In what order did the leaders of the Russian Forbes list change this year and whether there were newcomers among them.

Forbes has compiled the fourteenth ranking of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia. For the vast majority of its participants, 2016 turned out to be a successful year. The total wealth of the 200 richest businessmen increased by $100 billion to $460 billion. To get into the top 25 of the ranking, an entrepreneur must have a wealth of $4.5 billion. A year ago, $3.6 billion was enough for this.

The main drivers for the growth of fortunes of the richest Russian businessmen were the strengthening of the ruble and the favorable situation in the commodity markets. Entrepreneurs whose asset structure is dominated by metallurgical companies have increased their fortunes more than others. The fortune of the main owner of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK) Vladimir Lisin increased by more than $6.8 billion. The assets of Alexey Mordashov, the owner of Severstal, increased in price by $6.6 billion.

Oil, gas and mineral fertilizers have also made good money for the billionaires at the top of the Forbes list. Who is in the top 25 of the Russian ranking this year and what else do they earn from?

1. Leonid Mikhelson
Chairman of the Board of PJSC Novatek
State Source: Gas
Net worth: $18.4 billion
Age: 61 years

City of residence: Moscow
Education: Kuibyshev Institute of Civil Engineering (1977).

First business: since 1987 he headed Kuibyshevtruboprovodstroy, in 1991 he transformed the trust into the private enterprise Nova.
Capital: stake in Novatek (24.76%), Sibur (34.18%).
Figure: Sibur’s net profit according to IFRS in 2016 increased 17.4 times compared to 2015 and amounted to 113 billion rubles.
Deal: in December 2016, the Chinese Silk Road Fund acquired 10% of Sibur for approximately $1.3 billion, the same amount the Chinese company Sinopec paid for the same package a year earlier.
Event: in 2017, he opposed the FAS experiment to liberalize the gas market in a number of regions and proposed transferring the authority to regulate Gazprom tariffs to the Ministry of Energy.
Partners: Gennady Timchenko F 4, Leonid Simanovsky F 78.
Detail: owner of a large development project in the Leningrad region - 510 hectares near Sestroretsk, including 370 hectares of alluvial territory. It is planned to build more than 3 million sq. m. m of real estate.
Charity: heads the V-A-C (Victoria - the Art of Being Contemporary) foundation, named after Victoria’s daughter. The foundation supports contemporary art and provides grants to young artists and curators. In addition, he is an investor in the Victoria gallery in Samara.
Quote: “Adequate tariff regulation and rules that are clear to market participants are necessary. Otherwise, we will be faced with a gas shortage in the foreseeable future" (Kommersant, 2016)

2. Alexey Mordashov
Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Severstal
, tourism, mechanical engineering
Net worth: $17.5 billion
Age: 51 years
Marital status, children: married, six children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute (1988).

First business: in 1992, he was appointed director of finance and economics at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant (ChMK). He entered into the first contracts with traders who sold metal to the West. Having bought a controlling stake in ChMK, he removed director Yuri Lipukhin.
Capital: Severstal (79.2%), TUI (23%), Nord Gold (90.7%), Power Machines (100%).
Figure: over the past five years (2012–2016), he received $2.83 billion in dividends from Severstal.
Deal: Spent more than $500 million in 2016 to increase its stake in TUI.
Event: in May 2015, he resigned from the post of head of Severstal, which he had held since 1996.
Brand: TUI (the largest travel company in the world with a capitalization of almost $8 billion), Utkonos online grocery store.
Partners: together with Yuri Kovalchuk, F 93 owns shares of Rossiya Bank, which is under sanctions, the National Media Group and the T2 RTK Holding group (operating under the Tele2 brand).
Detail: the German company Schmitz Cargobull uses plywood from the Sveza enterprise owned by Mordashov to make floors in its trailers.
Quote: “I prefer to invest in assets that I understand and where I myself can create added value. I'm a strategist, not a portfolio investor" (Bloomberg, 2016)

3. Vladimir Lisin
Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK
Source of wealth: metallurgy, transport
Net worth: $16.1 billion
Age: 60 years

City of residence: Moscow
Education: Siberian Metallurgical Institute (1976).

First business: in the late 1980s, he headed the Soviet-Swiss company TSK-Steel, which traded substandard metal abroad.
Capital: stake in NLMK (84%), transport holding Universal Cargo Logistics (100%).
Transaction: in December 2016, he sold about 1.5% of NLMK shares for $153 million.
Hobbies: sport shooting, hunting. He built the largest sports and shooting complex in Europe, “Fox Hole,” in the Moscow region.
Collection: assembled the world's largest collection of iron castings from the Ural city of Kasli (operating since 1749).
Sports: vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee, president of the Shooting Union of Russia and the European Shooting Confederation (ESC), vice-president of the International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF), president of the All-Russian Association of Summer Olympic Sports (VALOS).
Detail: in the Rospatent database, Lisin is listed as the author of new methods for washing a blast furnace, processing steel in a ladle, obtaining a coating on a metal strip, and the owner of a couple of dozen more patents.
Rating: took 7th place in the ranking of Russian billionaires with the highest income in 2016. According to Forbes, Lisin received $820 million.
Quote: “Money only gives you a certain degree of freedom, which is associated with the choice of business, investment, and the choice to do what you want. They don't give anything else, in my opinion. A degree of freedom, nothing more.” (“Snob”, 2016)

4. Gennady Timchenko
Member of the board of directors of Novatek and Sibur

Net worth: $16 billion
Age: 64 years
Marital status, children: married, three children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Leningrad Mechanical Institute (1976)

First business: worked as vice president of the foreign trade organization Kirishineftekhimexport (Kinex), created at the Kirishi Oil Refinery in the Leningrad Region. In 1996, at a privatization auction, together with his partners, he bought out Kinex, from which Gunvor, one of the world's largest oil traders, later grew.
Capital: stakes in Novatek (23.5%), Sibur (14.29%), Stroytransgaz group (31.5%), Transoil (80%).
Figure: Timchenko received $1.5 billion in 2016 from the sale of shares in Gunvor, Petromir and National Media Group, as well as in the form of dividends from Novatek and Sibur.
Event: The State Duma adopted an amendment to the Tax Code in March 2017, allowing Timchenko and other Russians affected by sanctions to pay taxes only abroad. The law has retroactive effect and allows you to refund income taxes paid since 2014.
Partner: Leonid Mikhelson F 1.
Brand: Aquanika water
Citizenship: Finland, Russia
Sports: president of the SKA hockey club, chairman of the board of directors of the KHL, vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee, member of the board of trustees of the Russian Hockey Federation and the board of trustees of the Russian Chess Federation, one of the founders of the Yavara-Neva judo club.
Quote: “Money is money, but I like life here in Russia even more now. I traveled, I didn’t see much in Russia before the sanctions, but now I’m rediscovering the country for myself - I really liked Gorny Altai.” "Rain", 2016

5. Alisher Usmanov
Founder and main shareholder of USM Holdings
Source of wealth: metallurgy, telecommunications, Internet
Net worth: $15.2 billion
Age: 63 years
Marital status, children: married
City of residence: Moscow

