The founder of Polyus

The Founder of Polyus is Hazret Sovmen, who was born in 1937 in Afipsip village of Adygeya Autonomous Republic in Krasnodar region.

In 1961, having finished school and his term in the army, Hazret volunteered to work on Kolyma gold mines. Thus he started his career in gold mining as plain worker.

In 1966 Hazret Sovmen was elected chairman of Voskhod gold mining cooperative and in 1969 took the chair in Soyuz cooperative.

In 1980 the government invited Hazret Somen to move to Krasnoyarsk region to head lead Eniseyzoloto mining company and develop gold mining in the area. Soon after that he organized Polyus gold mining cooperative to set up gold mines in the most remote areas of Krasnoyarsk region and even on the Bolshevik island in the Arctic Ocean.

In 1983 Polyus joined Olympiada mine project, the largest in Russia, and in the early 1990 it was reorganized in a closed joint stock company.

In 2002 Hazret Sovmen was elected President of the Adygeya republic and sold his business to Norilsk Nickel.

For his enormous personal contribution to the development of the gold mining industry in Russia Hazret Sovmen was awarded State Order of Honor and State Order for Service to Homeland and other honorary medals.