily with respect to the aesthetics and physiological worth of diet. In 1980, Tamaz enrolled within the Tobolsk Pedagogical Institute within the college of physics and arithmetic from which he transferred in his fourth 12 months to Tyumen State College within the college of finance and credit score. The information gained from these years later proved to be very helpful for conducting enterprise. In 2002, Tamaz defended his doctoral dissertation on the subject “Conditions and Sources of Financing Investments in the Development of the Oil Industry” on the Nationwide Academy of Economics and Public Administration beneath the President of the Russian Federation in Moscow.
Military service
Within the fall of 1975, throughout his second 12 months on the know-how college of the vocational culinary college, Tamaz was known as up for army service. He subsequently went to serve alongside his older brother Jemal, who had accomplished his research on the college of chemistry of the vocational college. For the primary six months, the brothers served on the Artillery Bootcamp in Chernovtsy, Ukraine. Tamaz was to be assigned to the sports activities firm after successful a sambo (martial artwork) competitors in Ukraine, however he refused this feature as a way to proceed serving together with his brother. After that, the brothers have been despatched to serve in Czechoslovakia, the place the older brother was appointed deputy platoon commander whereas Tamaz was appointed squad chief. As a graduate of the culinary faculty, Tamaz was instantly provided the place of head chef within the officers’ mess which he declined, stating on the time that he “came to serve in the army, not to cook”. Nearly all of his army service was spent on the coaching vary. All through this section, articles about him have been twice printed within the newspaper with the title: “Senior Sergeant Somkhishvili at the firing range.”
The military taught Tamaz many helpful abilities. Throughout his two years of service, he grew to become a completely grown unbiased man and realized to face up for himself.
Beginning a profession
The director of the culinary faculty that Tamaz graduated from inspired him to take part in a distinguished Komsomol development challenge on the time and embark on a Komsomol journey to Siberia, particularly to the Tyumen area. His activity was to arrange the meals and important items provides for the employees concerned within the development of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod most important fuel pipeline. This endeavor introduced a probably profitable alternative starting from 600 to fifteen hundred rubles per thirty days, relying on the character of the work and specialization. In October 1978, Tamaz, collectively together with his childhood pal and classmate Givi Guishvili, traveled to Tyumen, the place they have been assigned to the Uvat district on the Demyanskoe station within the taiga forest alongside the pipeline development path to Chebuntan. There, Tamaz started his profession within the labor procurement division the place he shortly rose to change into the director. As soon as every week, he flew by helicopter to Tobolsk and submitted requests for provides required for the fuel pipeline staff: meals, garments, constructing supplies, and so forth. In a brief interval, he made beneficial connections throughout numerous provide bases (business, meals, industrial items, development supplies), which have been necessary through the Soviet period. The dwelling situations through the development of the fuel pipeline have been very harsh; in winter, the temperature would drop to minus 50 Celsius, and shortly, solely two remained from the unique staff: Tamaz and Beridko Tavshavadze. Tamaz urged transferring to Tobolsk, the place he received a job as an administrator at a restaurant known as “Irtysh,” working for his acquaintance Nikolay Doev, whereas Beridko discovered a job at a beer corridor. Whereas working for Doev, Tamaz met Alexander Sheller, who was then managing the town’s most profitable new café-restaurant, “Vstrecha.” In 1981, along with Alexander Scheller, Tamaz opened the primary bar in Tobolsk. On the finish of 1982 Tamaz began work as supervisor of the restaurant “Druzhba.”
Olympic shirts
Cash was at all times laborious to return by. Tamaz regarded for tactics to earn a dwelling to help his household and took on any job obtainable. Previous to the 1980 Olympics within the Soviet Union, Olympic symbols appeared in all places. Tamaz, with a watch for stunning clothes, trusted his enterprise instincts and determined to arrange the manufacturing of shirts with Olympic emblems. To arrange the shirt manufacturing operation, he wanted to file for a patent. Very quickly, a patent was secured beneath the title of his pal’s father, a participant within the Second World Warfare. After making preparations with tailors, he bought a chopping machine and an overlock stitching machine, and acquired calico and colourful materials in Moscow. The shirts have been immensely common so the enterprise proved profitable in Tyumen. In reality, he managed to earn as a lot as the worth of three cooperative four-room residences in Soviet instances.