First business: in the late 1980s, he organized the Agroplast cooperative, which produced plastic bags.
Capital: the main shareholder (48%) of USM Holdings, which combines assets in the mining industry and metallurgy (Metalloinvest, Baikal Mining Company), telecommunications (Megafon), Usmanov also has shares in media assets (New Media Holding, Publishing House "Kommersant"), development ("Khimki Group") and sports (London Arsenal).
Transaction: in February 2017, Megafon bought a stake in Mail.Ru Group from USM Holdings (15.2% of economic interest and 63.8% of voting rights)
for $740 million
Charity: founded the Arts, Science and Sports charity, which helps sick children, as well as theaters, museums and sports organizations.
Sports: President of the International Fencing Federation. At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian fencing team won 7 medals, 4 of them gold, and took 1st overall team place.
Taxes: at the end of 2015, he ceased to be a tax resident of Russia, since he spent less than 183 days in the country. A USM representative told Forbes that over the past few years, Usmanov, as an individual, has paid $350 million in taxes in Russia.
Quote: “Our, my personal, I’m not talking about our corporate charitable activities and sponsorship, my personal charity is many times greater than the tax payments that I made. Therefore, in this sense I am calm. My conscience is clear. Especially in front of my homeland." (“Russia 24”, 2016)

6. Vagit Alekperov
President of NK Lukoil
Source of wealth: oil, investments
Net worth: $14.5 billion
Age: 66 years old

City of residence: Moscow
Education: Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry named after. M. Azizbekova (evening department, 1974).

First business: in the late 1980s he was the general director of the Kogalymneftegaz PA; in 1990–1991 - Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR. In 1992–1993, he founded the oil concern LangepasUrayKogalymneft, on the basis of which OJSC LUKoil was created. Since then he has been president of the oil company. During the privatization process, he became its largest shareholder.
Capital: stake in NK Lukoil (23%).
Figure: $590 million received in 2016 in the form of dividends from Lukoil.
Event: Lukoil planned to acquire a 50.1% stake in Bashneft during privatization, but the deal did not take place. In October 2016, this state-owned stake was bought by the state-owned Rosneft for 330 billion rubles.
Toy: in February 2016, he sold his yacht Galactica for €19.5 million and moved to a new, 70-meter Galactica Super Nova, which in September won at the international Monaco Yacht Show in the categories “best new yacht” and “best interior design” "
Detail: in 2013, he bequeathed his entire stake to his son Yusuf on the condition that he would not have the right to sell or divide this stake. The goal is to provide Lukoil with stability for many years.
Quote: “I grew up in the oil field... In our yard, other than throwing a rope and riding on an [oil] rocking chair, there was no other entertainment in the fifties.” (“Russia 24”, 2016)

7. Mikhail Fridman
Chairman of the Board of Directors of LetterOne Holdings and the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group

Net worth: $14.4 billion
Age: 52 years
Marital status, children: divorced, four children
City of residence: London
Education: Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1986).

First business: in 1988, together with friends from MISiS, he organized the Courier cooperative, which was engaged in delivering food to the population. I made my first big money washing windows.
Capital: the main owner of the LetterOne Holdings group (German oil and gas company Dea, Vimpelcom - 56.2%, Turkcell -13.22%) and the assets of the Alfa Group consortium (Alfa Bank - 90.1%, X5 Retail Group - 48 %, A1, "Rosvodokanal").
Figure: Alfa Group received $14 billion in March 2013 from the sale of its stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft.
Deal: in October 2016, the Alfa Bank group acquired a foreign partner: the Italian UniCredit transferred its bank in Ukraine, Ukrsotsbank, to Alfa in exchange for a 9.9% stake in Alfa Bank BG.
Investments: In 2016, Pamplona Capital Management (engaged in direct investments of LetterOne funds) completed the acquisition of MedAssets, an American technology company that offers solutions to improve the efficiency of healthcare institutions. The transaction amount was $2.75 billion.
Citizenship: Has Israeli citizenship.
Brands: Beeline, Pyaterochka, Perekrestok.
Detail: co-founder of the Genesis Philanthropy Group, a charitable foundation that develops and strengthens Jewish identity among Russian-speaking Jews around the world. Genesis sponsored the creation of a new film (trilogy) by Leonid Parfenov, “Russian Jews.”
Quote: “I am going to donate all my money exclusively to charity. … The worst thing I could do for my children is give them a large sum of money.” (Forbes, 2016)

8. Vladimir Potanin
President of the Interros holding, General Director of MMC Norilsk Nickel
Source of wealth: non-ferrous metallurgy
Net worth: $14.3 billion
Age: 56 years old
Marital status, children: married, five children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: MGIMO (1983)

Capital: basis of wealth - 30.41% shares of Norilsk Nickel, the largest producer of nickel and palladium in the world.
Transaction: at the beginning of 2017, he sold 50% of Rambler & Co to Alexander Mamut F 40, who became the sole owner of the media holding.
Court: at the end of 2013 he divorced his first wife Natalia. In 2015, the Presnensky Court of Moscow divided the property of the ex-spouses as of 2007. The court refused to divide Potanin's stake in Norilsk Nickel between the ex-spouses. The ex-wife plans to appeal this decision.
Conflict: from 2008 to 2012, he participated in the so-called nickel wars and fought with another MMC shareholder Oleg Deripaska F 23 for control of Norilsk Nickel. In 2012, Potanin and Deripaska, through the mediation of Roman Abramovich F 12, signed a settlement agreement.
Charity: The Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation spends about $10 million a year on education, culture and sports. In 2016, the foundation donated part of its collection of contemporary Russian art to the Pompidou Center in Paris - 250 works by sixty artists and sculptors.
Sports: Passionate about hockey. Supports various sports in the regions where Norilsk Nickel operates - cross-country skiing, mini-football, basketball and curling. In 2016, Norilsk Nickel spent more than 2 billion rubles on sports projects.
Quote: “International successes always make us happy, just as our athletes’ victories in competitions make us happy, just as our scientists receive the Nobel Prize or paintings by our artists in the largest museums in the world make us happy. This, in essence, is a legacy of which we can all be proud.” (Forbes, 2016)

9. Andrey Melnichenko
Chairman of the EuroChem Strategy Committee
State Source: Gas
Net worth: $13.2 billion
Age: 45 years

City of residence: Moscow
Education: Russian Economic Academy (1997).

First business: I studied at the physics department of Moscow State University, lived in a student dormitory, where I organized a currency exchange office. MDM Bank grew from a network of exchange offices. In 1997, MDM Bank and Sergey Popov (No. 27) created a company on a parity basis, which in 2000–2002 acquired a number of production assets, on the basis of which SUEK, TMK and Eurochem were created.
Capital: stakes in SUEK (92.2%), Eurochem (90%), Siberian Generating Company (92.2%).
Deal: in December 2016, Eurochem sold its stake in the Murmansk Commercial Sea Port for 8.74 billion rubles.
Figure: $1.3 billion - capital expenditures of Eurochem in 2016. The company is investing in the construction of the Usolsky potash plant (Perm region), the VolgaKaliy project (Volgograd region) and an ammonia production plant in the Leningrad region.
Collection: Impressionist paintings.
Toy: the world's largest sailing yacht A with an estimated value of $500 million, which will be delivered to the owner in late spring 2017.
Taxes: According to Forbes, Melnichenko is not a tax resident of Russia. “He literally lives on his boat,” said a friend of his.
Quote: “I sincerely believe that the main thing is not attendance, but performance. Remember school? There were grades for behavior, for diligence and other grades. At the university and boarding school there were no grades for behavior or diligence; there were grades for academic performance. And this has a deep meaning” (“Vedomosti”, 2012)

10. Viktor Vekselberg
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Renova Group of Companies
Source of wealth: aluminum, investments
Net worth: $12.4 billion
Age: 60 years
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers, MIIT (1979).

