The Russian land has not become scarce with dollar billionaires. At the moment, there are 96 of them, according to Forbes. Their families have 274 children who, as they say, “were born with a golden spoon in their mouth”. The combined wealth of the richest families in Russia is $ 386 billion, that is, for every future rich man there is about $ 1.4 billion.
Forbes experts compiled rating of the richest heirs of Russia, which included children with a capital of $ 2.3 billion and more. In total, the top 47 includes the richest young Russians. The composition of the list has not changed much compared to 2016. It included the only newcomer - the family of the main shareholder of UC Rusal, Oleg Deripaska, who took the place of the ex-owner of MDM Bank Sergei Popov.
47 heirs of Russian billionaires (Table)
Eight young billionaires have followed in their father's footsteps and work in family structures. The rest of the children of the owners of factories, newspapers and ships are either still studying or working in companies that do not belong to their parents.
When compiling a rating of the richest heirs in the Russian Federation, Forbes experts acted according to a simple method: they took the state of each of the 96 billionaires and divided into all the recognized children of the businessman... At the same time, they did not take into account the shares of the spouses and the statements of some oligarchs (for example, Mikhail Fridman and Vladimir Potanin) that their children would not receive a large inheritance, since it would go to charitable purposes.