Manasir was born on 12 December 1965 in
Amman. He attended the
Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University. When he was a student, he began purchasing and selling computers and vehicles. Soon after, he moved on to trading yellow phosphorus, wood, and oil products. In 1994, he bought a construction firm in
Tyumen to construct houses for Gazprom workers. In 1996, he founded
Stroygazconsulting (SGK) () which develops oil and gas condensate fields, constructs and overhauls pipelines and roads and is one of the largest contractors of
LUKOIL,
Transneft, the
Federal Road Agency of the
Ministry of Transport in Russia and the
Alexei Miller associated firm
Gazprom and its subsidiaries. Beginning in at least 2008, Ziyad Manasir through his firm Stroygazconsulting and its contract to construct the Moscow to Minsk toll road, which is also known as
Belarus or
M1 in Russia, is closely linked to
Dmitry Lebedev,
Yuri Milner,
Nikolai Shamalov,
Yuri Kovalchuk and the
Bank Rossiya which is closely associated with
Vladimir Putin and his inner circle especially
Konstantin Nikolaev,
Arkady Rotenberg,
Igor Rotenberg, the Rotenberg's representative Georgy Koryashkin (),
Mostotrest,
N-Trans,
Igor Levitin,
Gennady Timchenko,
Alexander Grigoryev through his daughter Olga Grigoryeva and others. In 2014, Manasir sold 74.1% of SGK shares to
Ruslan Baysarov. He stated that he has many more friends in Russia than in Jordan. ==Personal==