others have attracted capacity crowds to Olimpiyskiy. Other activity Shumkov was a co-owner of the world’s biggest platinum deposit Norilsk-1 (Russian Platinum). Philanthropy Shumkov’s charity fund offers support to legal entities and to individuals in the domains of education, sports, scientific research, and culture. By means of his charity fund, Shumkov subsidized the construction and instrumentation of the two situation centers of legal initiatives at Lomonosov Moscow State and Kutafin Moscow State Law universities. The fund also financed the modern equipment at the facilities of the legal clinic of Saint Petersburg State University. In 2015 all Russian Greco-Roman, freestyle, and female wrestling winners of the First Baku 2015 European Games received prize money from Shumkov’s charity fund. Shumkov’s charity fund’s events and fundraisers attracted the business elite, chief executives of international and Russian corporations, politicians, and public figures from the cultural sphere, among these have been; Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Tony Blair, Lucy Churchill Corinna Zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, Natalia Vodianova, Valery Gergiev, the art director of the Mariinsky Theatre; and heads of such news agencies as Associated Press, France Press, Deutsche Welle, Kyodo News and the Xinhua. Death On 4 December 2015 Shumkov was found hanged on his tie in his apartment in Moscow. He was 43. References External links - website of Association of Lawyers of Russia (ALRF) V.V.Putin briefed on Digital University project at Far East Federal University 1972 births Russian businesspeople in metals Russian billionaires 2015 suicides Suicides by hanging in Russia Suicides in Moscow People from Sarapulsky Uyezd Russian lawyers Russian philanthropists