Automotive accident
In 1984 Tamaz’s father Valerian Amiranovich got here to Tyumen to the regional hospital for a checkup. Tamaz arrived to go to him in his private automotive – a brand new mannequin six Zhiguli. Whereas driving again from Tyumen to Tobolsk within the rain, close to the village of Zashchitino, whereas turning a nook, Tamaz’s automotive hit a pothole on the facet of the highway. The automotive skidded whereas Tamaz tried to steer, however he ended up crashing into an oncoming dump truck. Tamaz broke some cervical vertebrae, however he recovered fairly shortly attributable to his athletic coaching. This was the one sick go away he took in his total life. After his restoration, the pinnacle of the administration of the Uvat district of the Tyumen area, Yuri Olegovich Svyatsekevich, invited Tamaz to go the general public catering division.
Enterprise throughout restructuring
Within the late 80s interval of restructuring, particularly in 1987, a bundle of resolutions was adopted permitting for the institution of cooperative companies. Tamaz obtained a proposal from Arkady Yelfimov, chairman of the Tobolsk Metropolis Govt Committee, to arrange non-public cooperatives. That is how the buying and selling and buying cooperative and restaurant ‘Kolkhida’ got here into being. In an effort to provide the cooperative, two Kamaz vehicles with fridges have been bought to move melons, fruits, and greens from the Central Asian republics, in addition to berries and fish from Siberia. Quickly after, Tamaz moved to Tyumen, the place he bought a brand new restaurant known as “Druzhba” reverse the bus station on Permyakov Avenue. Rapidly establishing the enterprise and realizing that the restaurant’s incomes potential was restricted by the variety of seats, Tamaz started to consider how one can improve income. He determined to remodel the restaurant right into a pastry store specializing within the manufacturing of desserts, primarily specializing in the favored “Ptichye Moloko” (Fowl’s Milk) cake. Being a meals technologist by coaching, Tamaz realized that pastry manufacture can be a worthwhile enterprise. Regardless of the scarcity of merchandise obtainable solely with ration playing cards—resembling sugar, butter, and eggs—Tamaz took the chance of changing the restaurant corridor right into a manufacturing workshop. Tamaz’s brother Anzor grew to become the supervisor of the brand new enterprise. Having purchased the required tools for the brand new manufacturing facility, the query arose: the place to get sugar.
On the Ministry of Commerce of Ukraine in Kyiv Tamaz negotiated and contracted for provides of sugar, however to adjust to formalities, a letter from the Fundamental Commerce Administration of the Tyumen area can be required. So, Tamaz flew to Tyumen and, after three days, obtained the corresponding letter from the Fundamental Commerce Administration of the Tyumen area, then returned to Kyiv. He then held conferences with the administrators of sugar factories throughout Ukraine, who had obtained directives from the Ministry of Commerce of Ukraine for the cargo of sugar for Tamaz’s cooperative enterprise “Druzhba,” thereby securing 5,000 tons of sugar. Warehouses in Tyumen and the Sverdlovsk area have been rented to retailer the massive volumes of sugar. Thus, a brand new confectionery store was opened in Tyumen the place the wonderful Fowl’s Milk cake was ready. The delicacy was in nice demand so income poured in. Tamaz labored nonstop, particularly having fun with Sundays when nobody disturbed or distracted him from his work.
Oil
In 1991 Tamaz had a lucky assembly with Viktor Dolgov, Deputy President of Lukoil Firm Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov. Dolgov was then accountable for opening a Lukoil department in Tyumen. After the opening of the Tyumen department of “Lukoil-Tyumen,” a three way partnership was registered between “Lukoil-Tyumen” and Tamaz beneath the title CJSC “Lukoil S” (“Lukoil Service”). Tamaz grew to become the proprietor of the corporate and its basic director. After opening the corporate, Tamaz acquired a number of cellular petrol stations. So, in parallel with the extremely worthwhile confectionery enterprise, he entered the oil enterprise. He proceeded to buy crude oil, course of it on the Perm Oil Refinery, and promote the ensuing petroleum merchandise. In 1993, recognizing the successes of the Tyumen department, Vagit proposed that Tamaz create the corporate “Lukoil Market.” Thus, Tamaz grew to become a co-founder and business director of the brand new firm, which targeted on supplying the cities of Langepas, Uray, and Kogalym with client items and meals merchandise, primarily sourced from France, Germany, and the Netherlands.
