Biography of Elena Prokhorova

We talk about the amazing Belarusian from Vitebsk at the Vitebsk business woman Elena Prokhorova The most frequent word - "reformat". Probably because she herself is in motion all the time. The obsolete discards, the worthless replaces, searches and finds new forms and worthy, working people. However, despite the thirteen successful years in business, my interlocutor is convinced: she was noticed for another reason.

This is the service sector. And yet, if it weren’t for business, its leadership qualities could not open up and she would continue to work in a notary’s office, not known to anyone outside the close circle of family and friends. The story of the family is more like a legend. But this woman was not like that. Too powerful roots, rather sprawling crown. The story of the family is more like a three -hundred -year legend: - In the year, my mother, then still a child, sailed to the raft with her parents and with a cow from Smolensk to the village of Kurino near Vitebsk.

Grandfather folded a house from the raft on the shore of the Dvina. The house turned out to be strong not with wood, but by traditions. The authority of the head of the family was unshakable. If the grandfather said: everyone in such and such a day is in the village, they gathered, throwing any business. We rushed for hundreds of kilometers, ”our heroine smiles. Mother Valentina Vladimirovna inherited this vitality.

In his seventy years, the beauty is still engaged in shaping and swimming, with enthusiasm, enters flowers. Father Nikolai Sergeyevich, as often happens with people in uniform, passed away too early. The entire Soviet Union was sophisticated. That is why she is especially dear to the memory of the decayed great country. History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood, and in the new reality Elena made her choice: "I love Belarus endlessly." These are not just beautiful words.

Probably, five years ago she had enough money to send her only son to study in London, but the young lieutenant Alexander Kozilov had just graduated from the Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus. The most interesting ideas are often born in communication with employees - if anything is ready to protect the homeland with weapons in their hands, ”says Elena. And her calm, even voice does not allow to doubt.

But she perfectly understands what war is. Father passed Afghan, brother - Chechnya ... admits that in the year she was scared: - Husband - retired colonel, the son also chose a military path. I really did not want them to pick up a weapon, but I was ready to stand next to them. Hunting not only carried her, but also determined fate. This is not just a figure of speech. My interlocutor was once engaged in sports orientation and from childhood she has a great weapon.

Fortunately, it uses it only on the hunt - the passion that the parents of the first husband infected. Once the father -in -law invited her to the competitions held by the Belarusian society of hunters and fishermen. In the course of the case, I had to retrain from the audience to the participants, and the hunt not only carried away her, but also determined fate. It began with a small hunting shop, the only one at that time in the Vitebsk region.

Soon, the partners completely went into the production of cheeses more profitable for them, and Elena discovered that she was able to cope herself. Soon, fishing was added to the hunting theme. But Elena did not want to compete with the nearest market, which won at the expense of gray schemes and tax tricks. Her business is originally fundamentally honest. As a memory, as fidelity to friends and principles on the ground floor of the current office, an elegant hunting shop is located.

Elena acquired the building when, in addition to the hunt, she began to engage in real estate. It was a wise decision: to lease, receiving passive income and increasing it for important matters. A banking office in the center of Vitebsk was a cherished goal for her. From the purchase of this centenary house, included in the list of historical and cultural heritage, an energetic growth of business began.

Therefore, construction forests around the perimeter of the house. With the master of the workshop Sergey Kurelenko, a small business empire Prokhorova - about 60 subordinates and several companies. Among them are absolutely "male" production site for the maintenance and repair of agricultural and road construction equipment. Where special equipment broke, we are going there.

We have our own park "Techniciks" and people who professionally perform any work. If necessary, we deliver to the base where there are the necessary machines, repair and send to the customer. Now Prokhorova is engaged in the preparation of design documentation for a service station, where it will be possible to serve any equipment. You ask how a woman, a lawyer by education, copes with engineering tasks?

For this there is a reliable partner who came to her with a ready-made business idea. In addition, she emotionally saw in him her brother, who works as an engineer in the Russian Federation. Alexander Zuev took over the technical part, communication with engineers, locksmiths.

To build everyday work with people, you need to speak the same language and be involved in the production process.Prokhorova chose to give each of her company organizational independence. To save on accountants and lawyers, she created a management company, which became a tangible help in business. In addition, it became possible to provide consulting services.

For example, her company accompanied the merger of two legal entities with an investment volume of about 2.5 million dollars. In Elena’s business, the main thing is not the notorious “man of a wolf man”, but, on the contrary, the closest relationships, friendship and support on each other. Especially, according to the interlocutor, this is typical for women's business.

Although our heroine is sacredly convinced that today to divide the work into male and female is an impassable archaic. And to the question, is it difficult for a woman to live in such a stressful mode, to be in business around the clock, to lead people, is this a female business, answers: - And what is not feminine? Yes, it is not easy, because you are constantly immersed in some processes.

It helps that she is the daughter of a military, a highly organized personality with a clear arrangement of priorities. On the bedside table, a diary, where she writes out not only things, but also ideas that often come at night, but arise in communicating with people. According to Elena, it is more difficult for them to talk to each other. Even being at the start of friends, they lose this thread only because everyone is silent in their direction.

A distinctive feature of the female business, Elena believes, is that women are less fixed with money and care more about people, about society as a whole. The social orientation of the business, first of all, is believed by Elena Prokhorova - the social orientation of the business is very important, ”she said. This is primarily about taxes. If they are underpayment, my interlocutor is convinced, we will have neither education nor medicine.

No one left. On the contrary, there was a feeling that we must urgently unite. But how? The hint came from the director of the Vitebsk Regional Marketing Center Irina Makarenko, who has been in the Presidium of the regional organization of the Belarusian Union of Women of the BSG and was awarded the title of "man of the Year of Vitebsk -" for 20 years. She convinced Elena that it was BSG that allows active, indifferent women to reveal their potential.

And of course, we wanted to become part of something more. The entrepreneurial cell created on the initiative of Elena was the first in the country. Now it has 31 people. The associates of Prokhorova are busy in various fields of business, from small trade and cosmetic services to light and heavy industry. She herself took on the leadership and development of a strategy. Only the active position of creation can change our life for the better.

For three years, we have proved how important the upbringing, education, propaganda of family values, the continuity of generations and faith in good are. According to Prokhorova, participation in the Union enables entrepreneurs to more actively establish interaction with representatives of state bodies, together with them to implement important projects for the state.

This is a new impulse of development, an influx of strength and ideas. While Elena Prokhorova realizes her ideas on the scale of the Vitebsk region. For example, recently she, as a leader in the firing of entrepreneurs, acted as a co -organizer and partner of the final of the regional intellectual tournament of students "Economic Knowledge - the basis of a successful business." The competition gathered the guys from all over the Vitebsk region, and the team from Senno became the winner.

Elena responded to the misfortune of one of the activists of the cell, whose daughter fell into the clutches of drug dealers. The joint efforts of the woman created the project "A New Step into a New Life" and the Public Association "Young Life", in which there are more volunteers. Prokhorova acts as a sponsor of numerous events aimed at protecting children and adolescents from destructive addictions.

Fortunately, that girl managed to save. Leaving the punishment in a correctional colony, she "with an open face" promotes a healthy lifestyle. She already has dozens of cured children's souls. At the meetings of the Vitebsk cell of entrepreneurs there is always a friendly atmosphere but Elena is convinced that it is necessary to join forces on a wider scale, creating an entrepreneurial wing in the BSG.

The idea did not go unnoticed. In March of this year, Prokhorov was invited to participate in the BelTA project “Country Says”, in May she voiced her thought at the First Republican Forum of Women's Energy and Creation Women's Energy and Creation.