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1. Roman Abramovich – Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian billionaire businessman, investor, and politician. Abramovich is the owner of the private investment company, Millhouse LLC and is best known outside Russia as the owner of Chelsea Football Club. According to Forbes 2016 billionaire list, Abramovichs net worth was US$7.6 billion, making him the 13th richest person in Russia, the same year, The Sunday Times estimated his net worth at ₤6.40 billion. Abramovich started his business during his army service. After a brief stint in the Soviet Army, Abramovich married his first wife, Abramovich first worked as a street-trader and then as a mechanic at a local factory. At the peak of perestroika, Abramovich sold imported rubber ducks from his Moscow apartment, Abramovich attended the Gubkin Institute of Oil and Gas in Moscow, then traded commodities for Runicom, a Swiss trading company. In 1988, as opened up opportunities for privatization in the Soviet Union. He and Olga set up a company making dolls, within a few years his wealth spread from oil conglomerates to pig farms and he also started investing in other businesses. Abramovich set up and liquidated at least 20 companies during the early 1990s, in sectors as diverse as tyre retreading and bodyguard recruitment. From 1992 to 1995, Abramovich founded five companies that conducted resale, produced consumer goods, Abramovich co-operated with the investigation, and the case was closed after the oil production factory was compensated by the diesels buyer, the Latvian-US company, Chikora International. In 1995, Abramovich and Boris Berezovsky, an associate of President Boris Yeltsin, the fast-rising value of the company led many observers, in hindsight, to suggest that the real cost of the company should have been in the billions of dollars. Abramovich later admitted in court that he paid bribes to government officials and obtained protection from gangsters to acquire these. Thus the main stages of Abramovichs financial career were January 1989 to May 1991, as chairman of the Comfort Co-op, according to various sources, from 1992 to 1995 Roman Abramovich set up five companies engaged in the production of consumer goods and selling-and-buying. In May 1995, jointly with Boris Berezovsky, he set up the P. K. In 1999, and now a tycoon, Abramovich was elected governor of Russias remote, far eastern province of Chukotka and he began selling oil from Noyabrsk. Eventually, he met fellow Russian businessman and entrepreneur Boris Berezovsky, according to two different sources, he first met Berezovsky either at a meeting of the Russian businessmen in the Caribbean in 1993 or in the summer of 1995 on the yacht of his friend Pyotr Aven. Together with Berezovsky, Abramovich founded the offshore company Gibraltar-registered Runicom Ltd. Abramovich headed the Moscow affiliate of the Swiss firm, Runicom S. A. In August 1995, Sibneft was created by Boris Yeltsin’s presidential decree and it was rumored that Abramovich was the chief of the organization with Berezovsky promoting the business in higher circles
2. Aras Agalarov – Aras Agalarov is an Azerbaijani businessman, developer, public figure and author of Russia, Reflections on the Way to the Market. Born in Baku, Agalarov was educated at the Azerbaijan Polytechnical Institute, Agalarov then opened the first Crocus Inter store, which became a retail business that includes malls offering housewares. This moved him into property development, where he built the Crocus City Mall, adjacent to this he then built the largest trade center in Russia on the outskirts of Moscow, Crocus Expo, and has since developed a luxury housing development. Agalarov has served as a liaison between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, according to an interview, they once discussed the construction of a Trump Tower in Russia. Agalarov had also tried to set up a meeting between the two, but this was canceled due to Putin having to meet the Dutch royal couple at the time. Putin instead sent Trump a fedoskino miniature, as of January 2017, he had an estimated net worth of US$1.32 billion, most of which is derived from his real estate ventures. Agalarov is married and has two children, his son Emin Agalarov is a businessman and singer/songwriter, Emin was married to Leyla Aliyeva, the daughter of the current President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev until they divorced in May 2015. Agalarov has two twin boy grandchildren from his sons marriage
