Sergei Katsiev
Sergei Katsiev is a Russian billionaire and retail businessman.
Early life
Katsiev was born in Voznesensk, Ukraine. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Moscow Institute of International Relations.Career
After the fall of Soviet Union, he worked in a government trade mission to the Netherlands. When he returned to Russia, he headed Mercury Tobacco Corporation, a company owned by Igor Kesaev.In 1998 he founded his own company, Megapolis. In 2006 these two companies merged, and Megapolis is now the largest tobacco retailer in Russia.
In 2022 Katsiev and his partners bought out the Russian assets of the British tobacco company Imperial Brands.