First business: in 1988 he organized a software development cooperative. In 1989, he created the research and production enterprise “KomVek” (“Vekselberg Company”), which made money by exporting copper cable stripped of braid abroad. In October 1990, together with an institute friend, then a US citizen, Leonard Blavatnik, he founded the joint venture Renova.
Capital: UC Rusal (5.66%), Swiss companies Oerlikon (42.6%) and Sulzer (63.4%).
Figure: $7 billion received in March 2013 from the sale of a stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft.
Deal: in 2016, he increased his stake in Bank of Cyprus from 6.2% to 9.3%.
Court: Vekselberg's partner Evgeniy Olkhovik (5% of Renova's shares) and the general director of the T Plus energy holding, part of Renova, Boris Vainzikher, were arrested in September 2016 in the case of large bribes to the former leadership of the Komi Republic, headed by Vyacheslav Gaizer . Since then they have been in jail.
Collection: owns the world's largest collection of jewelry by Faberge, which is exhibited in the businessman's private museum in the Shuvalov Palace in St. Petersburg, on the restoration of which he spent about $40 million.
Detail: in 2015, Renova transferred its Sochi hotel to the Sirius educational center for gifted children, established by the Talents and Success Foundation of cellist Sergei Roldugin.
Quote: “The concept of trust in business is an economic category. If we live in the logic that every entrepreneur is a potential criminal, then this costs the country very dearly.” Vedomosti, 2016.

11. German Khan

Source of wealth: oil, finance, communications, retail
Net worth: $9.3 billion
Age: 55 years
Marital status, children: married, four children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1987).

First business: after college, I started sewing and selling clothes together with Alexander Furman, a future State Duma deputy, in the Alexandrina cooperative. In 1989, he came to Alfa Photo with Mikhail Fridman F 7 and Alexey Kuzmichev F 16, whom he knew from MISiS.
Capital: second after Fridman owner of LetterOne Holdings (Dea; Vimpelcom, 56.2%; Turkcell, 13.22%) and assets of the Alfa Group consortium (Alfa Bank (90.1%), X5 Retail Group (48% ), "A1", Rosvodokanal).
The deal: In March 2015, LetterOne acquired German oil and gas company Dea for €5.1 billion.
Detail: in March 2017, while giving a lecture at the Tyumen Technopark, he announced LetterOne’s intention to acquire a second foreign oil and gas company, now in the United States.

12. Arkady Abramovich
Major owner of investment company Millhouse
Source of wealth: metallurgy, investments
Net worth: $9.1 billion
Age: 50 years
Marital status, children: married, seven children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow Law Academy (2001).

First business: in 1988 he headed the cooperative “Uyut” (production of rubber toys). In the early 1990s, he began trading petroleum products.
Capital: Evraz (31%), Channel One (24%), real estate. Together with Evraz partner Alexander Abramov, F 25 owns 6.28% of the shares of Norilsk Nickel.
Transaction: in 2005, he received $13 billion from the sale of 73% of Sibneft shares to Gazprom.
Sports: since 2003, he has owned the English football club Chelsea. In 2016, Forbes valued the team at $1.66 billion.
Detail: in 2006, he donated 26 hectares of land near Moscow for the construction of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo. At the time, the site was valued at $52 million.

13. Mikhail Prokhorov
Owner of the Onexim group
Source of wealth: investments
Net worth: $8.9 billion
Age: 51 years
Marital status, children: not married
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow Financial Institute (1989).

Capital: cash from the sale of assets - $5 billion. UC Rusal stake (17%). NBA Brooklyn Nets.
Deal: in 2016, Prokhorov sold 20% of Uralkali to Belarusian businessman Dmitry Lobyak, a classmate of Uralchem ​​owner Dmitry Mazepin F 63. The transaction amount was estimated at $1.6 billion.
Personnel: Dmitry Razumov, CEO of the Onexim group since 2007.
Hobbies: basketball, martial arts.
Charity: in 2004 he founded the Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation. The total amount of funds allocated to the fund during its operation exceeded 2 billion rubles.
Yachts: Sold the 62-meter superyacht Solemar for €27.5 million in April 2016. He also owns the more expensive 100-meter long Palladium yacht, built in 2010.

14. Viktor Rashnikov
Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC MMK
Source of wealth: iron and steel industry
Net worth: $8.3 billion
Age: 68 years old
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region.
Education: Magnitogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute (1974).

Capital: stake in MMK (87.26%).
Court: Rashnikov's Snapbox company is trying to recover $134 million from the structures of developer Alexander Chigirinsky in Cyprus - its share after the sale of a joint project, the Evolution tower in Moscow City.
Synergy: at the beginning of 2016, MMK assessed the prospects of a merger with competitors - NLMK, Severstal and Evraz.
Toy: in 2015, Rashnikov bought a 140-meter yacht Ocean Victory, which ranks ninth on the list of the largest yachts in the world.
Detail: On December 2, 2016, the Ocean Victory yacht (76 m) previously owned by Rashnikov was arrested in the Netherlands at the request of the Swiss authorities, who are investigating the current owner of the boat, the vice president and son of the President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodorin Obiang.

15. Dmitry Rybolovlev
President of AS Monaco Football Club
Source of wealth: investments
Net worth: $7.3 billion
Age: 50 years
Marital status, children: divorced, two daughters
City of residence: Monaco

Capital: cash from the sale in 2010 of stakes in Uralkali (63%) and Silvinit (25%).
Transaction: In March 2017, he auctioned several paintings from his collection, including works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin and René Magritte. When selling them, he lost more than $120 million - that’s how much more the paintings cost Rybolovlev when he bought them through the mediation of the Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier. Previously, Rybolovlev lost more than $100 million during the sale of three paintings. He accused Bouvier of fraud and is suing him.
Toys: a house in Hawaii that belonged to actor Will Smith, worth $20 million, a penthouse in Monaco, two islands in Greece, previously owned by billionaire Aristotle Onassis.
Sports: since 2011 - the main owner of the Monaco football club.

16. Alexey Kuzmichev
Member of the Board of Directors of LetterOne Holdings and the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group
Source of wealth: oil, finance, communications, retail
Net worth: $7.2 billion
Age: 54 years
Marital status, children: married, son
City of residence: London
Education: Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (1988).