3. Vagit Alekperov – Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov is an Azerbaijani and Russian businessman, the president of the leading Russian oil company LUKOIL. He is currently rated by Forbes magazine as the eighth richest person in Russia with a net worth of $12.3 billion, Alekperov was born in Baku, one of the earliest centers of the international petroleum industry. His father, who died when Vagit was a boy, worked in the oilfields all his life, alekperovs father was a Muslim and his mother, Russian Orthodox. Alekperov is religious, but does not define himself as either Muslim or Orthodox and he was eighteen when he landed his first job in the industry. Alekperov graduated in 1974 from Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, as a student he also worked as a drilling operator in Kaspmorneft, a Caspian regional production company. After graduation, he continued to work there, and by 1979 he had advanced from engineer to deputy head of a production unit and he had to work in extreme conditions on oil platforms. On one occasion, an explosion on his rig threw him into the stormy Caspian sea, Alekperov moved to Western Siberia in 1979 and worked at Surgutneftegaz between 1979 and 1985, earning his reputation as an industry expert. He was ascending positions and by 1985 became first deputy director of Bashneft production company. In 1987, he became director of the newly created production company Kogalymneftegaz. In 1990, Alekperov was appointed deputy minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the Soviet Union, in April 1993, Langepas-Uray-Kogalymneft became LUKoil Oil Company, with Alekperov as its president. Alekperov has remained president of LUKoil since that time, employing more than 100,000 people, today LUKoil is among the worlds most powerful oil companies, with reserves second only to Exxon. LUKoil has been the first Russian company to acquire an American company, in November 2000, LUKoil acquired Getty Petroleum Marketing and its 1,300 gas stations in the United States Like many other Russian oligarchs, Alekperov has also moved into banking and media. In May 2006 Alekperov was one of the two owners of IFD Kapital Group. Alekperov is married to Larisa Victorovna Alekperova and has a son Yusuf born in 1990, List of Azerbaijanis List of Russian billionaires Biography of Vagit Alekperov Lukoil Executive’s Death Exposes Network of Inside Deals, by Glenn R. Simpson, December 6th,2006 Business Russia
4. Petr Aven – Petr Olegovich Aven is an International businessman, economist and politician. He heads Alfa-Bank, Russias largest commercial bank and he is a member of the Board of Directors at LetterOne Group. L1 Group was established in 2013 to invest in projects in energy, telecommunications. In his review of the book, John Lloyd of the Financial Times called it “an illuminating study of the reformers who sought to revive Russia’s post- Soviet economy. ”In 2015 he was named number 301 in the richest people in the world, with a worth of around $5.1 billion. Born in Moscow, his father, professor of computer science Oleg Aven, was half Latvian and half Russian and his paternal grandfather Janis Aven was a Latvian rifleman. Petr Aven graduated from Moscow State University in 1977 and holds a PhD in Economics, in 1993 he joined the Russias Choice movement and was a candidate for State Duma. In October 1994, Aven met Alfa Groups Mikhail Fridman, from 1994 until June 2011, he served as the President of Alfa-Bank Russia. In 2012, the Alfa Group together with Viktor Vekselberg of Renova Group, in 2013, Aven joined the Board of LetterOne Group, an international investment business founded by Mikhail Fridman and focused on the telecoms, technology and energy sectors. The L1 Group owns companies – and has equity investments in companies – with operations in 32 countries around the world, LetterOne acquired assets from German utility business E. ON in October 2015, in a deal worth $1. 6bn, in the following month, LetterOne also announced their intention to deal with Brazilian telecoms company Oi SA, and boost their presence in the mobile phone sector there. Petr Aven holds a number of public facing positions, A member of the Endowment Foundation Board of Trustees of the New Economic School, a trustee of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in Great Britain. A member of the Board of Trustees of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, a trustee of the Board of National Association for National Financial Reporting Standards. A member of the Council of Trustees of the Russian Olympians Foundation, a professor at State University Higher School of Economics. A member of President’s Council