For ten years now, the famous financial and economic journal Forbes (USA) has been published in Russian. This publication won great popularity around the world thanks to the published ratings of the "very-most": wealthy, successful, expensive, etc. In 2013, according to information published in Forbes, Russia reached the first honorary number of billionaires (in dollars). a place. In August last year, the magazine compiled a list of the richest people in Russia. For two years now, he has been led by the same person - Alisher Usmanov.
Its total capital is estimated at more than 17 billion dollars, but in other publications you can find numbers that exceed these by 3-4 billion. In addition, in some domestic publications the title "richest man in Russia" is not Usmanov, but Vladimir Lisin. There are also publications in which Oleg Deripaska is called this "lucky man". But according to Forbes, Lisin is in eighth position, and Deripaska is not in the top ten at all. Most likely, this discrepancy arises due to the fact that different publications evaluate the capital of a billionaire according to different criteria. In addition, the fortune of the rich is sometimes recorded on their family members and other relatives, so there is practically no exact information on the size of the capital of a businessman. Nevertheless, we present to your attention a list of the richest people in Russia, published in the Forbes magazine.
The richest people in Russia 2013
Version of Forbes Magazine
The three leaders are led by Alisher Usmanov, followed by Mikhail Fridman and Leonid Milchenson, who occupy, respectively, second and third places. In fourth position is Viktor Vekselberg. On the fifth - Vagit Alekperov. 42-year-old billionaire Andrei Melnichenko is the sixth in the ranking, and Vladimir Potanin is the seventh. The last three places in the top ten richest people in Russia are Vladimir Lisin - the owner of the metallurgical plant in Novolipetsk, the owner of the Volga Group, Gennady Timchenko and Mikhail Prokhorov, occupying, respectively, 8th, 9th and 10th places.
Version of the Russian magazine "Seo"
But in the authoritative publication "Finance" (magazine "CEO") another list is published, which is slightly different from the first. The leader in the list is still the same Alisher Usmanov, and Vladimir Lisin , who took 8th place in the Forbes rating, is in second place here. Vladimir Vekselberg also jumped into two steps and is in 3rd place. But Mikhail Fridman, on the contrary, went down two steps and takes the 4th line. Mikhail Prokhorov from the end of the list (10th line) moved to the very middle - to fifth place. Alexei Mordashov, who occupies the 6th level of the rating according to the version of Seo magazine, is not in the Forbes list at all. Leonid Milchenson from the third position went down to the 7th. Oleg Deripaska, who is not in the Forbes rating, but whom some domestic publications call the "richest man in Russia," is in eighth position on this list. Vladimir Potanin is on the penultimate stage of the top ten. And the last place is occupied by Vagit Alekperov - the fifth position in the Forbes rating.
The richest man in Russia
As you can see, according to both lists, the richest businessman in Russia is Alisher Usmanov. He owns the Metalloinvest metallurgical holding, is a co-owner (29.9% of the shares) of the British legendary FC Arsenal and the mobile communications operator Megafon and others. The richest man in Russia was born in Uzbekistan in a family of a prosecutor. He was educated at MGIMO. After the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Russia, where he founded his own business - the production of plastic bags, and also began to import tobacco into Russia. At the same time, he studied at the Financial Academy and received a diploma in banking. Once in the banking sector, he made incredible success: one position was replaced by another, higher. He later became CEO of Gazprominvestholding, a limited liability company that he owns to this day. Then Usmanov bought a major stake in the Internet holding DST, which in 2010 changed its name to Mile.ru Group. It included Mail.ru, Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, 10% of Facebook, and others. Alisher Usmanov’s fortune decreased by $ 0.5 billion compared to last year: from 18.1 billion to 17.6. Despite this, he, according to Forbes and other reputable publications, is the richest man in Russia.