First business: in 1988, together with Mikhail Fridman F 7 (No. 7) and other friends from MISiS, he worked in the Courier and Alfa Photo cooperatives. In 1989, he participated in the creation of the Soviet-Swiss joint venture Alfa-Eco, the first Alfa Group company. In 2006, Alfa-Eco was renamed A1.
Capital: third after Mikhail Fridman and German Khan F 11 (No. 11) shareholder of LetterOne Holdings (Dea; Vimpelcom, 56.2%; Turkcell, 13.22%) and Alfa Group (Alfa Bank (90.1% ), X5 Retail Group (48%), “A1”, Rosvodokanal).
Detail: he is interested in contemporary art. Together with his wife Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya, director of the charitable project Project Perpetual, he is on the board of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

17. Andrey Skoch
State Duma Deputy
Source of wealth: metallurgy, telecommunications, Internet, airport
Net worth: $6.9 billion
Age: 51 years
Marital status, children: married, ten children
City of residence: Moscow

First business: in the early 1990s, I met Alisher Usmanov F ​​5, trying to get a batch of oil for processing at the Moscow Refinery. The deal did not take place, but a relationship began, and subsequently the businessmen became partners.
Capital: share in USM Holdings (30%), Vnukovo Airport (61.5%) (formally, the shares of Deputy Skoch are owned by his father, pensioner Vladimir Skoch).
Income: official declared income in 2015 - 276 million rubles.
Partners: Alisher Usmanov (No. 5), Farhad Moshiri, Ivan Streshinsky (No. 198), Ivan Tavrin F 199.
Politics: since 1999 - State Duma deputy. Member of the International Affairs Committee.
Sports: Honored Trainer of Russia in Sambo and Judo.

18. Sergey Galitsky
General Director of PJSC "Magnit"
Source of wealth: retail
Net worth: $6.8 billion
Age: 49 years old
Marital status, children: married, daughter
City of residence: Krasnodar
Education: Kuban State University (1993).

First business: in 1994 he founded the small wholesale trading company Transasia.
Capital: main shareholder of the Magnit retail chain (35.3%).
Figure: the company has 14,059 stores; over the year the network grew by 1,970 points.
The deal: in April 2016, Galitsky reduced his stake in Magnit’s capital from 38.7% to 35.3% in order to finance personal projects.
Trusted person: Vladimir Gordeychuk - General Director of Tander CJSC (until January 2017), 55 years old. Long-distance navigator, joined Galitsky's company in 1996.
Toy: Embraer Legacy business jet, Quantum Blue yacht.
Sports: owns FC Krasnodar. A stadium with 34,000 seats was built for the club.

19. Iskander Makhmudov
President of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company
Source of wealth: non-ferrous metallurgy, coal, transport
Net worth: $6.5 billion
Age: 53 years
Marital status, children: married, son
City of residence: Moscow

First business: in 1994, I met Andrei Kozitsyn (No. 28), Deputy General Director for Commerce at Uralelectromed, and with him bought shares in the enterprise that became the basis of UMMC.
Capital: stakes in UMMC, Kuzbassrazrezugol, Transmashholding, Kalashnikov Concern.
Partners: Andrey Kozitsyn F 28, Andrey Bokarev F 52.
Toy: yacht Predator (2008, 73 m, 28 knots).
Event: in 2015, he acquired 12.25% of the weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov Concern from Bokarev; now Makhmudov, Bokarev and their partner Alexey Krivoruchko equally own 49% of the company. Private shareholders invested more than 3 billion rubles in the modernization and development of production in two years; in 2015, Kalashnikov became profitable for the first time in seven years - $31 million with revenue of $122 million. In 2016, revenue increased to $241 million

20. Mikhail Gutseriev
Main owner of the Safmar group
Source of wealth: oil, coal, real estate, finance
Net worth: $6.3 billion
Age: 59 years old
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Dzhambul Technological Institute of Light and Food Industry (1981).

First business: in 1988, he created in Grozny one of the first cooperative banks in the USSR, Kavkaz, and the Soviet-Italian joint venture for the production of furniture, Chiital. In 1992, he founded the financial and industrial group BIN in Moscow.
Capital: RussNeft (43%), Neftisa (70%), B&N Bank (35.7%), Eldorado (50%), real estate.
Event: in 2016, the BIN group was renamed Safmar. The name is made up of the first letters of the names of Gutseriev’s parents - Safarbek and Marem.
Deal: in November 2016, the IPO of Russneft took place, during which the Gutseriev family gained $501 million from the sale of 20% of the company’s ordinary shares.
Hobby: writes poetry. Songs based on his poems are performed by Philip Kirkorov, Stas Mikhailov, Valeria, Joseph Kobzon and other popular singers.

21. Suleiman Kerimov
Member of the Federation Council
Source of wealth: investments
Net worth: $6.3 billion
Age: 51 years
Marital status, children: married, three children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Dagestan State University (1989)

Capital: the Kerimov family owns 61.38% of the shares of the Polyus company, Makhachkala International Airport.
Event: in 2016, Polyus Gold was renamed Polyus, 33.62% of the shares were sold, and the proceeds from the sale of $3.6 billion were used to pay off debts.
Transaction: in 2015, he sold the Moscow Hotel, which after reconstruction is called the Four Seasons Hotel Moscow, to Alexey Khotin F 110.
Politics: in 2003–2007, State Duma deputy from the LDPR and United Russia, since 2008 - member of the Federation Council from Dagestan.
Detail: in 2015, he sold his 90-meter yacht Ice to a representative of the clan of the President of Equatorial Guinea, Obiang.

22. Leonid Fedun
Chairman of the Board of Directors of IFD Capital
Source of wealth: oil, finance
Net worth: $6.3 billion
Age: 61 years
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Military Academy named after. F. E. Dzerzhinsky (1984).

First business: I worked part-time as a lecturer for the Knowledge Society. In 1987, he lectured in Kogalym, where he met Vagit Alekperov F 6. In 1995, he created the brokerage company Lukoil-Reserve-Invest, the basis of the future IFD Capital.
Capital: stake in Lukoil (9.8%). Together with Alekperov, he owns the IFD Capital group and Vadim Belyaev’s 19.9% ​​stake in Otkritie Holding OJSC.
Figure: $250 million received over the past year in the form of dividends from Lukoil.
Collection: collects works by Nicholas Roerich.
Sports: since 2003, owns FC Spartak.

23. Oleg Deripaska
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Basic Element, President of UC Rusal
Source of wealth: metallurgy, electricity, finance, airports, auto industry
Net worth: $5.1 billion
Age: 49 years old
Marital status, children: married, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow State University (1993), Russian Economic Academy (1996).

Capital: En+ holding, which owns stakes in the aluminum producer US Rusal and the electric power company Eurosibenergo. Deripaska also controls the GAZ Group (automobiles), Ingosstrakh (finance), Basel Aero (airports in the Krasnodar region) and the Kuban agricultural holding (agriculture).
Deal: in May 2016, Eurosibenergo bought 40% of Irkutskenergo from the state holding Inter RAO for 70 billion rubles.
Charity: Oleg Deripaska’s Volnoe Delo Foundation sponsors the robotics festival “RoboFest”, the all-Russian competition “School Principal”, a private shelter for dogs in Sochi “PovoDog” and other projects.

24. Peter Aven
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alfa Bank banking group
Source of wealth: oil, finance, communications
Net worth: $4.6 billion
Age: 62 years
Marital status, children: widower, two children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: Moscow State University (1977).

First business: in 1993, the former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation created the company “FinPA” (“Finance of Peter Aven”), which made money on transactions with external debts, in particular the debts of India and Ghana, as well as commercial debt of the former USSR.
Capital: is a shareholder of LetterOne Holdings (Dea; Vimpelcom, 56.2%; Turkcell, 13.22%), owns a stake in Alfa Bank (12.4% of shares).
Transaction: in October 2016, the Italian UniCredit transferred its Ukrsotsbank to the Alfa Bank banking group in exchange for a 9.9% stake in Alfa Bank BG.
Collection: owns the largest collection of Russian paintings of the early 20th century in Russia. On November 14, 2016, at Sotheby’s in New York, he purchased “Still Life” (1911) by Marc Chagall for $4.7 million.