on International Activities of Yale University, a member of the Presidium of Russian International Affairs Council. Since April 2006, Petr Aven has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Union of Industrialists, in 2007, Mr. Aven became Chairman of the Russia-Latvian Business Council. Mr. Yale University Press and the Kiel Institute of World Economics, Aven is a visitor to Western capitals where he gives lectures on economic developments in Russia. He has received a number of awards, including the best manager in the financial services sector in Russia in 2004 by Institutional Investor. Petr Aven is a supporter of the arts and theatre in Russia, Aven is also a recognised art collector
5. Yelena Baturina – Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina is a Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist. She used to own major investment and construction company Inteco, presently, she owns a hotel chain and is the founder of BE OPEN philanthropic foundation. Baturina is still Russias richest woman and the only Russian woman worth more than a billion dollars and she is the 1557th richest person in the world currently, after tumbling from a much higher wealth. Her husband, Yury Luzhkov, was mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010, Baturina is a Moscow native who began working as a design-technician at the Fraser plant after graduating from high school. She later got a degree, graduating from the Moscow-based S. Ordzhonikidze State University of Management in 1986, Baturina met her future husband, Yury Luzhkov, in 1987 when they were both serving at Mosgorispolkom, a Soviet-era municipal commission. At the period of their co-working the relationships were purely professional, in one of her interviews Baturina remembers, “We never even thought about anything like that when we were working together, it all happened much later”. Baturina and Luzhkov married in 1991, the next year he became mayor of Moscow. In 2010 he was dismissed by President Dmitry Medvedev amidst still unproven accusations of corruption, Yury himself had at one time been tipped to run for president, though he never did. After her husband’s dismissal Baturina moved to London and she explains the choice of the city by the fact that her two daughters were studying in London. He also said that a house had been bought in the west of the city for them, Luzhkov also claimed that the Russian authorities were planning to break up Baturinas business empire and that the couple would fight the attempt, We will not give up. My wife will battle for her business and for her honour, in September 2009 The Sunday Times erroneously stated that Witanhurst, a large house in Highgate, North London, had been bought by Baturina, via an offshore front company. Baturina sued the owners, Times Newspapers, a subsidiary of News International. Times Newspapers apologized for the story and paid damages to her in October 2011, in 1989 Baturina launched her first enterprise with her elder brother Victor, primarily dealing with software and hardware for computers. In 1991 Baturina founded her company, Inteco, which focuses on construction though it began as a plastics business, in 1994 Inteco purchased a plastic factory. In 1998 the company won the contract for producing 85,000 seats for Luzhniki Stadium, the critics claimed that the decision was affected by Luzhkov as Mayor of Moscow, though Inteco stated that their price was 50% less than their nearest competitor’s. In 2001 Inteco acquired from a person the controlling stake in one of the leading house-building factories in Moscow DSK-3. Following modernization the construction plant provided 500,000 square meters of housing per year and this acquisition, according to Baturina’s interviews, became the starting point for the company’s major construction activity. “DSK-3 is my first real step into construction, I had been viewing the market for a long time
6. Boris Berezovsky (businessman) – Boris Abramovich Berezovsky was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Berezovsky was politically opposed to the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, since Putins election in 2000 and remained a vocal critic of Putin for the rest of his life. In Russia he was convicted in absentia of fraud and embezzlement. The first charges were brought during Primakovs government in 1999, Berezovsky made his fortune in Russia in the 1990s when the country went through privatization of state property. He profited from gaining control over assets, including the countrys main television channel, Channel One. In 1997 Forbes magazine estimated