Water Fed Pole in Russia

In February this year, Vadim Bokhanovitch of MoemGorod started the first water fed pole window cleaning service in Saint Petersburg, 370 miles north of Moscow. Vadim also advertises the cleaning of yachts and aircraft in Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad region. He chose Gardiner pole systems to use in his business & now supplies them with traditional window cleaning equipment to Russian window cleaners. The pricing set up for cleaning windows & facades is 30 rubles per square meter with a minimum order of 1200 rubles ($45).

The company holds many prestigeous local contracts with Petrokommerts bank, Ekonatsbank & Severgaz bank besides many others. More pictures of the company at work can be found here & their wfp van installation team at work here with their yacht cleaning service here.

Russian Window Cleaner Cleans Up!

Mikhail Fridman, 43, is married with two children and has a net worth of US$20.8 billion. He is ranked 20 on 2008 Forbes rich list. He started life as a window washer and later founded Alfa Group in 1990s with college friends and now fellow billionaires. The group is a conglomerate with oil, retail, telecom and banking interests. Altimo is the charity arm of Alfa Group and specialises in telecommunications investments in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and Asia. Its asset portfolio is worth $30 billion. He is an astonishingly nice man in conversation - a youthful 38, and by far the most diffident and least sinister figure among the 20 or so tycoons who dominate Russian big business. His latest deal has brought him a star quality even within that elite: his Alfa group and its partners have just sold half an oil company to BP for $6.75bn, the biggest investment in Russia ever by a foreign company. Window-cleaning and small trading yielded the capital for a commodity business and the start-up of Alfa Bank, now the largest private bank in Russia.