25. Alexander Abramov
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Evraz Plc
Source of wealth: iron and steel industry
Net worth: $4.5 billion
Age: 58 years
Marital status, children: married, three children
City of residence: Moscow
Education: MIPT (1982)

First business: in the late 1980s, he sold medical equipment. In the 1990s, together with Alexander Frolov (No. 50), he gained control over three steel mills, on the basis of which the Evraz mining group was created.
Capital: Evraz (21.38%)
Deal: in the spring of 2013, he helped resolve the dispute between Vladimir Potanin F 8 and Oleg Deripaska F 23, purchasing together with Roman Abramovich F 12 5.87% of the Norilsk Nickel company.
Charity: founder of the Charitable Foundation for the Development of Innovative Education in the Field of Natural Sciences. The foundation pays scholarships to gifted students of physics and technology universities from low-income families.
Hobbies: fishing, swimming, tennis.

Top three: Leonid Mikhelson ($14.4 billion), Mikhail Fridman ($13.3 billion), Alisher Usmanov ($12.5 billion)

A notable newcomer to the ranking of Russian billionaires is a 34-year-old member of the board of directors of Sibur. Kirill Shamalov. The businessman is the youngest son of a longtime acquaintance of Russian President Vladimir Putin, co-owner of Rossiya Bank. Nikolai Shamalov. He also became the youngest billionaire in the ranking. In December 2015, Reuters reported on wedding of Kirill Shamalov and Katerina Tikhonova, which the agency and other media call daughter of President Putin.

[Forbes.ru, 04/14/2016, “Khodorkovsky and Lebedev returned to the Forbes list of 200 richest Russians”: Former top managers of the oil company YUKOS returned to the Forbes list of 200 richest businessmen in Russia in 2016 Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev, Vladimir Dubov And Mikhail Brudno. [...]
Before his arrest in 2003, Forbes estimated Khodorkovsky's fortune at $15 billion. He topped the first ranking of the 200 richest Russian businessmen, published in 2004. Now the former head of Yukos ranks 170th on the list with a fortune of $500 million.
Khodorkovsky is currently a private investor in the Quadrum Global fund, whose assets under management are estimated at $2 billion. The beneficiaries of the fund, along with Khodorkovsky, are his former Yukos partners Platon Lebedev, Vladimir Dubov and Mikhail Brudno. They were ranked 164th, 159th and 157th in the Forbes ranking, respectively, with a fortune of $500 million each. - Insert K.ru]

In the time since the publication of the previous list, the number of dollar billionaires in Russia has decreased from 88 to 77. 19 of them managed to increase their wealth, despite the crisis. Over the course of a year, the combined wealth of the 200 richest entrepreneurs in Russia decreased from $408 billion to $360 billion. This is the worst result since 2011, when Forbes increased the number of participants in the ranking from 100 to 200.

Russian Forbes publishes a ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia for the 13th time. The assessment of wealth, which is given in it, consists of the value of the assets owned by the businessman: shares of companies, land plots, real estate, as well as other property. Public companies are valued based on market capitalization, while private companies are valued based on sales volumes, profits, and equity. In addition, a comparison is made with similar companies that trade on the stock exchange or have been the subject of purchase and sale in the recent past. In the 2016 rating, the price of companies is fixed as of February 12, the age of participants is as of April 13. Original of this material
© "Russian Forbes", 04/14/2016

200 richest businessmen in Russia - 2016

What we thought

1. Our assessment of the entrepreneur’s condition is the value of the assets he owns: shares of companies, land plots, real estate, as well as personal property, etc.

2. All public companies are valued by market capitalization. Closed companies are valued based on information about sales volumes, profits, and equity; a comparison is made with similar companies that are traded on the stock exchange or have been the subject of purchase and sale in the recent past. We try to be conservative and evaluate the property of entrepreneurs on the principle of “at least not cheaper.”

3. In this list, the price of companies is fixed as of February 12, 2016. The ages of the list participants are as of April 15, 2016.

4. Russian entrepreneurs often transfer shares of their enterprises to their closest relatives. Given this circumstance, Forbes attributes all assets managed by an entrepreneurial family to the head of the family - if the relatives do not actively participate in the management of the company of which they are co-owners.

5. The list includes only those Russian citizens who earned the bulk of their capital privately, without being a civil servant.

6. The list includes only the 200 richest businessmen in Russia, the lower level of the ranking is a fortune of $350 million. If you did not find any famous entrepreneur on the list, then Forbes estimates his fortune at less than $350 million.

The information provided in the Forbes rating is an expert and journalistic assessment of the total volume of property ownership by the indicated persons. This information is not official and can only be used privately.

It would probably be difficult even for Forbes employees to calculate how many oligarchs there are in Russia: the country is large and the number of dollar millionaires in it is only increasing every year. However, in the TOP of the richest people in the Russian Federation, the same people compete for first place from year to year. So who are these Russian billionaires?

Oligarchs of Russia: photo, biography of Vladimir Potanin

In 2015, Potanin made his way into the oligarchs of Russia back in 2006: then the businessman became the sixth person in the country in terms of wealth. In 2007, the president of the Interros holding rose to 4th place. Then for several years he lost his position in the top five richest people in the country, until in 2015 he reached first place in the Forbes ranking.

Potanin once studied at MGIMO at the Faculty of International Economic Relations. In Soviet times, the future businessman was a member of the Komsomol and worked in the field of foreign trade of the USSR.

In the 90s, like many enterprising people, Potanin went into private business and founded one of the largest investment companies in Russia - Interros. A little later, Vladimir Olegovich received the post of vice president of MFK Bank and president of JSCB ONEXIM Bank. Thanks to loans-for-shares auctions in 1995, ONEXIM Bank became the owner of 51 percent of the shares of Norilsk Nickel. Today, Potanin has only 30.3% of the shares of MMC, but this was enough to turn him into the richest oligarch in Russia by 2015.

Mikhail Fridman

The list of Russian oligarchs has consistently included the owner of the Alfa Group consortium, Mikhail Fridman, for many years. In 2015, Fridman took second place in the Forbes ranking as the richest businessman in Russia.

And it all started with the fact that in the 1980s, Mr. Friedman resold scarce tickets to large ones and also organized discos. Then he decided to increase his income and created the Courier cooperative, which was engaged in window cleaning. In 1989, Friedman switched to selling photographic materials and computer equipment, and then began exporting oil. This is how the Alfa Group company appeared, which to this day feeds its creator.

But Friedman did not stop there and eventually joined the board of directors of Alfa Bank, invested in the mobile operator Life, the Belmarket and BelEvroset companies. Friedman also managed to visit the board of directors of the ORT association and the SIDANCO Oil Company.

Mikhail Fridman's personal capital in 2015 amounted to $14.6 billion.

Alisher Usmanov

Russian oligarchs often engage in charity work. In this regard, he is widely known for supporting the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team for many years, buying back and returning historical values ​​to Russia, and even returning Nobel medals to their owners (the case of Jason Watson). In 2013, Usmanov even became the No. 1 philanthropist among Russian businessmen according to Forbes.