Berezovskys wealth at US$3 billion, Berezovsky helped fund Unity – the political party, which formed Vladimir Putins parliamentary base, and was elected to the Duma on Putins slate. However, following the Russian presidential election in March 2000, Berezovsky went into opposition, after he moved to Britain, the government took over his television assets, and he divested from other Russian holdings. In 2012, Berezovsky lost a London High Court case he brought over the ownership of Sibneft against Roman Abramovich, the court concluded that Berezovsky had never been a co-owner of Sibneft. Berezovsky was found dead at his home, Titness Park, at Sunninghill, near Ascot in Berkshire, a post-mortem examination found that his death was consistent with hanging and that there were no signs of a violent struggle. However the coroner at the inquest into Berezovskys death later recorded an open verdict, Boris Abramovich Berezovsky was born in 1946, in Moscow, to Abram Markovich Berezovsky, a Jewish civil engineer in construction works, and his wife, Anna Aleksandrovna Gelman. Berezovsky always stressed his Jewish heritage, although by Orthodox Jewish law he was not Jewish and he studied applied mathematics, receiving his doctorate in 1983. Berezovsky conducted research on optimization and control theory, publishing 16 books, in 1989 Berezovsky took advantage of the opportunities presented by perestroika to found LogoVAZ with Badri Patarkatsishvili and senior managers from AvtoVAZ. LogoVAZ developed software for AvtoVAZ, sold Soviet-made cars and serviced foreign cars, the dealership profited from hyperinflation by taking cars on consignment and paying the producer at a later date when the money lost much of its value. One of Berezovskys early endeavours was AVVA, a fund he formed in 1993 with Alexander Voloshin. Berezovsky controlled about 30% of the company, which raised nearly US$50 million from investors through a bonded loan to build a plant producing a peoples car. The project did not collect sufficient funds for the plant and the funds were invested into AvtoVAZ production. By 2000 AVVA held about one-third of AvtoVAZ, in 1994 Berezovsky was the target of the car bombing incident, but survived the assassination attempt, in which his driver was killed and he was injured. Berezovskys involvement in the Russian media began in December 1994, when he gained control over ORT Television to replace the failing Soviet Channel 1 and he appointed the popular anchorman and producer Vladislav Listyev as CEO of ORT
7. Vladimir Bogdanov – Vladimir Leonidovich Bogdanov is a Russian businessman and oil tycoon. In 1973 he graduated from Tyumen Industrial Institute with a degree in oil and gas and since then has worked in oil industry in Tyumen Oblast, since 1993, he is the President of Surgutneftegaz, one of the largest Russian oil companies. In 1978-1980 he occupied leading positions in Yuganskneftegaz, since 1984 he has been the Director General of Surgutneftegaz, which became a private company in 1993. In June 2001 Forbes claimed that Bogdanov was the third wealthiest Russian with $1.6 billion and he has been a member of the Khanty–Mansi legislature since 1996. Bogdanov was also a confidant of Sergey Sobyanin during the successful 2001 Tyumen Oblast Governor election and of Vladimir Putin during the 2004 Russian Presidential Election
8. Oleg Boyko – Oleg Boyko is the principal investor and beneficiary of Finstar Financial Group, an international diversified private equity firm with assets under management exceeding $2 billion. Oleg Boyko is a businessman with interests spanning Europe, the US. He currently occupies the 61st spot in the Forbes Russia ranking with a wealth estimated at $1.3 billion. Oleg Boyko was born in Moscow in 1964 and he worked at the Lomonosov Moscow State University between 1982 and 1986. Boyko’s business interests include banking, financial services, retail, leisure, heavy industry, media, in 1999 Boyko was a joint investor in EvrazHolding along with Alexander Abramov, combining three steel mills and thereby creating one of the world’s largest vertically-integrated steel producers. In 2002, Boyko founded Ritzio Entertainment Group, investing in casinos and gaming, in 2010, Boyko became an investor in lottery businesses in Russia and Ukraine, including the national lottery to support the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. He has subsequently disposed of all his lottery interests, in 2003, Finstar purchased a controlling stake in a Latvian commercial bank, Baltic Trust Bank. In 2006, Finstar sold its 79% stake to GE Capital, in 2006 Boyko entered the real estate