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  1. Being prepared for any changes

    Marina Medvedeva, Member of the Management Board – Managing Director at SIBUR, talks to us about her choice of path in life, love of collecting, and drive. Choosing a path in life As a teenager, I really wanted to be an archaeologist. I read history books about excavations of the Egyptian pyramids or artefacts discovered in ancient Mayan settlements. But real archeology is about constant trips, expeditions, which, although very fascinating, mean you have to live in challenging field conditions...

  2. Team performance

    Alexander Kharkovsky, Director for Sales and Technical Service at BIAXPLEN, speaks about vocation, friendship and a rowdy childhood. My childhood My childhood was like that of many Soviet children. It was exciting and there were a lot of risks that I definitely won’t allow my children to take. But it was not so much adventurism as it was the environment in which we had to live, grow and study. Although the environment was rather rowdy, I managed to receive a gold medal for my school achievements...

  3. Success is an elusive goal

    Alexander Petrov, Member of the Management Board – Managing Director at SIBUR, spoke to us about life’s choices, success drivers and helping people. On the chemistry behind choices I studied at a physics and maths specialised high school. It had two key streams: chemistry/biology and physics/maths. I chose the latter. At the time, biology and chemistry seemed like quite abstract sciences to me. A year and a half before I finished high school, I started to choose between universities – not consciously...

  4. To achieve a goal, you must change the world

    Sergey Grinko, Director, Production Support, talks about “breaking the mould”, craving adventure, and the ability to be happy. On choosing a profession I grew up in Nizhnevartovsk, where I went to kindergarten and school. During high school, on the advice of a teacher, I also attended and graduated fr om the school of physics and technology at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). I regularly took part in and won maths and physics contests. But I did not have a strong passion...