????這是我首次與一位俄羅斯億萬(wàn)富翁會(huì)面。地點(diǎn)是在紐約喜來(lái)登酒店（Sheraton New York Hotel）一間毫無(wú)特色的會(huì)議室，在由兩排會(huì)議室組成的一個(gè)長(zhǎng)走廊的盡頭。俄羅斯鋼鐵富豪、謝韋爾鋼鐵公司（Severstal）（2011年收入為150億美元）的首席執(zhí)行官阿列克謝?莫爾達(dá)索夫正在該酒店出席一個(gè)鋼鐵行業(yè)會(huì)議，他也是俄羅斯在美國(guó)的最大投資者之一。莫爾達(dá)索夫的公關(guān)人員提醒我說(shuō)，他與其他惹人注目的俄羅斯行業(yè)寡頭截然相反。他不收藏游艇，也不買美國(guó)棒球隊(duì)，他支持的是家鄉(xiāng)切列波韋茨當(dāng)?shù)氐囊恢髑蜿?duì)，他的父母曾在切列波韋茨的一家大型鋼鐵廠工作，如今該廠已被謝韋爾鋼鐵公司納入旗下。

????莫爾達(dá)索夫的助手說(shuō)，在他難得不提到數(shù)字、戰(zhàn)略或業(yè)務(wù)時(shí)，也會(huì)展現(xiàn)出另一種激情，即興吟誦幾句爛熟于胸的俄羅斯詩(shī)歌。

????莫爾達(dá)索夫出現(xiàn)時(shí)身穿藍(lán)色西服套裝，打著一條松散的藍(lán)色領(lǐng)帶，用有力的握手來(lái)迎接我。他說(shuō)著流利但有濃重口音的英語(yǔ)，這是他在英國(guó)諾森比亞大學(xué)（Northumbria University）讀商科時(shí)學(xué)到的。46歲的莫爾達(dá)索夫身材修長(zhǎng)，一頭棕發(fā)干凈利落，看起來(lái)很年輕。事實(shí)上他從低級(jí)財(cái)務(wù)經(jīng)理起步，到1996年30歲時(shí)就已掌管謝韋爾鋼鐵，通過(guò)收購(gòu)鋼鐵、采礦和煤炭公司構(gòu)建起了一個(gè)集團(tuán)企業(yè)。據(jù)報(bào)道，他的個(gè)人凈資產(chǎn)值已超過(guò)180億美元。

????2004年，莫爾達(dá)索夫成為率先在美國(guó)投資的俄羅斯大公司之一：謝韋爾鋼鐵收購(gòu)了位于密西根州迪爾伯恩、具有傳奇歷史的Rouge鋼鐵廠。“當(dāng)時(shí)美國(guó)鋼鐵廠的狀況還不如經(jīng)過(guò)技改的俄羅斯鋼鐵廠?！蹦獱栠_(dá)索夫說(shuō)，“許多技術(shù)已有150年的歷史。這些鋼鐵廠存在投資不足的問(wèn)題已有很多年?！绷硗?，和高爐年久失修一樣嚴(yán)重的問(wèn)題還有工人士氣低落?！叭藗兌家詾镽ouge會(huì)破產(chǎn)，因此有很多焦慮情緒。企業(yè)文化甚至比俄羅斯還糟。同時(shí)，工作條例也問(wèn)題多多?！?/p>

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????It was my first encounter with a Russian billionaire. The setting was a nondescript meeting room, down a long, bland hallway of meeting rooms, at the Sheraton New York Hotel, where Alexey Mordashov was attending a steel industry conference. His press people had cautioned that Mordashov, Russia's leading steel magnate as chief of Severstal (2011 revenues: $15 billion) and one of his nation's biggest investors in the U.S., is the antithesis of the flamboyant Russian oligarch. He eschews collecting yachts or U.S. basketball franchises, and instead supports the local hockey team in his hometown of Cherepovets, where his parents labored in the giant steel mill Severstal now owns.

????On an infrequent break from talking numbers, strategy and business, his lieutenants say, Mordashov displays another passion by breaking into a recital of the Russian poems he knows by heart.

????Mordashov, attired in a blue suit and loosely-knotted blue tie, greets me with a crunching handshake worthy of a welder. He speaks fluent if heavily accented English learned as a business student at Northumbria University in Britain. At 46, Mordashov is trim and youthful-looking with neatly-cropped brown hair. Indeed, after starting as a low-level finance manager, he rose to head Severstal in 1996 at age 30, building a conglomerate by purchasing steel, mining and coal companies. His net worth reportedly exceeds $18 billion.

????Mordashov became the one of the first major Russian investors in the U.S. when Severstal purchased the legendary Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, in 2004. "Steel plants in the U.S. were in worse shape than the Russian plants we renovated," says Mordashov. "A lot of the technology was 150 years old. They'd suffered from under-investment for many years." Worker morale, he adds, was as big a problem as decaying furnaces. "People were expecting Rouge to go bankrupt, so there was a lot of anxiety. The corporate culture problem was even worse than in Russia. And at the same time, the work rules were more difficult."