market through a new holding company, Finstroy. In 2004, Boyko sold his 20% stake in EvrazHolding for approximately $600 to $700 million prior to its listing on the London Stock Exchange, in 2006, under Boyko, Finstar acquired 75% of Russia’s second largest cosmetics and perfumery chain, Rive Gauche. In 2012, Boyko sold 51% of his stake to a consortium of investors, in 2013, Boyko announced Finstar’s investment in FashionTV, a fashion channel which broadcasts in 192 countries. In 2016, Boyko’s Finstar furthered its tech investments by announcing its acquisition of a 51% stake in Prestamos Prima, Boyko founded the Parasport foundation in 2006, during the Paralympic Winter Games in Turin. The Foundation offers funding for Paralympic athletes to train and attend competitions and obtain physical and mental health care, recently the Foundation became the official partner of the Russian Paralympic Committee, and has established a presence in Asia. In 2016, Boyko co-hosted its 10th anniversary celebration with an event in Moscow, since 2006 Boyko has also been the Head of the Paralympic Movement Development Committee of the Russian Paralympic Committee
9. Oleg Deripaska – He is now considered to be among the richest men in Russia, with an estimated net worth of US$5.4 billion as of April 2017. Through stakes in companies, Deripaska is also involved in a broad range of industries, including energy, machinery, financial services. Deripaska was born in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, and grew up in Ust-Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai, Deripaska was raised on the familys small farm, where from the age of 5 or 6 his grandparents instructed him to learn everything about the land to survive. Deripaska credits his grandparents for teaching him the discipline of hard work and they taught the details of farming, including when and how to plant, grow and harvest. Both his grandfathers fought in the Second World War, one was killed in battle and buried in a grave in Austria. Deripaskas first job was at the Ust-Labinsk plant where his mother worked, at age 11, he became an electricians apprentice doing maintenance on electrical motors. Deripaska acquired a passion for reading, his favorite authors were Mayne Reid, today, Basic Elements headquarters contain walls of books, reflecting Deripaskas lifelong love of reading. His talent for math allowed him to enroll at the faculty of Moscow State University in 1985. One year into his studies, he was conscripted into the forces and served in the Soviet armys Strategic Missile Forces in the Trans-Baikal area, Siberia. In 1993, Deripaska graduated with honors in physics from Moscow State University, after graduation from Moscow State University, the collapse of the Soviet Union eliminated academic funding and made it impossible for Deripaska continue to his studies as a theoretical physicist. There were no stipends or grants for students either and it was an urgent and practical question every day. How do I earn money to buy food and keep studying, at the age of 25, teaming up with fellow physicists, engineers and rocket scientists, Deripaska set up his first metal trading company, VTK. He adopted a systematic, scientific approach to commodity trading, I represented companies that were buying and selling raw materials, Deripaska said. Deripaska undertook export arbitrage, buying metal at low Russian prices, Deripaska traded primarily through the Baltic state of Estonia as the Russian system of export licenses was in disarray. I started my business at a moment in history. The country in which I was born raised had disappeared, although the new country was not fully formed, the first one gave me an excellent education, the second one gave me the chance of success, Deripaska recalled in an interview with Metal Bulletin. He used nearly all his arbitrage and trading profits to acquire his initial package of shares in the Sayanogorsk Aluminium Smelter, in 1994, Deripaska became director general of the plant at the age of 26. In 1997, the became the core asset of Sibirsky Aluminium Group
