Nikolai Alexandrovich Smolensky , (born 11 June 1980), is a Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 banker and businessman and current owner of British sports-car manufacturer TVR

TVR

thumb|right|240px|TVR No.2, the oldest surviving TVR, located at [[Lakeland Motor Museum, Newby Bridge, Cumbria]]TVR was an independent British manufacturer of sports cars. Until 2006 it was based in the English seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire, but has since split up into several smaller...

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Smolensky is the son of businessman Alexander Smolensky

Alexander Smolensky

Alexander Pavlovich Smolensky was the founder and president of one of the largest private banks in Russia - Bank Stolichny which collapsed in the 1998 Russian financial crisis wiping out its investors' savings. When asked what he owed his investors he replied: "dead donkey ears"...

, the former head of large Russian bank Agroprombank/SBS-Agro-Bank which collapsed in 1998. He is an associate of fellow Russian businessman Roman Abramovich

Roman Abramovich

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian businessman and the main owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC.In 2003, Abramovich was named Person of the Year by Expert, a Russian business magazine. He shared this title with Mikhail Khodorkovsky...

, and due to his wealth, youth and his oligarch father, has been dubbed in the press as the "baby oligarch".

Raised as “a sworn enemy of communism”, according to his father, Smolenski was educated in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 and England

England

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. After his father's bank SBS-Agro collapsed in 1998, Alexander launched a new banking group, First OVK. In 2003, this was handed to Nikolai, who declared it would triple in size to 1,500 branches. Two months later, he sold the business for an estimated £80m to Rosbank

Rosbank

Rosbank is a Russian commercial bank that was founded in 1993. It is the 8th biggest bank in Russia by assets and is a member of the french group Société Générale. Its headquarters are in Moscow....

, a member of Interros

Interros

Interros is a Russian conglomerate controlled by Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin with large stakes in mining, metals, energy, finance, retail, real estate and other sectors...

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On 27 July 2004 Smolenski, claiming Greek

Greece

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/British citizenship, bought troubled British carmaker TVR. He also has connections with Italian motorbike manufacturer Benelli

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