Rating of the richest people in Russia (26 photos). The richest person in the world Billionaires top 100

Date of writing: 09.10.2023

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In what order did the leaders of the Russian Forbes list change this year and whether there were newcomers among them.

Forbes has compiled the fourteenth ranking of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia. For the vast majority of its participants, 2016 turned out to be a successful year. The total wealth of the 200 richest businessmen increased by $100 billion to $460 billion. To get into the top 25 of the ranking, an entrepreneur must have a wealth of $4.5 billion. A year ago, $3.6 billion was enough for this.

The main drivers for the growth of fortunes of the richest Russian businessmen were the strengthening of the ruble and the favorable situation in the commodity markets. Entrepreneurs whose asset structure is dominated by metallurgical companies have increased their fortunes more than others. The fortune of the main owner of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK) Vladimir Lisin increased by more than $6.8 billion. The assets of Alexey Mordashov, the owner of Severstal, increased in price by $6.6 billion.

Oil, gas and mineral fertilizers have also made good money for the billionaires at the top of the Forbes list. Who is in the top 25 of the Russian ranking this year and what else do they earn from?

1. Leonid Mikhelson
Chairman of the Board of PJSC Novatek
State Source: Gas
Net worth: $18.4 billion
Age: 61 years

City of residence: Moscow
Education: Kuibyshev Institute of Civil Engineering (1977).

First business: since 1987 he headed Kuibyshevtruboprovodstroy, in 1991 he transformed the trust into the private enterprise Nova.
Capital: stake in Novatek (24.76%), Sibur (34.18%).
Figure: Sibur’s net profit according to IFRS in 2016 increased 17.4 times compared to 2015 and amounted to 113 billion rubles.
Deal: in December 2016, the Chinese Silk Road Fund acquired 10% of Sibur for approximately $1.3 billion, the same amount the Chinese company Sinopec paid for the same package a year earlier.
Event: in 2017, he opposed the FAS experiment to liberalize the gas market in a number of regions and proposed transferring the authority to regulate Gazprom tariffs to the Ministry of Energy.
Partners: Gennady Timchenko F 4, Leonid Simanovsky F 78.
Detail: owner of a large development project in the Leningrad region - 510 hectares near Sestroretsk, including 370 hectares of alluvial territory. It is planned to build more than 3 million sq. m. m of real estate.
Charity: heads the V-A-C (Victoria - the Art of Being Contemporary) foundation, named after Victoria’s daughter. The foundation supports contemporary art and provides grants to young artists and curators. In addition, he is an investor in the Victoria gallery in Samara.
Quote: “Adequate tariff regulation and rules that are clear to market participants are necessary. Otherwise, we will be faced with a gas shortage in the foreseeable future" (Kommersant, 2016)

2. Alexey Mordashov
Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Severstal
, tourism, mechanical engineering
Net worth: $17.5 billion
Age: 51 years
Marital status, children: married, six children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute (1988).

First business: in 1992, he was appointed director of finance and economics at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant (ChMK). He entered into the first contracts with traders who sold metal to the West. Having bought a controlling stake in ChMK, he removed director Yuri Lipukhin.
Capital: Severstal (79.2%), TUI (23%), Nord Gold (90.7%), Power Machines (100%).
Figure: over the past five years (2012–2016), he received $2.83 billion in dividends from Severstal.
Deal: Spent more than $500 million in 2016 to increase its stake in TUI.
Event: in May 2015, he resigned from the post of head of Severstal, which he had held since 1996.
Brand: TUI (the largest travel company in the world with a capitalization of almost $8 billion), Utkonos online grocery store.
Partners: together with Yuri Kovalchuk, F 93 owns shares of Rossiya Bank, which is under sanctions, the National Media Group and the T2 RTK Holding group (operating under the Tele2 brand).
Detail: the German company Schmitz Cargobull uses plywood from the Sveza enterprise owned by Mordashov to make floors in its trailers.
Quote: “I prefer to invest in assets that I understand and where I myself can create added value. I'm a strategist, not a portfolio investor" (Bloomberg, 2016)

3. Vladimir Lisin
Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK
Source of wealth: metallurgy, transport
Net worth: $16.1 billion
Age: 60 years

City of residence: Moscow
Education: Siberian Metallurgical Institute (1976).

First business: in the late 1980s, he headed the Soviet-Swiss company TSK-Steel, which traded substandard metal abroad.
Capital: stake in NLMK (84%), transport holding Universal Cargo Logistics (100%).
Transaction: in December 2016, he sold about 1.5% of NLMK shares for $153 million.
Hobbies: sport shooting, hunting. He built the largest sports and shooting complex in Europe, “Fox Hole,” in the Moscow region.
Collection: assembled the world's largest collection of iron castings from the Ural city of Kasli (operating since 1749).
Sports: vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee, president of the Shooting Union of Russia and the European Shooting Confederation (ESC), vice-president of the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF), president of the All-Russian Association of Summer Olympic Sports (VALOS).
Detail: in the Rospatent database, Lisin is listed as the author of new methods for washing a blast furnace, processing steel in a ladle, obtaining a coating on a metal strip, and the owner of a couple of dozen more patents.
Rating: took 7th place in the ranking of Russian billionaires with the highest income in 2016. According to Forbes, Lisin received $820 million.
Quote: “Money only gives you a certain degree of freedom, which is associated with the choice of business, investment, and the choice to do what you want. They don't give anything else, in my opinion. A degree of freedom, nothing more.” (“Snob”, 2016)

4. Gennady Timchenko
Member of the board of directors of Novatek and Sibur

Net worth: $16 billion
Age: 64 years
Marital status, children: married, three children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Leningrad Mechanical Institute (1976)