Rosnefteexport CJSC
In 1994, the corporate Rosnefteexport CJSC was established, with Tamaz proudly owning 15%, Lukoil 35% and Rosneft 50%. Tamaz grew to become the final director of the brand new firm, whose most important space of focus was coordinating oil provides to the Belarusian refineries at Mozyr and Novopolotsk, the place oil from Rosneft and Lukoil was processed, along with the additional sale of petroleum merchandise. After a 12 months, it grew to become clear that Rosneft was not totally engaged within the growth of the joint firm, so Tamaz determined to purchase out the 50% fairness owned by Rosneft. The corporate remains to be efficiently conducting enterprise, buying oil, processing it on the Omsk, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod, and Ryazan refineries, promoting a part of it on the Russian market whereas the remaining is exported by buying and selling corporations Vitol and Glencore.
Safety Service
Within the early 90s, the tough financial state of affairs within the nation provoked a fancy drawback of widespread prison exercise. In consequence, large enterprise had a have to create buildings accountable for safety. And Tamaz’s enterprise was no exception. In 1993, Tamaz moved to Moscow and started to determine an efficient service that might help his enterprise and reply to rising threats. Vladimir Pavlovich Dmitriev was invited to go the safety service, having beforehand been instrumental within the institution of the Fundamental Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Inner Affairs of the Russian Federation. He held the place of deputy head of that company. The efficient work of its personal safety service has enabled the Closed Joint Inventory Firm “Rosnefteexport” to flourish.
Rosnefteexport CJSC and debt redemption
Within the nation’s tough financial state of affairs of that point, debt delinquency was an enormous drawback. Agricultural corporations have been unable to pay for wanted petroleum merchandise; consequently, oil producers couldn’t settle their money owed with power corporations for electrical energy consumed. Thus seeing a possibility, on the finish of 1995, Tamaz started to purchase out the money owed of oil corporations to power corporations, particularly the money owed of Lukoil and Nizhnevartovskneftegaz to Tyumenenergo, which was then headed by Valentin Fedorovich Bogan. Subsequently, a contract was made with Surgutgazprom, led at the moment by Yury Ivanovich Vazhinin, to purchase out the money owed owed by Tyumenenergo for fuel provided to the Surgut GRES.
Money owed have been bought at vital reductions and in installments.
The scheme was complicated, with a very powerful facet being the protection of Lukoil’s electrical energy prices by crude oil funds, which amounted to 250,000 tons per thirty days.
The chain of money owed regarded like this: oil producers owed power corporations, power corporations owed fuel producers, fuel producers owed transport corporations, and so forth. And every provided a reduction starting from 12% to 18% of the total debt. At the moment, everybody had items, however there was little cash, so these corporations welcomed the debt swap. Following Lukoil was Nizhnevartovskneftegaz whose oil manufacturing was 60% decrease than that of Lukoil, however electrical energy prices have been nearly the identical attributable to the truth that the water content material of the extracted fluid by its wells was as much as 93%, so water needed to be injected again into the reservoir utilizing compressor stations.
Efficiently implementing a debt buyout scheme, Tamaz quickly acquired a controlling stake within the Odessa Oil Refining Plant from Alexander Zhukov (Synthesis Firm). Every month, Tamaz despatched as much as 250,000 tons of oil for processing, a part of which was offered on the Ukrainian market, whereas the bulk was exported.
Oil manufacturing
In 1999, Tamaz determined to interact within the difficult enterprise of oil extraction so he established two corporations: “Tomsk Oil” and “Danao Engineering.” He assembled a staff of specialists together with geologists, technologists, engineers, and mechanics. The staff included Yuriy Anastasievich Bratishko, the manager director of the primary American-Russian three way partnership, Polar Daybreak; Vladimir Mikhailovich Ignatenko, basic director of Megionneftegaz; and Marat Midhatovich Arslanov, deputy basic director of the Tobolsk Oil and Chemical Plant for capital development, who introduced alongside severe specialists in exploration, growth, and oil extraction. The corporate “Tomsk Oil” efficiently discovered reserves of 16 million tons of oil and 11 billion cubic meters of fuel at its two oil fields within the Tomsk area: “Verkhne-Salatskoye” and “Yuzhno-Mildzhisnoye.” In simply two years, an enormous infrastructure was created within the impenetrable taiga forests and swamps, together with a 70-kilometer oil pipeline, a 40-kilometer highway, 17 wells, a central oil preparation facility, a gas-piston energy station with a capability of three MW, in addition to lodging for 50 folks, a restore and mechanical store, an oil depot, a laboratory, and a fuel station. Gear and constructing supplies have been delivered by massive barge alongside the Ob River. It was essential to await the spring flooding of the small river Nyurolyka, which allowed for navigation over a thousand kilometers to the oil discipline utilizing small barges. The final contractor was “Stroitransgaz,” whereas within the south, it was “Obneftestroy.” The contractor was Urengoyspetsstroy. Everybody labored cohesively and shortly.
