This book tells about the financial, professional, intellectual and social evolution of the masterminds and the first persons of the investment and banking industry, as well as its clients. The personal history of each of the project’s heroes helps to reestablish the history of the professional community.

At the same time, these concentrated biographies tell readers about business and ethical norms, profit margins, external and internal incentives, and rules of the game in the PB & WM industry, its possible future and the future of the entire Russian business elite.