First business: worked as vice president of the foreign trade organization Kirishineftekhimexport (Kinex), created at the Kirishi Oil Refinery in the Leningrad Region. In 1996, at a privatization auction, together with his partners, he bought out Kinex, from which Gunvor, one of the world's largest oil traders, later grew.
Capital: stakes in Novatek (23.5%), Sibur (14.29%), Stroytransgaz group (31.5%), Transoil (80%).
Figure: Timchenko received $1.5 billion in 2016 from the sale of shares in Gunvor, Petromir and National Media Group, as well as in the form of dividends from Novatek and Sibur.
Event: The State Duma adopted an amendment to the Tax Code in March 2017, allowing Timchenko and other Russians affected by sanctions to pay taxes only abroad. The law has retroactive effect and allows you to refund income taxes paid since 2014.
Partner: Leonid Mikhelson F 1.
Brand: Aquanika water
Citizenship: Finland, Russia
Sports: president of the SKA hockey club, chairman of the board of directors of the KHL, vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee, member of the board of trustees of the Russian Hockey Federation and the board of trustees of the Russian Chess Federation, one of the founders of the Yavara-Neva judo club.
Quote: “Money is money, but I like life here in Russia even more now. I traveled, I didn’t see much in Russia before the sanctions, but now I’m rediscovering the country for myself - I really liked Gorny Altai.” "Rain", 2016

5. Alisher Usmanov
Founder and main shareholder of USM Holdings
Source of wealth: metallurgy, telecommunications, Internet
Net worth: $15.2 billion
Age: 63 years
Marital status, children: married
City of residence: Moscow

First business: in the late 1980s, he organized the Agroplast cooperative, which produced plastic bags.
Capital: the main shareholder (48%) of USM Holdings, which combines assets in the mining industry and metallurgy (Metalloinvest, Baikal Mining Company), telecommunications (Megafon), Usmanov also has shares in media assets (New Media Holding, Publishing House "Kommersant"), development ("Khimki Group") and sports (London Arsenal).
Transaction: in February 2017, Megafon bought a stake in Mail.Ru Group from USM Holdings (15.2% of economic interest and 63.8% of voting rights)
for $740 million
Charity: founded the Arts, Science and Sports charity, which helps sick children, as well as theaters, museums and sports organizations.
Sports: President of the International Fencing Federation. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian fencing team won 7 medals, 4 of them gold, and took 1st overall team place.
Taxes: at the end of 2015, he ceased to be a tax resident of Russia, since he spent less than 183 days in the country. A USM representative told Forbes that over the past few years, Usmanov, as an individual, has paid $350 million in taxes in Russia.
Quote: “Our, my personal, I’m not talking about our corporate charitable activities and sponsorship, my personal charity is many times greater than the tax payments that I made. Therefore, in this sense I am calm. My conscience is clear. Especially in front of my homeland." (“Russia 24”, 2016)

6. Vagit Alekperov
President of NK Lukoil
Source of wealth: oil, investments
Net worth: $14.5 billion
Age: 66 years old

City of residence: Moscow
Education: Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry named after. M. Azizbekova (evening department, 1974).

First business: in the late 1980s he was the general director of the Kogalymneftegaz PA; in 1990–1991 - Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR. In 1992–1993, he founded the oil concern LangepasUrayKogalymneft, on the basis of which OJSC LUKoil was created. Since then he has been president of the oil company. During the privatization process, he became its largest shareholder.
Capital: stake in NK Lukoil (23%).
Figure: $590 million received in 2016 in the form of dividends from Lukoil.
Event: Lukoil planned to acquire a 50.1% stake in Bashneft during privatization, but the deal did not take place. In October 2016, this state-owned stake was bought by the state-owned Rosneft for 330 billion rubles.
Toy: in February 2016, he sold his yacht Galactica for €19.5 million and moved to a new, 70-meter Galactica Super Nova, which in September won at the international Monaco Yacht Show in the categories “best new yacht” and “best interior design” "
Detail: in 2013, he bequeathed his entire stake to his son Yusuf on the condition that he would not have the right to sell or divide this stake. The goal is to provide Lukoil with stability for many years.
Quote: “I grew up in the oil field... In our yard, other than throwing a rope and riding on an [oil] rocking chair, there was no other entertainment in the fifties.” (“Russia 24”, 2016)

7. Mikhail Fridman
Chairman of the Board of Directors of LetterOne Holdings and the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group

Net worth: $14.4 billion
Age: 52 years
Marital status, children: divorced, four children
City of residence: London
Education: Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1986).

First business: in 1988, together with friends from MISiS, he organized the Courier cooperative, which was engaged in delivering food to the population. I made my first big money washing windows.
Capital: the main owner of the LetterOne Holdings group (German oil and gas company Dea, Vimpelcom - 56.2%, Turkcell -13.22%) and the assets of the Alfa Group consortium (Alfa Bank - 90.1%, X5 Retail Group - 48 %, A1, "Rosvodokanal").
Figure: Alfa Group received $14 billion in March 2013 from the sale of its stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft.
Deal: in October 2016, the Alfa Bank group acquired a foreign partner: the Italian UniCredit transferred its bank in Ukraine, Ukrsotsbank, to Alfa in exchange for a 9.9% stake in Alfa Bank BG.
Investments: In 2016, Pamplona Capital Management (engaged in direct investments of LetterOne funds) completed the acquisition of MedAssets, an American technology company that offers solutions to improve the efficiency of healthcare institutions. The transaction amount was $2.75 billion.
Citizenship: Has Israeli citizenship.
Brands: Beeline, Pyaterochka, Perekrestok.
Detail: co-founder of the Genesis Philanthropy Group, a charitable foundation that develops and strengthens Jewish identity among Russian-speaking Jews around the world. Genesis sponsored the creation of a new film (trilogy) by Leonid Parfenov, “Russian Jews.”
Quote: “I am going to donate all my money exclusively to charity. … The worst thing I could do for my children is give them a large sum of money.” (Forbes, 2016)