10. Vladislav Doronin – Vladislav Doronin is an international businessman and real estate developer. He is the founder of Moscow-based Capital Group, owner and chairman of Aman, Vladislav Doronin was born on November 7,1962 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, He graduated from the Moscow Lomonosov State University. In 1991, he launched the ‘Capital Group’, in 1985, he relocated to Geneva and then to Zug, where he worked under Marc Rich. Doronin started ‘Capital Group’ in 1991 as a commodity trading company, in 1993, Capital Group entered the Moscow commercial real estate market with class A offices and retail projects. Over time, its portfolio expanded with deluxe and business class residential developments, Capital Group has built up its portfolio to include 71 high-end residential and commercial projects with a total of 7 million square meters of space. In February 2014, Vladislav Doronin became Aman Groups majority owner, the Aman Group is the holding company of Aman Resorts, a collection of international luxury resorts. In July 2014, Doronin and a minor shareholder were involved in a dispute regarding leadership of the group. As of September 2014, that dispute was not fully resolved. In March 2016, the High Court in London confirmed that a settlement had reached between Doronin and KPMG, liquidators for Amanats PHRL company. The new holding company of the hotel chain is called AH Overseas Ltd. As a result of the settlement, Doronin has full control over Aman Resorts, in April 2015, Vladislav Doronin partnered with luxury property developer Michael Shvo in a $500m acquisition of floors 4–24 of the Crown Building on Fifth Avenue in New York. Doronin owned the rights in Germany and Russia to Interview magazine. Doronin has an apartment in Capital City, a complex he developed in Moscow in 2003. His residence is a designed by the Italian architect Massimo Iosa Ghini. He also owns a residence outside of Moscow designed by architect Zaha Hadid. In August 2016, Doronin was included in Surface Magazine’s Power 100 list of prominent individuals, including 15 in real estate, according to Building. ru Doronin is one of the top ten most professional developers in Russia. Doronin was acknowledged as the head of the list of “Top 1000 Russian Managers Rating 2011, Doronin was named one of the “Kings of Russian Real Estate” by Forbes in 2014. In 2015, the New York Post recognized Doronin on their list of The 20 biggest power players in New York City real estate, Vladislav Doronins Personal Website Surface Magazine Interview
11. Leonid Fedun – Leonid Arnoldovich Fedun is a Russian billionaire businessman. His estimated wealth as of 2016 is $4.8 billion, Fedun, a former Russian military officer, is a close associate of Vagit Alekperov, the CEO of Russian oil company Lukoil. Fedun owns 9. 2% of Lukoil shares and the Russian football club Spartak Moscow and he was awarded of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 4th Order and the Order of Honour. In November 1992, he went into business and founded the company Neftkonsult LLP, in 1993, Fedun was officially Dismissed from the Russian military and within the same year became the CEO of JSC. In 1996, Fedun became the Vice President of LUKoil Inc, Fedun met Alekperov in the 1980s while he was a teacher in Kogalym, a Siberian city. In May 2006 Fedun was one of the two owners of IFD Kapital Group. He is married, has two children and lives in Moscow
12. Andrey Filatov – Andrey Vasilievich Filatov is a Russian entrepreneur. Filatov is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tuloma investment company, Andrey Filatov is also President of the Russian Chess Federation and vice president of the International Chess Federation. He is Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, completed secondary education at Junior Sporting School 9 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, USSR. Got ranked Candidate for Master of Sport of the USSR, in 1993, graduated from the Academy of Physical Education and Sports of the Republic of Belarus with the diploma of Sport Instructor and Chess Coach. At the Academy met and made friends with such players as Ilya Smirin. In 1996, together with his partners Konstantin Nikolaev and Nikita Mishin founded Severstaltrans, of which was Member of the Board of Directors, Andrey Filatov is a member of the Economic Council of the French-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In 2015 was awarded the title of Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts for his contribution to the development and popularization of Russian, Andrey Filatov is Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor Medal. Led by His Excellency the Ambassador of France to Russia Mr. Jean-Maurice Ripert, in 2016 for merits in development of physical culture and sports Andrey Filatov was honored with the Russian Medal of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland. The award was given to Andrey Filatov by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on June 10,2016, in 2016 Andrey Filatov was awarded with a bronze medal as senior trainer of the Russian mens team