For three years (from 2012 to 2014), Usmanov held the title of the richest businessman in Russia. But in 2015, he changed first place to third: his personal fortune decreased from 18 billion dollars to 14.4.

Alisher Burkhanovich began his career with the production of plastic bags. Today, the businessman is fed by shares in companies such as USM Holdings, Megafon, Mail.ru Group and DST Global, as well as UTV Holding. Since 2014, Alisher Usmanov has had full control over the famous social network VKontakte.

Victor Vekselberg

Russian oligarchs are included not only in domestic rankings of influential people, but also in foreign lists. Viktor Vekselberg, for example, was in 113th place in the TOP of the most influential and richest people in the world as of 2010. In 2015, the businessman ranked 4th in Russia in terms of wealth: Vekselberg’s personal assets amount to $14.2 billion.

Viktor Feliksovich made a huge fortune from the Renova company he founded. Over time, the company has grown into a large business group that owns shares in the enterprises UC Rusal, Integrated Energy Systems, Russian Utility Systems and many others. Vekselberg also owns shares in some Swiss companies, for example, Oerlikon and Sulzer.

Vekselberg likes to repeat in interviews that money is not only difficult to earn, but also difficult to use it correctly. Considering the stability of the entrepreneur’s income, he knows how to properly distribute his funds.

Alexey Mordashov

Alexey Mordashov, who is considered the actual owner of OJSC Severstal, in 2011 was in second place as the country's richest entrepreneurs. However, Russian oligarchs have pushed the businessman out of the list, and in 2015 he ranks only fifth with his personal capital of $13 billion.

Mordashov began his career at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. After some time, the businessman had already bought up all the shares of ChMK and put all the profits from the sale of metals to the West into his pocket. Today, the entrepreneur has 79% of the shares of the Severstal company, 88% of Nord Gold and 100% of the Power Machines enterprise.

Vagit Alekperov

In 2006, Vagit Alekperov had a personal capital of 12.7 billion rubles and took second place in the Forbes ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia. Since then, little has changed: Alekperov still has the same capital, but has dropped to sixth position on the list.

Vagit Yusufovich began his career in business in the 1980s, taking the post of General Director of Kogalymneftegaz. The entrepreneur did not leave the oil industry after the collapse of the Soviet Union and founded the LangepasUrayKogalymneft concern. Today, Vagit Alekperov has a 22.7% stake in Lukoil and, so to speak, is not in poverty.

Billionaires not only get rich, but sometimes go bankrupt. Every year the list called “former oligarchs of Russia” is replenished with new faces. Among them are such persons as banker Sergei Pugachev. Some bankrupt billionaires are wanted for embezzlement and embezzlement of property. They immigrate abroad, file lawsuits in European courts and try to defend their name in the press, claiming that the Russian authorities are to blame for all their troubles.

Business and politics have always been interconnected; in these areas there is always hidden and obvious confrontation. Everyone protects their interests in every possible way. Therefore, probably no one will ever know the real truth.

Millionaires of Russia - who are these people and how did they achieve their success? According to data for 2017, in Russia there are about 180 thousand dollar millionaires and more than 100 billionaires. Quite a good statistic, isn't it? The list of Russian millionaires is incredibly long and tedious (180 thousand people), it is impossible to list them all. And why do this?

Millionaires of Russia, who are they?

Not all of these people are businessmen, entrepreneurs and investors. Perhaps some inherited a tidy sum, while others, through connections, occupied some position where shady money-making schemes take place. And only a tiny percentage of people among these 180 thousand can truly surprise with their unique success story. Close interest is emerging in young millionaire businessmen. Everyone is interested in how the young man managed to amass a fortune that will last for the rest of his life. We present to your attention an article about young millionaires in Russia (up to thirty years old). Today we will discuss three amazing stories from which it follows that chance + observation = a million dollars. How many millionaires are there in Russia who follow this principle? That's right, just a few!

Vsevolod Strakh, 29 years old - owner of the Sotomarket company

At one time, the guy was very passionately interested in mobile technology and accessories. One day, Vsevolod started his business by purchasing a small batch of USB cables in bulk from China. At that time, Vsevolod was very lucky; his close friend studied in China and delivered the goods to Russia. Without thinking twice, Vsevolod Strakh creates an online store selling equipment and accessories. He's selling out of his USB cables at a fast pace. That period of time was considered the era of the birth of smartphones and other equipment, so these cables were in great demand among the Russian population and not only.

Things are going well, so are sales! As a result, Vsevolod saturates his online store “Sotomarket” with a new assortment and continues to earn money. A year and a half later, his website became incredibly popular - Fear earned his first million. Now the Sotomarket online store sells everything possible related to technology. The store has over a thousand employees and an annual cash turnover of $6 billion.

Oleg Gerasimov (28 years old) and Arkady Khokhlov (26 years old) - co-founders of Fast & Shine

When Oleg was a student, he was lucky enough to visit America and walk around New York. Here he saw for the first time how enterprising young people wash the cars of those standing at traffic lights for money. Oleg noticed that it only takes a minute for the car to sparkle clean and shiny. It was all about a unique detergent and a microfiber cloth. The result of washing the car was always the same - no streaks, just shine and cleanliness. Returning to his homeland, Oleg told his friend Arkady about this detergent. The guys seriously thought about how to distribute such a detergent in Russia. We purchased the first batch of everything we needed in America, returned home and began selling the goods to car enthusiasts. However, the unique American recipe failed to pass the test of harsh winter weather.

The guys did not give up, but continued to implement their idea, trying to come up with a super detergent.

Oleg Gerasimov and Arkady Khokhlov developed their own analogue of the American product, which was able to withstand Russian frosts. A year later, Fast & Shine earned its first million. A few years later, the company began to sell franchises throughout the post-Soviet space. Currently there are over 150 Fast & Shine stores throughout the CIS.

Semyon Kibalo, 29 years old - owner of UniFashion

This young man’s business dates back to his student years. Semyon studied in St. Petersburg and was an activist at his university. The guy helped organize various events and other public events. One day Semyon drew a mock-up of a “hoodie” (sweatshirt) with the symbolic logo of his “alma mater.” As a result, students began to take an interest in Semyon Kibalo’s initiative, and after a few weeks they were already buying sweatshirts.

A year later, the guy began to receive numerous requests from other Russian universities asking him to do the same for them. At the moment, Semyon Kibalo has a large number of contracts with the country's leading higher education institutions, and also has his own website UniFashion.ru. Semyon earns about $10 million annually. Decent income for a young man.

Conclusion

There are many millionaires in Russia. Often the schemes for making money are standard and of the same type. The whole point is in the idea. Stories in which people do what they love and then get rich doing it are surprising, motivating and exciting.

This article provides examples of how very young people are able to quickly implement their business plans and get rich, proving that anyone can become successful and wealthy.

Forbes magazine compiled a list of heirs of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia. There are 20 families in the ranking, where each child accounts for at least $2.3 billion. The total number of children in these families is 47. This year’s newcomer was the family of the largest shareholder of UC Rusal, Oleg Deripaska, who was replaced by the former owner of MDM Bank, Sergei Popov.

