The amount of money is directly proportional to the feeling of spiritual awe, and if it is not yours, then to noble indignation. Every year, Forbes magazine throws wood on the fire of both feelings, posting on the Web richest people lists, both the world and individual countries. Those who are fortunate enough to be among the celestials, whose fortune is equal to (or exceeds) the sum of a billion full-weight American dollars.
Who would have thought that there are so many rich people in Russia! In total, the coveted list included no less than 102 citizens of the Russian Federation. The total wealth of the richest Russians is $ 410.8 billion.
10. Alisher Usmanov
The top ten Russian billionaires of 2018 are opened by a native of Uzbekistan. Alisher's first penny was earned by the production of simple plastic bags, and now his fortune is $ 12.5 billion. Alisher's hobby is football, so he bought the Arsenal football club.
9. Victor Vekselberg
Victor earned money in the hungry (although for some - "saints") nineties by selling copper scrap extracted from the wiring of abandoned Soviet facilities on the market. Then he became the owner of the mines, and now he is investing in pumping equipment. In total, he has $ 14.4 billion.
8. Mikhail Fridman
Mikhail is a 100% world citizen: he was born in Ukraine, received citizenship in Israel, and lives in his own comfortable castle in England (and he cost him $ 90 million). True, for a person with a fortune of $ 15.1 billion, this is not so much money.
Mikhail rose in oil and banking - it was he who founded Alfa-Bank - one of the the most reliable according to the Central Bank... He also entered into a fierce battle with the proud Britons for control of the oil company THK-BP - until it ceased to exist. Of course, Mikhail got a good taste of this.
7. Alexey Melnichenko
Once Alexei started with a network of exchangers (do you remember what role exchange offices in Russia played in the early 90s?). And now he has 15.5 billion dollars in his accounts. Having become a respectable businessman, Alexey took up a respectable hobby - now he collects paintings. The paintings are also solid, leaving their mark on world culture - for example, Claude Monet.
6. Vladimir Potanin
Like many of his compatriots in the turbulent nineties, Vladimir began with banking and, as far as possible, was engaged in everything that could bring profit - agriculture, construction projects, show business, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and ski resorts. This diversified strategy has earned him an impressive $ 15.9 billion.
5. Gennady Timchenko
Having made $ 16 billion, Gennady clearly pays great attention to a healthy lifestyle and personally grows environmentally friendly apples. He eats them, probably, washed down with bottled water of his own production. Of course, with such and such capital, you want to live longer!
4. Vagit Alekperov
Oil is life. It's a good life. This thesis is proved by the fate of Vagit Alekperov, who linked his fate with the oil industry and earned a fortune of $ 16.4 billion on it.It was he who founded the Lukoil company and he also suffered from Western sanctions in 2014. However, as we see, the atrocities of American imperialism did not affect his well-being.
3. Leonid Mikhelson
The top three richest businessmen in Russia are opened by one of the strongest business executives of the Yeltsin era, who rose on natural gas reserves. In total, Michelson's fortune is $ 18 billion - two billion more than the fourth place in the rating.
2. Alexey Mordashov
The foundations of Aleksey's wealth were laid by the management of the steel company Severstal, of which he had been the permanent director for almost twenty years. The second pillar of his wealth is travel company TUI Group, one of the largest in the world. And in total, by the beginning of 2018, Alexey had earned $ 18.7 billion.
1. Vladimir Lisin
But who is at the very top of the Russian business food chain? Who is the lucky one who, from the height of the money mountain, can scornfully look down on those who live "from paycheck to paycheck"? The moment of truth has come: the richest man in Russia, according to Forbes, is Vladimir Lisin. His fortune totals an impressive $ 19.1 billion. We are even ready to believe that instead of water, his pool is filled with crispy green papers.
In general, Lisin's biography can serve as an image for a self-made genre. He began his journey to wealth from the bowels of a coal mine, then he bought a factory or two (including the Novolipetsk Steel Plant), and everything started to turn. By the way, to the attention of potential expropriators: Lisin is engaged in sports shooting at a professional level and is quite capable of protecting his own property.
Strange-Russians work, they have no money. On the list of the rich, there are only non-working Jews - they have money ...
I wonder where these billionaires would be if it weren't for our generous country? No one has created anything. Money is paper, deeds are the memory of generations.
and asking them to help with money, they say that they feel sorry for the snow for this, but don't even stutter about money