8. Vladimir Potanin
President of the Interros holding, General Director of MMC Norilsk Nickel
Source of wealth: non-ferrous metallurgy
Net worth: $14.3 billion
Age: 56 years old
Marital status, children: married, five children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: MGIMO (1983)

Capital: basis of wealth - 30.41% shares of Norilsk Nickel, the largest producer of nickel and palladium in the world.
Transaction: at the beginning of 2017, he sold 50% of Rambler & Co to Alexander Mamut F 40, who became the sole owner of the media holding.
Court: at the end of 2013 he divorced his first wife Natalia. In 2015, the Presnensky Court of Moscow divided the property of the ex-spouses as of 2007. The court refused to divide Potanin's stake in Norilsk Nickel between the ex-spouses. The ex-wife plans to appeal this decision.
Conflict: from 2008 to 2012, he participated in the so-called nickel wars and fought with another MMC shareholder Oleg Deripaska F 23 for control of Norilsk Nickel. In 2012, Potanin and Deripaska, through the mediation of Roman Abramovich F 12, signed a settlement agreement.
Charity: The Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation spends about $10 million a year on education, culture and sports. In 2016, the foundation donated part of its collection of contemporary Russian art to the Pompidou Center in Paris - 250 works by sixty artists and sculptors.
Sports: Passionate about hockey. Supports various sports in the regions where Norilsk Nickel operates - cross-country skiing, mini-football, basketball and curling. In 2016, Norilsk Nickel spent more than 2 billion rubles on sports projects.
Quote: “International successes always make us happy, just as our athletes’ victories in competitions make us happy, just as our scientists receive the Nobel Prize or paintings by our artists in the largest museums in the world make us happy. This, in essence, is a legacy of which we can all be proud.” (Forbes, 2016)

9. Andrey Melnichenko
Chairman of the EuroChem Strategy Committee
State Source: Gas
Net worth: $13.2 billion
Age: 45 years

City of residence: Moscow
Education: Russian Economic Academy (1997).

First business: I studied at the physics department of Moscow State University, lived in a student dormitory, where I organized a currency exchange office. MDM Bank grew from a network of exchange offices. In 1997, MDM Bank and Sergey Popov (No. 27) created a company on a parity basis, which in 2000–2002 acquired a number of production assets, on the basis of which SUEK, TMK and Eurochem were created.
Capital: stakes in SUEK (92.2%), Eurochem (90%), Siberian Generating Company (92.2%).
Deal: in December 2016, Eurochem sold its stake in the Murmansk Commercial Sea Port for 8.74 billion rubles.
Figure: $1.3 billion - capital expenditures of Eurochem in 2016. The company is investing in the construction of the Usolsky potash plant (Perm region), the VolgaKaliy project (Volgograd region) and an ammonia production plant in the Leningrad region.
Collection: Impressionist paintings.
Toy: the world's largest sailing yacht A with an estimated value of $500 million, which will be delivered to the owner in late spring 2017.
Taxes: According to Forbes, Melnichenko is not a tax resident of Russia. “He literally lives on his boat,” said a friend of his.
Quote: “I sincerely believe that the main thing is not attendance, but performance. Remember school? There were grades for behavior, for diligence and other grades. At the university and boarding school there were no grades for behavior or diligence; there were grades for academic performance. And this has a deep meaning” (“Vedomosti”, 2012)

10. Viktor Vekselberg
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova Group of Companies
Source of wealth: aluminum, investments
Net worth: $12.4 billion
Age: 60 years
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers, MIIT (1979).

First business: in 1988 he organized a software development cooperative. In 1989, he created the research and production enterprise “KomVek” (“Vekselberg Company”), which made money by exporting copper cable stripped of braid abroad. In October 1990, together with an institute friend, then a US citizen, Leonard Blavatnik, he founded the joint venture Renova.
Capital: UC Rusal (5.66%), Swiss companies Oerlikon (42.6%) and Sulzer (63.4%).
Figure: $7 billion received in March 2013 from the sale of a stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft.
Deal: in 2016, he increased his stake in Bank of Cyprus from 6.2% to 9.3%.
Court: Vekselberg's partner Evgeniy Olkhovik (5% of Renova's shares) and the general director of the T Plus energy holding, part of Renova, Boris Vainzikher, were arrested in September 2016 in the case of large bribes to the former leadership of the Komi Republic, headed by Vyacheslav Gaizer . Since then they have been in jail.
Collection: owns the world's largest collection of jewelry by Faberge, which is exhibited in the businessman's private museum in the Shuvalov Palace in St. Petersburg, on the restoration of which he spent about $40 million.
Detail: in 2015, Renova transferred its Sochi hotel to the Sirius educational center for gifted children, established by the Talents and Success Foundation of cellist Sergei Roldugin.
Quote: “The concept of trust in business is an economic category. If we live in the logic that every entrepreneur is a potential criminal, then this costs the country very dearly.” Vedomosti, 2016.

11. German Khan

Source of wealth: oil, finance, communications, retail
Net worth: $9.3 billion
Age: 55 years
Marital status, children: married, four children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1987).

First business: after college, I started sewing and selling clothes together with Alexander Furman, a future State Duma deputy, in the Alexandrina cooperative. In 1989, he came to Alfa Photo with Mikhail Fridman F 7 and Alexey Kuzmichev F 16, whom he knew from MISiS.
Capital: second after Fridman owner of LetterOne Holdings (Dea; Vimpelcom, 56.2%; Turkcell, 13.22%) and assets of the Alfa Group consortium (Alfa Bank (90.1%), X5 Retail Group (48% ), "A1", Rosvodokanal).
The deal: In March 2015, LetterOne acquired German oil and gas company Dea for €5.1 billion.
Detail: in March 2017, while giving a lecture at the Tyumen Technopark, he announced LetterOne’s intention to acquire a second foreign oil and gas company, now in the United States.