When compiling a list of the richest heirs in Russia, we divided the businessman’s fortune among all his recognized children. It turned out to be an interesting picture - the children of Roman Abramovich, for example, were not included in the list. The billionaire has seven of them, and each accounts for only $1.3 billion. But on the list you can see Iskander Makhmudov’s junior partner at UMMC Andrey Kozitsyn - his only daughter can claim his $4.3 billion so far.

The richest heir ($14.5 billion), as last year, was Yusuf Alekperov, the only son of Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov. In last, 20th place are the children of the chairman of the board of directors of the Alfa-Bank banking group, Peter Aven, Denis and Daria, each of them accounts for $2.3 billion.

Billionaires raise their heirs in different ways. Alekperov, for example, did everything to ensure that his son stayed in Russia and continued his work. Yusuf received a specialized education and, at the insistence of his father, worked as a simple engineer in various Lukoil companies.

Of all the children of billionaires, eight work in their fathers’ structures. These are Yusuf Alekperov, Jahangir Makhmudov, Alexander Vekselberg, Dmitry Lisin, Ksenia Frank (daughter of Gennady Timchenko), Olga Rashnikova, Said Gutseriev and Anastasia Potanina. Other participants in the Forbes heirs rating work in companies that are not owned by their parents, or do not work anywhere yet (out of 47 participants in the rating, only 21 completed their studies at universities).

The main owner of Alfa Group, Mikhail Fridman, for example, gives his children complete freedom of choice. He does not want to “create a dynasty” and does not intend to employ any of his four children.

The most notable events associated with the participants in the ranking of heirs include the engagement of the eldest daughter of LetterOne shareholder Herman Khan Eva to the London lawyer of Skadden Alex van der Zwan and the purchase by Said Gutseriev (son of the founder of the Safmar group Mikhail Gutseriev) of a controlling stake in the Ukrainian subsidiary » Sberbank. […]

[ Forbes. ru, 05.25.2017, “Russia’s richest heirs”:Bthis year the aggregate state of all96 Russian billionaires from the list Forbes amounted to $386 billion. They have a total of 274 children, that is, for each of the children of billionaires, on average, $1.4 billion of the wealth accumulated by their fathers falls. […]

The methodology for compiling the ranking is simple: we take a billionaire’s wealth and divide it by all recognized children. We do not take spousal shares into account in our calculations. We also do not take into account the statements of the list participants, in particular Mikhail Fridman and Vladimir Potanin, that they are not going to leave a lot of money to their children - all their assets will go to charity. - Insert K.ru]

State:$14.5 billion
Child: Yusuf Alekperov (1990)
One child's share:$14.5 billion

The son of the president of Lukoil is preparing to inherit his father’s business. The future billionaire has two honors diplomas. After graduating from the Russian State University of Oil and Gas named after. Gubkin with a degree in petroleum engineer, he worked as an engineer at Lukoil fields in Western Siberia.

Yusuf presented his second diploma, in economics and management, to his followers on Instagram in 2016, shortly before the wedding, after which he and his wife Alice went on a trip in luxury cars to the best resorts in Europe. Returning to Russia, I went to the dacha for barbecue and to Siberia for fishing.

State:$13.2 billion
Child: Tara Melnichenko (2012)
One child's share:$13.2 billion

The owner of the Eurochem and SUEK companies married Sandra Nikolic in 2005, the former lead singer of the Belgrade group Models, consisting of four Serbian beauties - professional models.

Melnichenko's daughter Tara is five years old. The girl travels with her parents all over the world - Melnichenko has houses in Russia, the USA, Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Monaco and the world's largest sailing yacht "A". While this new boat is being tested, the family travels on the old one - motor yacht "A". In April 2017, they were all photographed together on board a yacht in Portofino.

State:$18.4 billion
Children: Victoria Mikhelson (1992) and son (2015)
One child's share:$9.2 billion

The daughter of the main owner of the Novatek and Sibur companies, Leonid Mikhelson, Victoria studied art history in the United States at New York University. Her father created in 2009 a fund to support young Russian artists “Victoria - The Art of Being Modern” (V-A-C Foundation).

In 2016, Victoria became a member of the board of trustees of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. V-A-C is developing an art space in the building of GES-2 on Bolotnaya Embankment in Moscow; the cost of reconstruction is estimated by the architects at €150 million.

State:$7.2 billion
Child: Alexis Kuzmichev (2009)
One child's share:$7.2 billion

The son of Alexey Kuzmichev, a partner of Mikhail Fridman and German Khan at LetterOne, lives and studies at school in Paris. His mother Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya, a former employee of the American PR agency Hill & Knowlton, is passionate about contemporary art and is on the boards of trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA PS1. She organized the charitable project Project Perpetua - with the participation of famous figures of contemporary art, fundraising events are held to help children, in particular vaccinations, around the world.

State:$6.8 billion
Child: Polina Galitskaya (1995)
One child's share:$6.8 billion

The daughter of the owner of the Magnit chain graduated from Krasnodar gymnasium N54 and is now studying at Kuban State University in a bachelor’s program in economics. Several years ago, Galitsky told the Vedomosti newspaper: “I want my child to grow up to be a normal child, and I don’t want my daughter to go into business, because a woman and a business are different concepts.” He believes that he does not have the right to “model the life” of a child to his liking, but in an interview with Forbes he admitted that at one time he dissuaded Polina from enrolling in the Faculty of Foreign Languages.

State:$6.5 billion
Child: Jahangir Mahmudov (1987)
One child's share:$6.5 billion

The son of the main shareholder of UMMC, after graduating from the London School of Economics and Hult Business School, works as Deputy General Director for Commercial and Financial Affairs of the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant. Together with Kenes Rakishev, a businessman from Kazakhstan, he is a partner in the Israeli venture fund Singulariteam, which invests in projects in the field of artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented and virtual reality. “We are positive about the work done and plan to increase our activities in this industry,” Jahangir told Forbes.

State:$12.4 billion
Children: Irina Vekselberg (1979), Alexander Vekselberg (1988)
One child's share:$6.2 billion

The daughter and son of the owner of the Renova Group of Companies graduated from Yale University. Alexander works in the USA at Renova's venture fund Columbus Nova Technology Partners (CNTP). Irina lives in Moscow with her husband, entrepreneur Salavat Rezbaev, founder of New Age Capital Partners (renamed Trilogy Capital Group in February 2017). The company specializes in Russian-Chinese transactions, Rezbaev is the chairman of the board of directors, and Irina is his advisor. Before that, she worked as a financial analyst at Citigroup and was involved in M&A at Renova.

State:$16.1 billion
Children: Dmitry Lisin (1981), Yuri Lisin (1984), Anastasia Lisina (1998)
One child's share:$5.4 billion

The children of the NLMK owner try to avoid publicity, and they succeed. The eldest son Dmitry graduated from the London School of Economics and the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. He is on the board of directors of enterprises owned by his father - the First Freight Company, North-Western Shipping Company, the shipping company Volga Shipping Company and Rumedia (radio stations Business FM and Radio Chocolate).

