Vladimir Vinogradov

Vladimir Viktorovich Vinogradov (Russian Владимир Викторович Виноградов; 19 September 1955 — 29 June 2008) was the owner and president of Inkombank, one of the largest banks in 90s' Russia. Considered one of Russia's oligarchs, he was ranked 12th in the list of the top 20 richest Russians in 1996. His bank underwent bankruptcy following the 1998 Russian financial crisis.

Vladimir Viktorovich Vinogradov was born in 1955 in Ufa, Bashkiria. He lost his father when he was a child, and grew up in modest circumstances. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute with a degree in mechanical engineering. From 1979 until 1985 he worked at the Atommash factory in Volgodonsk as a construction engineer. He took a leading role in the Komsomol, the Communist Youth organisation, and was given the opportunity to continue his studies at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, becoming the Promstroybank's chief economist in 1988.

In October 1988, he founded one of Russia's first wholly private commercial bank, Inkombank, also called the Moscow Innovative Commercial Bank, which eventually became Russia's largest private bank. Vinogradov joined Boris Yeltsin’s business advisory council, being one of the so called “seven bankers”, the financial group around Yeltsin. In 1997 he was the vice president of the Association of Russian Bankers.

Both Menatep and Inkombank are believed to have had business relationships with Bruce Rappaport.

In April 1992 Vinogradov declared his support for Moscow's Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the city government, defending them from accusations of corruption. The declaration was endorsed by other figures on the financial scene, including Vladimir Gusinsky, Leonid Nevzlin and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who formed an influential economic group known as PPI, which Vinogradov led from 1993. Although one of Yeltsin's supporters in the years after the October 1993 crisis and an adviser to the Economics Ministry, Vinogradov criticised the government in 1995 of following too rigid an economic policy and said that the conflict in Chechnya was damaging the economy.

From 1992, Edmond Safra's Bank of New York held Inkombank's correspondent bank accounts and, according to Natasha Gurfinkel Kagalovsky, a banker with the London office of the Bank of New York who held a power of attorney or a "general mandate" for Inkombank through March 1998 which was signed by Vladimir Vinogradov who was the chairman of Inkombank when the general mandate was established, Inkombank was the "largest and most active commercial relationship" with the Bank of New York in a letter on 23 April 1996.

Igor Komarov worked at Inkombank in the 1990s.

According to Giovanni de Gennaro who was the Deputy Director of the Italian National Police, Boris Yakubovich (Russian: Борис Якубович), an Inkombank banker, was killed in July 1993 so that the Italian mafia could gain a stake in the Inkombank branch in St. Petersburg.