In parallel with the event of the Tomsk discipline, Tamaz carried out exploratory geological surveys within the Nenets Autonomous Okrug within the northern a part of the Arkhangelsk area on licensed land by the corporate “Danao Engineering,” the place Yuriy Anastasevich Bratishko served as the final director. The stream fee of the properly within the Nenets Autonomous Okrug was 5-7 instances that of the “Tomskaya Neft” properly. The fields have been positioned within the permafrost zone, which made it not possible to put the pipeline underground. Due to this fact, engineers laid the pipes above floor on particular helps. The corporate confirmed oil reserves of 35 million tons. The depth of the primary properly was 4,878 meters, whereas the day by day stream fee was 280 tons in comparison with 30 tons from the “Tomskaya Neft” properly, which reached a depth of two,750 meters.
In 2004, Tamaz efficiently applied a brand new enterprise thought by establishing the corporate “Regionenergo gas” for the development and operation of gas-piston energy vegetation utilizing related petroleum fuel (APT: fuel misplaced through the extraction course of). Energy vegetation have been thus constructed within the territory of Lukoil’s oil discipline to provide and provide electrical energy to grease corporations. Tamaz signed a contract with Jenbacher (owned by Normal Electrical), and in simply over a 12 months, he constructed a gas-piston energy plant with a capability of 36 megawatts utilizing Jenbacher gas-piston items and distribution gadgets with Siemens automation.
Being within the oil enterprise, Tamaz began excited about environmental points a lot sooner than his colleagues. Thus, in March 2006 he was the primary in Russia to signal an settlement with the World Financial institution, represented by Kristalina Georgieva (present Managing Director of the Worldwide Financial Fund), which supplied for the discount of dangerous emissions (APT) and greenhouse gasses into the ambiance in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol.
In 2005, Tomskaya Neft was offered to RussNeft, owned by Mikhail Gutseriev, and DanaoEngineering was offered to Lukoil.
Constructing in Moscow
In 2006, the Moscow Authorities issued a decree on the design and development of a multifunctional constructing on Kosygina Avenue. From 2008 to 2010 (1 12 months 8 months), Tamaz constructed the elite workplace and residential complicated often known as ‘Family House’ with an space of 29,000 sq. meters in classical type. Tamaz’s enterprise in Russia led to 2010 with the completion of this challenge.
Enterprise in Georgia
Again house in Georgia, Tamaz based the corporate, “AirplaneTechnics.” Vincenzo Morelli, with 35 years’ expertise at “Lufthansa Technik”, was invited to be the chief supervisor. Inside 10 months, a upkeep middle for civil aviation was constructed at Tbilisi Airport, designed to service Boeing and Airbus civil aviation plane.
Tamaz later made a strategic choice to determine an Aviation Faculty beneath the motto “For the Success of Tomorrow.” Its purpose was to supply the youth of Georgia with the chance to obtain high-quality coaching throughout the framework of an internationally acknowledged program, resulting in certification for upkeep of civil aviation in worldwide airways.
The faculty subsequently signed an settlement with the licensed European Aviation Security Company “INSTITUTO SCOLASTICO SAN CARLO,” positioned within the metropolis of Verona, Italy, beneath which a joint coaching program was launched in Tbilisi.
35 college students who have been despatched to Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Dubai, and Kazakhstan to realize sensible abilities, participated within the coaching program.
Previous to the COVID-19 pandemic, the corporate was profitable, working with aviation corporations around the globe.
Throughout the pandemic, the corporate’s operations, like many different airline-related operators, declined considerably.
Companies in the present day
Tamaz is continuous to develop necessary areas of enterprise, resembling metallurgy (ferrochrome), with particular consideration to initiatives within the discipline of latest applied sciences and telecommunications.
Charity
Tamaz bought the church for the Georgian Orthodox Church in London in 2009. He’s additionally one of many largest patrons of St Andrew’s College of Georgia of the Patriarchate of Georgia.
Working as a sports activities official
From 2017 to 2021, Tamaz served because the president of the Nationwide Federation of Sporting Capturing of Georgia. Capturing sports activities, together with martial arts, have at all times been one of many most important sources of medals for Georgia in world championships and the Olympics. In 2017, Tamaz additionally constructed a European-level capturing membership in Tbilisi, that includes armories, capturing ranges, and trendy infrastructure for athletes.
Hobbies
Tamaz has had a ardour for pistol and rifle capturing since his youth. He additionally achieved knowledgeable stage of talent in sambo and judo along with enjoying tennis.