State:$16 billion
Children: Natalya, Ksenia Frank (1985), Ivan Timchenko (1995)
One child's share:$5.3 billion

The eldest daughter Natalya studied English literature at Oxford. Then she returned to Russia, where, according to Forbes sources, she took up cinema. The youngest daughter, Ksenia, graduated from the University of Edinburgh, where she studied philosophy and French. Her husband is Gleb Frank, the son of Sovcomflot CEO Sergei Frank. Ksenia is on the board of directors of Transoil. In 2014, my father transferred to Ksenia his 12.5% ​​stake in Sogaz. Timchenko's son Ivan studies international relations at the University of Geneva.

State:$4.3 billion
Child: Maria Kozitsyna (1999)
One child's share:$4.3 billion

In the summer of 2015, the only daughter of the general director of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC) graduated from the Lomonosov Intek school in the Istra district of the Moscow region with a gold medal “For special achievements in education”, after which she entered the Faculty of Economics of the Higher School of Economics (HSE). According to the results of the first semester of the 2016/2017 academic year, Maria Andreevna Kozitsyna took 182nd place in the overall ranking of 269 second-year undergraduate students at the Faculty of Economics at HSE, with an average score of 6.14 out of 10 possible.

State:$8.3 billion
Children: Tatyana Rakhno, Olga Rashnikova (1977)
One child's share:$4.15 billion

The eldest daughter of the owner of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Tatyana, took part in the management of the company in the mid-2000s, but then decided to start her own business. According to Kontur-Focus, Tatyana Viktorovna Rakhno owns the construction company Rekonstruktsiya. The youngest daughter Olga has been working in her father’s company for 12 years. Now she is a member of the board of directors and head of the finance department of the Moscow representative office of MMK. She owns a third of the Magnitogorsk Energy Company, part of the MMK group, and two villas (Villa les Figuiers and Villa Nellcote) in France.

State:$7.3 billion
Children: Ekaterina Rybolovleva (1989), Anna Rybolovleva (2001)
One child's share:$3.65 billion

In October 2015, the eldest daughter of the former owner of Uralkali married financier from Uruguay Juan Sartori. The wedding took place on the Greek island of Skorpios, which Rybolovlev gave to his daughter several years before. The couple now lives in Switzerland, London and the USA. Ekaterina has been interested in horses since childhood and participates in competitions. The youngest daughter Anna lives in Geneva with her mother Elena Rybolovleva, who in 2015 received $600 million from her ex-husband and was included in the Forbes list.

State:$14.4 billion
Children: Laura Friedman (1993), Katya Friedman (1996), Alexander Ozhelsky (2000), Nika Ozhelskaya (2006)
One child's share:$3.6 billion

"The worst thing I could do for my children is hand them a large sum of money," Friedman told Forbes in 2016. He also does not intend to employ his children either at Alfa Group or at LetterOne. His eldest daughter Laura graduated from Yale University in 2015, where she studied economics, and returned to Paris. While studying, she danced with the YaleDancers ballet troupe. The middle daughter, Katya, is studying history at Yale. Son Sasha studies in England, and youngest daughter Nika lives with her mother in Moscow.

State:$6.3 billion
Children: Said Gutseriev (1988), Sofya Gutserieva (1990)
One child's share:$3.15 billion

The son of the founder of the Safmar group, Mikhail Gutseriev, Said lived for 17 years in England and received a second citizenship there. After graduating from Harrow he studied at Oxford. He later received a Master's degree from the University of Plymouth, specializing in oil and gas industry management. After that, he worked at Glencore, and at the end of 2014 he returned to Russia to head the ForteInvest oil company, part of Safmar. Said owns 10% of the Eldorado network. In March 2017, he became the main buyer of the Ukrainian subsidiary of Sberbank. His sister studies at Moscow State University at the Faculty of Foreign Languages.

State:$6.3 billion
Children: Anton Fedun (1985), Ekaterina Fedun (1988)
One child's share:$3.15 billion

The son of Lukoil co-owner Anton Fedun in 2012 married Alina Uspenskaya, winner of the Miss Russian Radio Cherepovets - 2007 contest. The couple lives in London. Anton graduated from the University of Surrey with a degree in Management and Tourism and Regents Business School, completed a hotel management course at Bond University in Australia and today manages his own hotel, The Ampersand Hotel in Kensington. His sister Ekaterina graduated from MGIMO and also Regents. In 2014, she married Juhan Geraskin, then manager of FC Spartak, which her father owns.

State:$17.5 billion
Children: Ilya Mityukov (1986), Kirill Mordashov (1999), Nikita Mordashov (2000), Daniil Mordashov (2014), Anastasia Mordashova (2012), Maria Mordashova (2009)
One child's share:$2.9 billion

Mordashov divorced his first wife Elena Mityukova in 1996, when his son Ilya was 10 years old. From his second wife, also Elena, he has two sons - Kirill and Nikita. “It worries me that I had little contact with my son while he was growing up. And I don’t communicate much with younger children either. Now it’s Saturday, I’ve just flown in from Moscow and I’m sitting at the factory, giving an interview. But I should have been walking with the baby,” Mordashov told Vedomosti in 2001. Now he devotes more time to his family. With his third wife Marina, he has three children. The eldest daughter Masha studies at the Wunderpark school in New Riga, which was opened by her mother.

State:$14.3 billion
Children: Anastasia Potanina (1984), Ivan Potanin (1989), Vasily Potanin (2000), Varvara Potanina (2012), Son (2014)
One child's share:$2.86 billion

The eldest children of the co-owner of Norilsk Nickel, Anastasia and Ivan, had a common interest for a long time - aquabike. Over the years of performing at Russian and world competitions, they have won several dozen championship titles. Both are no longer involved in professional sports. Ivan works as an analyst at the investment company LR Global. In 2012, he and his wife, whom Ivan Potanin met at school, had a son, Andrei. Anastasia helps her father manage the Rosa Khutor ski resort. She also organized the Artis project, which aims to popularize young Russian artists.

State:$5.1 billion
Children: Maria Deripaska (2003), Petr Deripaska (2001)
One child's share:$2.55 billion

In 2001, Deripaska married Polina Yumasheva, the daughter of Valentin Yumashev, the former chief of staff of President Boris Yeltsin. Later, in an interview with SNC magazine, Polina Deripaska admitted that she “fell in love with him at first sight.” The marriage produced two children - both heirs of Oleg Deripaska are non-public.

State:$9.3 billion
Children: Eva Khan (1995), Eleanor Khan (2001), Son (2005), Son (2012)
One child's share:$2.3 billion

The eldest daughter of LetterOne co-owner Herman Khan is marrying London-based Skadden lawyer Alex van der Zwan. The wedding will take place in Europe this summer. Alex spent his last Christmas holidays with the Khan family in the Maldives. Eva lives in London and studies art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her younger sister Elya studies at Wellington College in Berkshire. In December 2016, Elya told Tatler magazine: “We live in rooms of ten people. But I made a lot of friends there and learned what it means to be a leader.”

State:$4.6 billion
Children: Daria Aven (1994), Denis Aven (1994)
One child's share: 2.3 billion

The children of LetterOne shareholder and chairman of the board of directors of the Alfa-Bank banking group, Peter Aven, graduated from Yale University in 2016 and remained to work in New York. Denis, who studied economics and mathematics, works as an analyst at the international investment company Lazard, which specializes in financial consulting and asset management. His sister Daria works as a product development coordinator at the New York company MAC Cosmetics. She is interested in art, and during her studies she interned at the Sotheby’s auction house.

Elena Berezanskaya