12. Arkady Abramovich
Major owner of investment company Millhouse
Source of wealth: metallurgy, investments
Net worth: $9.1 billion
Age: 50 years
Marital status, children: married, seven children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow Law Academy (2001).

First business: in 1988 he headed the cooperative “Uyut” (production of rubber toys). In the early 1990s, he began trading petroleum products.
Capital: Evraz (31%), Channel One (24%), real estate. Together with Evraz partner Alexander Abramov, F 25 owns 6.28% of the shares of Norilsk Nickel.
Transaction: in 2005, he received $13 billion from the sale of 73% of Sibneft shares to Gazprom.
Sports: since 2003, he has owned the English football club Chelsea. In 2016, Forbes valued the team at $1.66 billion.
Detail: in 2006, he donated 26 hectares of land near Moscow for the construction of the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management. At the time, the site was valued at $52 million.

13. Mikhail Prokhorov
Owner of the Onexim group
Source of wealth: investments
Net worth: $8.9 billion
Age: 51 years
Marital status, children: not married
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow Financial Institute (1989).

Capital: cash from the sale of assets - $5 billion. UC Rusal stake (17%). NBA Brooklyn Nets.
Deal: in 2016, Prokhorov sold 20% of Uralkali to Belarusian businessman Dmitry Lobyak, a classmate of Uralchem owner Dmitry Mazepin F 63. The transaction amount was estimated at $1.6 billion.
Personnel: Dmitry Razumov, CEO of the Onexim group since 2007.
Hobbies: basketball, martial arts.
Charity: in 2004 he founded the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. The total amount of funds allocated to the fund during its operation exceeded 2 billion rubles.
Yachts: Sold the 62-meter superyacht Solemar for €27.5 million in April 2016. He also owns the more expensive 100-meter long Palladium yacht, built in 2010.

14. Viktor Rashnikov
Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC MMK
Source of wealth: iron and steel industry
Net worth: $8.3 billion
Age: 68 years old
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region.
Education: Magnitogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute (1974).

Capital: stake in MMK (87.26%).
Court: Rashnikov's Snapbox company is trying to recover $134 million from the structures of developer Alexander Chigirinsky in Cyprus - its share after the sale of a joint project, the Evolution tower in Moscow City.
Synergy: at the beginning of 2016, MMK assessed the prospects of a merger with competitors - NLMK, Severstal and Evraz.
Toy: in 2015, Rashnikov bought a 140-meter yacht Ocean Victory, which ranks ninth on the list of the largest yachts in the world.
Detail: On December 2, 2016, the Ocean Victory yacht (76 m) previously owned by Rashnikov was arrested in the Netherlands at the request of the Swiss authorities, who are investigating the current owner of the boat, the vice president and son of the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodorin Obiang.

15. Dmitry Rybolovlev
President of AS Monaco Football Club
Source of wealth: investments
Net worth: $7.3 billion
Age: 50 years
Marital status, children: divorced, two daughters
City of residence: Monaco

Capital: cash from the sale in 2010 of stakes in Uralkali (63%) and Silvinit (25%).
Transaction: In March 2017, he auctioned several paintings from his collection, including works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin and René Magritte. When selling them, he lost more than $120 million - that’s how much more the paintings cost Rybolovlev when he bought them through the mediation of the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier. Previously, Rybolovlev lost more than $100 million during the sale of three paintings. He accused Bouvier of fraud and is suing him.
Toys: a house in Hawaii that belonged to actor Will Smith, worth $20 million, a penthouse in Monaco, two islands in Greece, previously owned by billionaire Aristotle Onassis.
Sports: since 2011 - the main owner of the Monaco football club.

16. Alexey Kuzmichev
Member of the Board of Directors of LetterOne Holdings and the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group
Source of wealth: oil, finance, communications, retail
Net worth: $7.2 billion
Age: 54 years
Marital status, children: married, son
City of residence: London
Education: Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1988).

First business: in 1988, together with Mikhail Fridman F 7 (No. 7) and other friends from MISiS, he worked in the Courier and Alfa Photo cooperatives. In 1989, he participated in the creation of the Soviet-Swiss joint venture Alfa-Eco, the first Alfa Group company. In 2006, Alfa-Eco was renamed A1.
Capital: third after Mikhail Fridman and German Khan F 11 (No. 11) shareholder of LetterOne Holdings (Dea; Vimpelcom, 56.2%; Turkcell, 13.22%) and Alfa Group (Alfa Bank (90.1% ), X5 Retail Group (48%), “A1”, Rosvodokanal).
Detail: he is interested in modern art. Together with his wife Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya, director of the charitable project Project Perpetual, he is on the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

17. Andrey Skoch
State Duma Deputy
Source of wealth: metallurgy, telecommunications, Internet, airport
Net worth: $6.9 billion
Age: 51 years
Marital status, children: married, ten children
City of residence: Moscow

First business: in the early 1990s, I met Alisher Usmanov F 5, trying to get a batch of oil for processing at the Moscow Refinery. The deal did not take place, but a relationship began, and subsequently the businessmen became partners.
Capital: share in USM Holdings (30%), Vnukovo Airport (61.5%) (formally, the shares of Deputy Skoch are owned by his father, pensioner Vladimir Skoch).
Income: official declared income in 2015 - 276 million rubles.
Partners: Alisher Usmanov (No. 5), Farhad Moshiri, Ivan Streshinsky (No. 198), Ivan Tavrin F 199.
Politics: since 1999 - State Duma deputy. Member of the International Affairs Committee.
Sports: Honored Trainer of Russia in Sambo and Judo.

18. Sergey Galitsky
General Director of PJSC "Magnit"
Source of wealth: retail
Net worth: $6.8 billion
Age: 49 years old
Marital status, children: married, daughter
City of residence: Krasnodar
Education: Kuban State University (1993).

