Dmitry Pumpyansky


Dmitry A. Pumpyansky is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the owner and chairman of OAO TMK, a Russian global manufacturer of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry.

Early life

Pumpyansky graduated from the Kirov Ural Polytechnic Institute in 1986, and earned a Candidate of Sciences, and a Doctor of Science.

Career

Pumpyansky started as a metals trader, then ran several metal factories, then took over the Sinarsky Pipe Factory.
Pumpyansky joined OAO TMK in 2002. Together with fellow billionaires Sergei Popov and Andrey Melnichenko, they bought the company, and he bought them out in 2006, becoming the 100% owner. He is the chairman of TMK.
awards the 4th Degree Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"" to Pumpyansky, 31 July 2014

Personal life

Pumpyansky is married, with one child, and lives in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
He owns the 236-foot megayacht Axioma.
Pumpyansky is on the list of 96 "oligarchs" in Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, passed into US law in August 2017.