For a long time, the Russians will not forget the call of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to “hold on” when there is no money. But there are people who adhere well without any appeals, earning millions and even billions of dollars. A list of such people - the richest in Russia - was published by Forbes magazine. To get into their number you need to have at least 500 million dollars. And a pass in the top 10 "costs" more than $ 12 billion. Introducing the top ten richest Russians in 2017.
10. Victor Vekselberg
Capital - 12.4 billion dollars.
In addition to his huge revenues from UC Rusal and the engineering concerns Oerlikon and Sulzer, the wealthy businessman is known for his incomparable collection of precious items made by Faberge.
9. Andrey Melnichenko
Capital - 13.2 billion dollars.
The talent of the entrepreneur at Melnichenko manifested itself in his young years. In the 90s, he opened in a dormitory of Moscow State University, where at that time he studied, a currency exchange office. Then a whole currency network appeared, and from it MDM Bank was “born”. In 1997, a company appeared, created by Melnichenko and Sergey Popov. She bought up a number of production assets that served as the basis for SUEK, TMK and EuroChem. Currently, SUEK and Eurochem, as well as the energy holding company SGK, bring Melnichenko the main income.
8. Vladimir Potanin
Capital - 14.3 billion dollars.
Owns a 30.41% stake in Norilsk Nickel - the world leader in the production of palladium and nickel metals. For control over this company, Potanin spent five years in a protracted conflict with Oleg Deripaska. However, in 2012, businessmen went to the world.
7. Mikhail Fridman
Capital - 14.4 billion dollars.
This Russian billionaire, who moved to permanent residence in London, has a lot of posts. Is he:
- Chairman and one of the owners of the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group Consortium;
- is a member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Russian Jewish Congress;
- heads the LetterOne Holdings group, which owns the Dea oil and gas company, 56.2% of Vimpelcom and 13.22% of Turkcell;
- part of the leadership of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
It is Fridman who owns such brands that are known to most Russians as Pyaterochka, Beeline and Perekrestok. Alfa-Bank, which is part of Alfa-Group, sponsors the Life Line charity, which helps children with serious illnesses.
6. Vagit Alekperov
The state is 14.5 billion dollars.
One of the richest Russian entrepreneurs moved from the 9th line, which he occupied in the ranking of 2016, to 6th place. And this means that the affairs of the Lukoil oil company controlled by him are more than successful. In 2016, Alekperov received $ 590 million in Lukoil dividends.
5. Alisher Usmanov
Capital - 15.2 billion dollars.
It is the main holder of USM Holdings shares, and this holding controls the mobile operator Megafon, the Kommersant publication, Mail.ru Group and owns the largest mining company Metalloinvest in Russia and the CIS. Recently, the name of Alisher Usmanov was involved in an anti-corruption scandal in connection with an expensive gift - a $ 5 billion estate, transferred to the non-profit fund Sotsgosproekt. This fund belongs to Ilya Eliseev, a classmate of Dmitry Medvedev. Usmanov commented on a piece of the investigation film by Alexei Navalny regarding him, saying that the land plot was transferred as part of an exchange deal to another plot destined for his sister.
4. Gennady Timchenko
The state 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 a estate in the elite village of Rublevka. Its neighbors will be the head of the Ministry of Defense Sergey Shoigu and Senator Yuri Vorobyov. Timchenko belongs to the Volga Group investment group.
3. Vladimir Lisin
Capital - 16.1 billion dollars.
The top 3 richest businessmen in Russia are opened by the owner of factories (Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant), steamboats (Okskaya Shipyard, part of the UCL transport holding) and, if not newspapers, but Business FM radio stations. Also Vladimir Lisin is the owner of the sports and shooting complex "Fox hole". In addition to his fortune, the businessman is known as one of the few billionaires to live happily and happily in a marriage, without scandals and divorces. His wife Svetlana owns a chamber gallery of the Seasons painting 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
The state is 17.5 billion dollars.
Mordashov owns the Severstal steel and mining company, which in turn owns the Cherepovets Steel Mill. This is the second largest steel mill in the Russian Federation. But the commercial interests of the 51-year-old businessman are not limited to steel and mining. He has shares and stakes in a number of large and prosperous companies, such as the European travel concern TUI, the Rossiya Bank T2RTK Holding, the Nord Gold mining company, etc.
1. Leonid Mikhelson
Capital - 18.4 billion dollars.
For the second year in a row, the name of Michelson is 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 Sibur Holding petrochemical company began his career by working as the construction superintendent of SMU on the construction of the first line of the Urengoy-Chelyabinsk gas pipeline. The path from the foreman to the leaders of the Russian rich took 40 years. However, being at the top, Leonid Mikhelson does not forget about ordinary people. Novatek sponsors a class of gifted children in one of the Novokuibyshev schools, as well as provides charitable assistance to the Museum of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg.