First business: in 1994 he founded the small wholesale trading company Transasia.
Capital: main shareholder of the Magnit retail chain (35.3%).
Figure: the company has 14,059 stores; over the year the network grew by 1,970 points.
The deal: in April 2016, Galitsky reduced his stake in Magnit’s capital from 38.7% to 35.3% in order to finance personal projects.
Trusted person: Vladimir Gordeychuk - General Director of Tander CJSC (until January 2017), 55 years old. Long-distance navigator, joined Galitsky's company in 1996.
Toy: Embraer Legacy business jet, Quantum Blue yacht.
Sports: owns FC Krasnodar. A stadium with 34,000 seats was built for the club.

19. Iskander Makhmudov
President of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company
Source of wealth: non-ferrous metallurgy, coal, transport
Net worth: $6.5 billion
Age: 53 years
Marital status, children: married, son
City of residence: Moscow

First business: in 1994, I met Andrei Kozitsyn (No. 28), Deputy General Director for Commerce at Uralelectromed, and with him bought shares in the enterprise that became the basis of UMMC.
Capital: stakes in UMMC, Kuzbassrazrezugol, Transmashholding, Kalashnikov Concern.
Partners: Andrey Kozitsyn F 28, Andrey Bokarev F 52.
Toy: yacht Predator (2008, 73 m, 28 knots).
Event: in 2015, he acquired 12.25% of the weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov Concern from Bokarev; now Makhmudov, Bokarev and their partner Alexey Krivoruchko equally own 49% of the company. Private shareholders invested more than 3 billion rubles in the modernization and development of production in two years; in 2015, Kalashnikov became profitable for the first time in seven years - $31 million with revenue of $122 million. In 2016, revenue increased to $241 million

20. Mikhail Gutseriev
Main owner of the Safmar group
Source of wealth: oil, coal, real estate, finance
Net worth: $6.3 billion
Age: 59 years old
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Dzhambul Technological Institute of Light and Food Industry (1981).

First business: in 1988, he created in Grozny one of the first cooperative banks in the USSR, Kavkaz, and the Soviet-Italian joint venture for the production of furniture, Chiital. In 1992, he founded the financial and industrial group BIN in Moscow.
Capital: RussNeft (43%), Neftisa (70%), B&N Bank (35.7%), Eldorado (50%), real estate.
Event: in 2016, the BIN group was renamed Safmar. The name is made up of the first letters of the names of Gutseriev’s parents - Safarbek and Marem.
Deal: in November 2016, the IPO of Russneft took place, during which the Gutseriev family gained $501 million from the sale of 20% of the company’s ordinary shares.
Hobby: writes poetry. Songs based on his poems are performed by Philip Kirkorov, Stas Mikhailov, Valeria, Joseph Kobzon and other popular singers.

21. Suleiman Kerimov
Member of the Federation Council
Source of wealth: investments
Net worth: $6.3 billion
Age: 51 years
Marital status, children: married, three children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Dagestan State University (1989)

Capital: the Kerimov family owns 61.38% of the shares of the Polyus company, Makhachkala International Airport.
Event: in 2016, Polyus Gold was renamed Polyus, 33.62% of the shares were sold, and the proceeds from the sale of $3.6 billion were used to pay off debts.
Transaction: in 2015, he sold the Moscow Hotel, which after reconstruction is called the Four Seasons Hotel Moscow, to Alexey Khotin F 110.
Politics: in 2003–2007, State Duma deputy from the LDPR and United Russia, since 2008 - member of the Federation Council from Dagestan.
Detail: in 2015, he sold his 90-meter yacht Ice to a representative of the clan of the President of Equatorial Guinea, Obiang.

22. Leonid Fedun
Chairman of the Board of Directors of IFD Capital
Source of wealth: oil, finance
Net worth: $6.3 billion
Age: 61 years
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Military Academy named after. F. E. Dzerzhinsky (1984).

First business: I worked part-time as a lecturer for the Knowledge Society. In 1987, he lectured in Kogalym, where he met Vagit Alekperov F 6. In 1995, he created the brokerage company Lukoil-Reserve-Invest, the basis of the future IFD Capital.
Capital: stake in Lukoil (9.8%). Together with Alekperov, he owns the IFD Capital group and Vadim Belyaev’s 19.9% stake in Otkritie Holding OJSC.
Figure: $250 million received over the past year in the form of dividends from Lukoil.
Collection: collects works by Nicholas Roerich.
Sports: since 2003, owns FC Spartak.

23. Oleg Deripaska
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Basic Element, President of UC Rusal
Source of wealth: metallurgy, electricity, finance, airports, auto industry
Net worth: $5.1 billion
Age: 49 years old
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow State University (1993), Russian Economic Academy (1996).

Capital: En+ holding, which owns stakes in the aluminum producer US Rusal and the electric power company Eurosibenergo. Deripaska also controls the GAZ Group (automobiles), Ingosstrakh (finance), Basel Aero (airports in the Krasnodar region) and the Kuban agricultural holding (agriculture).
Deal: in May 2016, Eurosibenergo bought 40% of Irkutskenergo from the state holding Inter RAO for 70 billion rubles.
Charity: Oleg Deripaska’s Volnoe Delo Foundation sponsors the robotics festival “RoboFest”, the all-Russian competition “School Principal”, a private shelter for dogs in Sochi “PovoDog” and other projects.

24. Peter Aven
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alfa Bank banking group
Source of wealth: oil, finance, communications
Net worth: $4.6 billion
Age: 62 years
Marital status, children: widower, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow State University (1977).