at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku. Andrey Filatov’s main asset is Tuloma investment company, Не is also a co-owner of the Global Ports company listed at the London Stock Exchange, the railway companies Globaltrans and Transoil Ltd. In October 2015, Filatov announced consolidation into Tuloma Investment Company, tuloma’s investment portfolio includes stakes in Coal Mining Investments Ltd. In 2010, Finance magazine estimated Andrey Filatov’s wealth at $0.92 billion, in 2011, the Russian version of Forbes magazine ranked Filatov 93rd among Russia’s wealthiest businesspersons, with an estimated wealth of $1.1 billion. In 2012, Forbes World Listing estimated Filatov’s wealth at $1.3 billion, Filatov is a member of the Valaam Monastery Board of Guardians. He has been keen on chess since childhood, Filatov was the initiator and sponsor of the World Chess Championship 2012 held in Moscow in 2012, in the State Tretyakov Gallery. ”. The game was played between Boris Gelfand and Viswanathan Anand, Filatov funded the restoration of the tombstone monument to one of the greatest chess players, Alexander Alekhine, the first world champion who was Russian by birth, in Paris. In memory of his first chess coach, Alexander Valerianovich Sinitsyn, Filatov set up the Sinitsyn Memorial international children chess festival, on 1 February 2014 at the 22nd congress of the Russian Chess Federation Andrey Filatov was elected President of the Russian Chess Federation. In January 2016, Filatov became senior trainer and captain of the Russian mens chess team, in September 2016, the Russian team won bronze medals at the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku. In 2016 Filatov was awarded a title of FIDE Senior trainer, Filatov is collecting pieces of art – painting, graphic works, and sculpture as well
13. Mikhail Fridman – Mikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Russian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. With Russian and Israeli citizenship, in 1988 he co-founded Alfa-Group, according to Forbes, he is the second richest Russian as of 2017. In 1990 he co-founded Alfa-Bank, which is now the largest private bank in Russia and he is also on the supervisory board of directors for VimpelCom and X5 Retail Group. He is chairman of the L1, and since DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG was bought by L1 Energy in 2015, Mikhail Maratovich Fridman was born on 21 April 1964 in Lviv, USSR, where he spent his youth. He graduated from school in Lviv in 1980, where he won school olympiads in physics and mathematics. Initially denied entrance to Moscow’s top physics school because of his Jewish heritage, in 1981 he began attending the Moscow Institute of Steel and he worked various jobs while a student, including founding and co-owning a student dancing club named Strawberry Fields. Fridman led a group of students who would queue for tickets at popular Moscow plays, having studied metallurgical engineering, Fridman graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1986 with distinction. After graduation Fridman began working as an engineer in a state electrical machinery factory. The business employed largely other Moscow university students and his grandmother served as a business mentor, his family having owned a kitchenware shop in Lviv, prior to the 1917 revolution. According to Fridman, she warned him to never have dealings with the goys, along with German Khan, Alexei Kuzmichov and several other partners, circa 1988 Fridman founded Alfa-Eco, a company that sold used computers, and a company that imported cigarettes and perfumes. The investment group was later renamed Alfa Group Consortium which initially focused on trading, copy machine maintenance. The company soon expanded into imports and exports as well, becoming one of the larger conglomerates in Russia with interests in such as telecommunications, banking, retail. Using $100,000 of his own money to pay the fee, the company grew to become the largest private bank in Russia. Other Alfa Group divisions would later include Alfa Capital Management, Rosvodokanal Group, AlfaStrakhovanie Group, in 1997, Fridman collaborated with Len Blavatnik and Viktor Vekselberg to purchase TNK for US$800 million. TNK, a struggling Siberian oil company, was bankrupt, with Fridman explaining that at the time. However, the company began to turn a profit after a significant debt restructuring, on 2 February 2003, BP agreed to form the TNK-BP joint venture with the AAR consortium, which included Alfa Group, Access Industries, and Renova. After the merger, TNK-BP became the third largest oil producer in Russia, Fridman co-founded the Perekrestok food retail chains in May 2006, and through the merger of Pyatyorochka founded the X5 Retail Group. It was the countrys largest retailer in terms of sales before being overtaken by Magnit in April 2013, a rival grocer, Kopeyka, was acquired by X5 for USD $1.12 billion in 2010
