For a long time, Russians will not forget Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's call to "hold on" when there is no money. But there are people who hold on well without any appeals, earning millions and even billions of dollars. The list of such people - the richest in Russia - was published by Forbes... To be among them, you need to have at least $ 500 million. A pass to the top 10 "costs" more than $ 12 billion. Introducing the top ten richest Russians in 2017.
10. Victor Vekselberg
Capital - $ 12.4 billion.
In addition to his huge revenues from UC Rusal and the machine-building concerns Oerlikon and Sulzer, the wealthy businessman is known for his incomparable collection of precious objects made by Faberge.
9.Andrey Melnichenko
Capital - $ 13.2 billion.
Melnichenko's entrepreneurial talent manifested itself in his youth. In the 90s, he opened a currency exchange office in the dormitory of Moscow State University, where he studied at that time. Then a whole currency network appeared, and from it MDM Bank was born. In 1997, a company was founded by Melnichenko and Sergei Popov. It bought a number of production assets that served as the basis for SUEK, TMK and Eurochem. Currently, SUEK and EuroChem, as well as the SGK energy holding, bring Melnichenko the main income.
8. Vladimir Potanin
Capital - $ 14.3 billion.
Owns 30.41% of shares in Norilsk Nickel - the world leader in the production of palladium and nickel metals. For control over this company, Potanin had a protracted conflict with Oleg Deripaska for five years. However, in 2012, businessmen went to the world.
7. Mikhail Fridman
Capital - $ 14.4 billion.
This Russian billionaire, who moved to London for permanent residence, has a lot of positions. Is he:
- chairman and one of the owners of the supervisory board of the consortium "Alfa Group";
- is a member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress;
- heads up LetterOne Holdings, which owns oil and gas company Dea, 56.2% of Vimpelcom and 13.22% of Turkcell;
- is a member of the leadership of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
It is Fridman who owns such brands known to most Russians as Pyaterochka, Beeline and Perekrestok. And Alfa-Bank, which is part of the Alfa Group, sponsors the Liniya Zhizn charitable foundation, which helps children with serious illnesses.
6. Vagit Alekperov
The fortune is 14.5 billion dollars.
One of the richest Russian entrepreneurs has moved from the 9th line, which he occupied in the 2016 ranking, to the 6th place. This means that the Lukoil oil company, which he controls, is doing more than well. For 2016 Alekperov received $ 590 million in dividends from Lukoil.
5. Alisher Usmanov
Capital - $ 15.2 billion.
It is the main shareholder of USM Holdings, and this holding controls the mobile operator Megafon, the Kommersant publication, Mail.ru Group and owns the largest mining company in Russia and the CIS, Metalloinvest. Recently, the name of Alisher Usmanov was implicated in an anti-corruption scandal in connection with an expensive gift - a $ 5 billion estate - donated to the non-profit foundation Sotsgosproekt.This fund belongs to Ilya Eliseev, a classmate of Dmitry Medvedev. Usmanov commented on a piece of the investigation film by Alexei Navalny concerning him, saying that the land plot was transferred as part of a deal to exchange for another plot intended for his sister.
4. Gennady Timchenko
The fortune is 16 billion dollars.
More recently, information appeared that a friend of Vladimir Putin and the richest citizen of Finland Gennady Timchenko (he has Russian-Finnish citizenship) is building an estate in the elite village of Rublevka. His neighbors will be Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Senator Yuri Vorobyov. Timchenko owns the investment group Volga Group.
3. Vladimir Lisin
Capital - $ 16.1 billion.
The top 3 richest businessmen in Russia are opened by the owner of factories (Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine), steamships (Okskaya Shipyard, part of the UCL transport holding) and, if not newspapers, but Business FM radio station. Also Vladimir Lisin is the owner of the sports and shooting complex "Fox Nora". In addition to his fortune, the entrepreneur is known as one of the few billionaires who live happily ever after in marriage, without scandals and divorces. His wife Svetlana owns the Seasons chamber painting gallery in Moscow. The couple raised three children, but very little is known about them; Lisin prefers not to advertise his personal life.
2. Alexey Mordashov
Condition - 17.5 billion dollars.
Mordashov owns the steel and mining company Severstal, which, in turn, owns the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. This is the second largest steel mill in the Russian Federation. But the 51-year-old's commercial interests go beyond steel and mining. He has shares and stakes in a number of large and prosperous companies, such as the European travel concern TUI, the bank "Russia" "T2RTK Holding", the gold mining company Nord Gold, etc.
1. Leonid Mikhelson
Capital - $ 18.4 billion.
For the second year in a row, Mikhelson's name has been at the top of the Forbes list of the richest people in Russia. The current co-owner of the Novatek gas company and the chairman of the board of the petrochemical Sibur Holding began his journey as a construction superintendent for the construction of the first line of the Urengoy-Chelyabinsk gas pipeline. The path from foreman to leader of the Russian rich took 40 years. However, once at the top, Leonid Mikhelson does not forget about ordinary people. Novatek sponsors a class of gifted children in one of the Novokuibyshevsk schools, and also provides charitable assistance to the Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg.
The most respected people in Russia.
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