First business: in 1993, the former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation created the company “FinPA” (“Finance of Peter Aven”), which made money on transactions with external debts, in particular the debts of India and Ghana, as well as commercial debt of the former USSR.
Capital: is a shareholder of LetterOne Holdings (Dea; Vimpelcom, 56.2%; Turkcell, 13.22%), owns a stake in Alfa Bank (12.4% of shares).
Transaction: in October 2016, the Italian UniCredit transferred its Ukrsotsbank to the Alfa Bank banking group in exchange for a 9.9% stake in Alfa Bank BG.
Collection: owns the largest collection of Russian paintings of the early 20th century in Russia. On November 14, 2016, at Sotheby’s in New York, he purchased “Still Life” (1911) by Marc Chagall for $4.7 million.

25. Alexander Abramov
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Evraz Plc
Source of wealth: iron and steel industry
Net worth: $4.5 billion
Age: 58 years
Marital status, children: married, three children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: MIPT (1982)

First business: in the late 1980s, he sold medical equipment. In the 1990s, together with Alexander Frolov (No. 50), he gained control over three steel mills, on the basis of which the Evraz mining group was created.
Capital: Evraz (21.38%)
Deal: in the spring of 2013, he helped resolve the dispute between Vladimir Potanin F 8 and Oleg Deripaska F 23, purchasing together with Roman Abramovich F 12 5.87% of the Norilsk Nickel company.
Charity: founder of the Charitable Foundation for the Development of Innovative Education in the Field of Natural Sciences. The foundation pays scholarships to gifted students of physics and technology universities from low-income families.
Hobbies: fishing, swimming, tennis.

Forbes magazine annually compiles a popular ranking of the planet's billionaires, which determines who is the richest person in the world; in 2018, the ranking included 2,124 businessmen with a fortune ranging from $1 to $112 billion. Let's look at the top ten.

Bezos tops the Forbes list, rightfully, as one of the richest people of 2018, having increased his net worth by $39 billion over the past year. The main, first ideological creator of the online store Amazon.com. He is the only owner of a twelve-figure fortune on the planet - $112 billion. Having been successful in the financial sector for many years, Jeff took a risk (1994) with his successful career on Wall Street, deciding to develop an Internet platform and was not mistaken; his rapid success brings profit to this day. Bezos's large income last year was due to increased demand for the brand's shares. The multi-billionaire at the top of the list has a passion:

To astronautics;
Development of modern equipment for passenger transportation of citizens beyond space;
Passion for “sea excavations”, retrieving the remains of the NASSA space shuttles from the depths.

2nd place. Bill Gates

Once one of the richest people in the world according to the Forbes rating, he ranks honorably second among the top ten richest people of 2018. The well-known company Microsoft brings a stable income to Gates, who owns 3 percent of the corporation's shares. His fortune is estimated at $90 billion, additional income comes from investments aimed at several progressively developing areas: Canadian Railways, the processing company Republic Services, a car dealer plant. Gates' focus on charitable goals is worthy of praise; special attention is paid to the healthcare system and the poverty of second world countries.

3rd place. Warren Buffett

At the age of 87, Buffett reached the third level of the ranking of wealthy people on the planet ($84 billion). The main way to increase his capital is by investing in many popular companies, such as:

Coca-Cola;
Dairy Queen;
Bank of America;
Many others, more than fifty of them.

Buffett began his career quite early - at the age of 11, investing dollars borrowed from his parent into shares of several companies; his wait was crowned with success. Charity is not alien to this entrepreneur, who has created a family foundation. Despite his sedate age, Buffett continues to actively participate in the affairs of his company, investing, and cooperation with the largest corporations in the United States of America.

4th place. Bernard Arnault

A French capitalist, a connoisseur of true luxury, Arnault returned in 2018 to the Top 5 ranking of rich people ($72 billion). His famous company has the right to sell luxury items from the world's most famous brands:

Hennessy;
Louis Vuitton;
Christian Dior.

By the way, speaking of the latter, the Arnault family entered into a deal with the fashion house in 2017, thereby becoming the sole holders of the Christian Dior fashion brand, which brings a lot to the budget. An increase in demand and sales for luxury products by 13% (about $42 billion) contributed to Arnault rising to fourth place in the ranking.

5th place. Mark Zuckerberg

Despite many conflicting reviews about the famous Facebook network, of which Zuckerberg is the founder, pressure from government structures (the Russian-US controversy after the presidential election), the company's shares began to rise steadily. The estimated fortune of the young genius, who is included in the ranking of the richest people in the world, according to Forbes magazine, is at just over $70 billion. The full owner is actively engaged in his activities (in the area of IT development), collaborating with other popular projects such as Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus VR (modern virtual reality devices).

6th place. Amancio Ortega

The Spanish textile tycoon, 80 years old, is a shareholder of the largest Zara holding, one of the main components of his capital. Ortega opened his first business with his wife in his first marriage, sewing bath accessories and cutting underwear at home, then mastering the entire Spanish market. 2017 brought a financial loss of $1.3 billion due to a decline in the company's stock prices. An additional tool for stable income to one’s fortune ($70 billion) are annual investments, about $400 million, in real estate of the largest city centers:

NY;
Miami;
Barcelona;
London;
Madrid.

7th place. Carlos Slim Helu

In addition to this American ranking, Slim Elu is considered the richest man in Mexico ($67 billion) in 2018. Owns a controlling stake in the largest Latin American mobile operator. The unprecedented rise in America Movil shares by 39 percent in 2017 had a significant impact on his financial well-being. He is the holder of a 17% stake in the business newspaper The New York Times, and also receives investments from real estate (real estate firm), the consumer market, and the mining segment.

8th place. Charles Koch

An influential American, Koch, who has weight in US politics, business, and philanthropy. A successful 82-year-old entrepreneur, he increases his wealth ($60 billion) by making profits from the production of the oil refinery and other areas of the Koch holding. The family contract, together with his brother, owns the huge, profitable corporation Koch Industries, where Charles Koch presides as chairman of the board of directors.

