Alexander Mashkevitch
Kyrgyzstani-Israeli businessman and investor
Alexander Antonovich Mashkevich (Hebrew: אלכסנדר משקביץ; also transliterated Alexandr Mashkevic; Russian: Александр Антонович Машкевич; 23 February 1954 – 22 March 2025) was an Israeli-Kazakh businessman and investor who had major holdings and close political relationships in Kazakhstan. He held both Kazakh and Israeli citizenship.
Mashkevitch enriched himself in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, as he, Patokh Chodiev, and Alijan Ibragimov obtained mineral and gas operations after those operations were privatized in Kazakhstan. They founded the company Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation.
Background
Mashkevich was born in Frunze, Kyrgyz SSR, Soviet Union, on 23 February 1954. His father, Anton, a doctor born in Lithuania, and his mother, Rakhel Yoffe, a lawyer born in Vitebsk, in northern Belarus, were evacuated to Kyrgyzstan in 1941. His family background was Lithuanian Jewish. He was a graduate of Kyrgyz State University, where he studied philology. Mashkevich began his professional life as an academic but became a businessman during the Soviet era of perestroika.
Mashkevich served as president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) until 2011.
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