9th place. David Koch

Slightly inferior to his brother Charles, David Koch topped the top ten “richest people in the world 2018.” The stability of his income is provided by Koch Industries, founded back in 1940 by their father. The company has many industries, in various fields:

Oil refining;
Construction of a pipeline system;
Large-scale production of paper products, glasses, and other profitable projects.

The Koch family pays special attention to the field of education, allocating significant funds for charitable needs, such as developing programs and receiving grants. David Koch's fortune is estimated at $60 billion.

10th place. Larry Ellison

Rounding out the top 10 richest and most influential people on the planet, according to Forbes magazine, is Larry Ellison, a former CIA employee and former CEO of his own business project, Oracle. Net profit for the previous year amounted to $6.3 billion, the main source of income was Oracle assets (price increase by 18%). The company is engaged in cloud technologies. The entrepreneur is a fan of yachting (sailing), and also actively cooperates with charitable organizations. His fortune is estimated at 58.5 billion.

Complete Forbes list

In total, the list of dollar billionaires according to Forbes contains more than two thousand names! You can get acquainted with it by following the link. Unfortunately, it is not possible to translate such a long list, so you will have to read it in English. The list can be sorted by name, age, condition, field of activity and nationality.

Year after year, the famous Forbes publication publishes ratings of the richest and most successful people on our planet. The fortune of each of them exceeds one billion dollars, and the total value of the total capital of the world's billionaires this year is almost 8 trillion dollars, which is an absolute record compared to all previous years.

Moreover, in 2019, the Forbes list of world billionaires was replenished by as many as 233 people – another record. Who exactly entered this “money” hundred and who left it is presented in our article.

Forbes Top 100 Billionaires in the World

Place / Name / Age / Condition / Source of income / Country

1 Bill Gates

62; $86 billion; Microsoft; United States

2 Warren Buffett

87; $75.6 billion; Berkshire Hathaway; United States

3 Jeff Bezos

53; $72.8 billion; Amazon.com; United States

4 Amancio Ortega

81; $71.3 billion; Zara; Spain

5 Mark Zuckerberg

33; $56 billion; Facebook; United States

6 Carlos Slim Helu

77; $54.5 billion; telecom; Mexico

7 Larry Ellison

73; $52.2 billion; software; United States

8 Charles Koch

82; $48.3 billion; diversified United States

8 David Koch

77; $48.3 billion; diversified United States

10 Michael Bloomberg

75; $47.5 billion; Bloomberg LP; United States

11 Bernard Arnault

68; $41.5 billion; LVMH; France

12 Larry Page

44; $40.7 billion; Google; United States

13 Sergey Brin

44; $39.8 billion; Google; United States

14 Liliane Bettencourt

95; $39.5 billion; L"Oreal; France

15 S. Robson Walton

73; $34.1 billion; Wal-Mart; United States

16 Jim Walton

69; $34 billion; Wal-Mart; United States

17 Alice Walton

68; $33.8 billion; Wal-Mart; United States

18 Wang Jianlin

63; $31.3 billion; real estate; China

19 Li Ka-shing

89; $31.2 billion; diversified Hong Kong

19 Sheldon Adelson

84; $30.4 billion; casinos; United States

21 Steve Ballmer

61; $30 billion; Microsoft; United States

22 Jorge Paulo Lemann

78; $29.2 billion; beer; Brazil

23 Jack Ma

53; $28.3 billion; e-commerce; China

24 Beate Heister & Karl Albrecht Jr.

no data; $27.2 billion; supermarkets; Germany

24 David Thomson

60; $27.2 billion; media; Canada

26 Jacqueline Mars

78; $27 billion; candy; United States

26 John Mars

82; $27 billion; candy; United States

28 Phil Knight

79; $26.2 billion; Nike; United States

29 Maria Franca Fissolo

82; $25.2 billion; Nutella, chocolates; Italy

29 George Soros

87; $25.2 billion; hedge funds; United States

31 Ma Huateng

46; $24.9 billion; internet media; China

32 Lee Shau Kee

89; $24.4 billion; real estate; Hong Kong

33 Mukesh Ambani

60; $23.2 billion; petrochemicals, oil & gas; India

34 Masayoshi Son

60; $21.2 billion; internet, telecom; Japan

35 Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen

69; $21.1 billion; Lego; Denmark

36 Georg Schaeffler

53; $20.7 billion; automotive; Germany

37 Joseph Safra

78; $20.5 billion; banking; Brazil

38 Michael Dell

52; $20.4 billion; Dell computers; United States

39 Susanne Klatten

55; $20.4 billion; BMW, pharmaceuticals; Germany

40 Len Blavatnik

60; $20 billion; diversified United States

40 Laurene Powell Jobs

54; $20 billion Apple, Disney; United States

42 Paul Allen

64; $19.9 billion; Microsoft, investments; United States

43 Stefan Persson

70; $19.6 billion; H Sweden

44 Theo Albrecht, Jr.

66; $18.8 billion; Aldi, Trader Joe's; Germany

45 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud

62; $18.7 billion; investments; Saudi Arabia

46 Leonid Mikhelson

62; $18.4 billion; gas, chemicals; Russia

47 Charles Ergen

64; $18.3 billion; satellite TV; United States

47 Stefan Quandt

51; $18.3 billion; BMW; Germany

49 James Simons

79; $18 billion; hedge funds; United States

50 Leonardo Del Vecchio

82; $17.9 billion; eyeglasses; Italy

51 Alexey Mordashov

52; $17.5 billion; steel, investments; Russia

52 William Ding

46; $17.3 billion; online games; China

53 Dieter Schwarz

78; $17 billion; retail; Germany

54 Ray Dalio

68; $16.8 billion; hedge funds; United States

55 Carl Icahn

81; $16.6 billion; investments; United States

56 Lakshmi Mittal

67; $16.4 billion; steel; India

57 Serge Dassault

92; $16.1 billion; diversified France

57 Vladimir Lisin

61; $16.1 billion; steel, transport; Russia

59 Gennady Timchenko

65; $16 billion; oil, gas; Russia

60 Wang Wei

47; $15.9 billion; package delivery; China

60 Tadashi Yanai

68; $15.9 billion; fashion retail; Japan

62 Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi

73; $15.8 billion; drinks, real estate; Thailand

63 Francois Pinault

81; $15.7 billion; luxury goods; France

64 Hinduja family

no data; $15.4 billion; diversified Great Britain

65 David & Simon Reuben

74; $15.3 billion; investments, real estate; Great Britain

66 Donald Bren

85; $15.2 billion; real estate; United States

66 Alisher Usmanov

64; $15.2 billion; steel, telecom, investments; Russia

68 Lee Kun-Hee

75; $15.1 billion; Samsung; South Korea

69 Thomas & Raymond Kwok

no data; $15 billion; real estate; Hong Kong

69 Joseph Lau

66; $15 billion; real estate; Hong Kong

69 Gina Rinehart

63; $15 billion; mining; Australia

72 Azim Premji

72; $14.9 billion; software services; India

73 Marcel Herrmann Telles

67; $14.8 billion; beer; Brazil

74 Vagit Alekperov

67; $14.5 billion; oil; Russia

75 Mikhail Fridman

53; $14.4 billion; oil, banking, telecom; Russia

75 Abigail Johnson

55; $14.4 billion; money management; United States

77 Pallonji Mistry

88; $14.3 billion; construction; Ireland

77 Vladimir Potanin

56; $14.3 billion; metals; Russia

79 Wang Wenyin

49; $14 billion; mining, copper products; China

80 Elon Musk

46; $13.9 billion; Tesla Motors; United States

80 Stefano Pessina

76; $13.9 billion; drugstores; Italy

82 German Larrea Mota Velasco

64; $13.8 billion; mining; Mexico

82 Thomas Peterffy

73; $13.8 billion; discount brokerage; United States

84 Iris Fontbona

74; $13.7 billion; mining; Chile

84 Dilip Shanghvi

62; $13.7 billion; pharmaceuticals; India

86 Dietrich Mateschitz

73; $13.4 billion; Red Bull; Austria

87 Harold Hamm

71; $13.3 billion; oil&gas; United States

87 Robin Li

49; $13.3 billion; internet search; China

89 Andrey Melnichenko

45; $13.2 billion; coal, fertilizers; Russia

90 Rupert Murdoch

86; $13.1 billion; newspapers, TV network; United States

90 Heinz Hermann Thiele

76; $13.1 billion; brakes; Germany

92 Steve Cohen

61; $13 billion; hedge funds; United States

92 Patrick Drahi

54; $13 billion; telecom; France

94 Henry Sy

93; $12.7 billion; diversified Philippines

95 Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

63; $12.6 billion; Heineken; Netherlands

96 Philip Anschutz

77; $12.5 billion; investments; United States

96 Ronald Perelman

74; $12.5 billion; leveraged buyouts; United States

96 Hans Rausing

91 $12.5 billion; packaging; Sweden

96 Carlos Alberto Sicupira

69; $12.5 billion; beer; Brazil

100 Klaus-Michael Kuehne

80; $12.4 billion; shipping; Germany

Results

After reading the Forbes ranking of billionaires, you definitely couldn’t help but notice how many Russian oligarchs are in this ranking. Indeed, after three to five difficult years, Russian billionaires began to get rich again. Over the course of a year, their total capital increased by one hundred billion dollars.

For our country's richest people, the crisis appears to be truly over. What are the reasons for this “take-off” is unknown. Analysts are silent, the state is silent. But, as they say: “there is no money, but you hang in there.”

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1. Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft. Net worth: $76 billion. (Bloomberg)

2. Carlos Slim, Chairman and CEO of Telmex and America Movil. Net worth: $72 billion. (Bloomberg)

3. Amancio Ortega, founder of Zara and owner of Inditex. Net worth: $64 billion. (Bloomberg)

4. Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Net worth: $58.2 billion. (Bloomberg)

5. Larry Ellison, founder and director of Oracle. Net worth: $48 billion. (AP)

6. Charles Koch, co-owner and chairman of Koch Industries. Net worth: $40 billion. (Bloomberg)

7. David Koch, co-owner and vice president of Koch Industries. Net worth: $40 billion. (Bloomberg)

8. Sheldon Adelson, chairman and director of Las Vegas Sands Corp., casino operator. Net worth: $38 billion. (Bloomberg)

9. Christy Walton, family fortune from Wal-Mart. Net worth: $36.7 billion. (Getty Images)

10. Jim Walton, family fortune from Wal-Mart. Net worth: $34.7 billion. (Bloomberg)

11. Liliane Bettencourt, L’Oreal heiress. Net worth: $34.5 billion. (EPA)14. S. Robinson Walton, Wal-Mart. Net worth: $34.2 billion. (Bloomberg)

15. Bernard Arnault, Chairman and CEO of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey. Net worth: $33.5 billion. (Bloomberg)

Journalists from the American financial and economic magazine published an annual list of stars who earned the most money in a year.

The leader in the top is the undefeated American professional boxer who competed in the welterweight category, Floyd Mayweather. Over the course of a year, he managed to earn about 285 million dollars, which in Ukrainian equivalent at the current exchange rate is about 7.5 billion hryvnia.

Notably, he is also considered the highest paid boxer in professional boxing history.

Following the legendary athlete on the list is an American actor, director, producer, businessman and activist. According to Forbes, in a year the star enriched himself by almost 240 million dollars - 6.3 billion hryvnia.

The top three is completed by a model, businesswoman and TV show participant The Kardashians Kylie Jenner. Thanks to his successful cosmetics brand Kylie Cosmetics The socialite earned $165.5 million over the past year. In hryvnia equivalent – 4.3 billion.