14. Sergey Galitsky – Sergey Nikolayevich Galitsky is a Russian billionaire businessman, the founder and co-owner of Magnit, and president of FC Krasnodar. Sergey Arutyunian was born on 14 August 1967, in Lazarevskoye and he later adopted his wifes surname. In 1993, he graduated from the Economics faculty of Kuban State University, a year later, he founded the company, Tander, which traded wholesale cosmetics and perfumery. In 1998, he built the first distribution center, and immediately after a crisis, in 2000, he switched to retail, and created the largest network by number of stores in Russia. In 2006, the company conducted its IPO and was valued at $1.9 billion and he is married to Viktoria Galitskaya, and they have one daughter, Polina Galitskaya
15. Mikhail Gutseriyev – Mikhail Safarbekovich Gutseriev is a Russian entrepreneur, businessman and poet. Gutseriev also owns large assets in real estate including the National Hotel, Gutseriev began to invest into the media business, and has acquired seven radio stations thus far. According to Forbes, Gutseriev has a fortune of $6.2 billion as of March 2016. Gutseriev was born into an Ingush family with children in Tselinograd. He graduated from school in Grozny. He began his career as a porter, while taking courses at Dzhambulsky Technological Institute. Later, he got degrees from the Moscow-based Finance Academy as well as the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and he also got graduate degrees from Saint Petersburg Law Institute, including a Ph. D. from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics. He holds degrees in law and a Ph. D. in economics, Gutseriev also holds awards for Academician of Russian Academy for Natural Sciences, Academician of Russian Academy for Social Sciences, Academician OF International Academy of Economics and Law. From 1976 to 1992 he worked his way up from laborer to General Director in the Grozny Industrial Association, Gutseriev was a pioneer in the private banking sector in the Soviet Union—in the late 1980s he founded one of the first cooperative banks in the country. Bank, a company, in Moscow, bringing together industrial enterprises, trading companies. In 1994 he was named head of the Ingushetia economic aid zone. In 1995 he was elected deputy to the State Duma, where he acted as a Deputy Chairman, in 2000 he was elected to the State Duma, this time as an independent candidate for District 12. On January 14,2000 Gutseriev was elected president of NGK Slavneft OAO at a shareholders meeting, on February 27,2001 he was elected vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. In September 2002 he started and ran Russneft, by 2007, Russneft was in the top-10 for Russian oil companies, with oil production of 14.8 million tonnes per year,2 refineries and the biggest network of retail stations. At this point, Russnefts yearly net profit was in the region of $1Bn, a non-profit charitable organization Charity Fund- SAFMAR was established September 16,2013. The fund was established by JSC RussNeft, headed by Mikhail Gutseriev and this organization continues church-building projects and restoration of churches, along with other culture, arts, and education endeavors in Russia. Guteriev is married, and had one daughter and two sons and his eldest son, 22-year-old Chingis Gutseriev died suddenly at home on 22 August 2007. On this day he had involved in a minor car accident
16. David Iakobashvili – David Mikhaylovich Iakobachvili is one of the founders of the largest Russian company – JSC Wimm-Bill-Dann – the manufacturer of dairy products, juices and beverages. In 2001 -2010 he held the position of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of this company. At present David Iakobachvili is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of OrionService Ltd, joint proprietor of Petrocas Energy Holding Ltd, and he is a member of the steering bodies of influential Russian and international organizations. He later became the member of the Presidents Global Council at New York University, David Iakobachvili is a member of the Social Council under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, a member of the Intellectual Property Protection Steering Group. David Iakobachvili is a member of the Musical Box Society of Great Britain. Active engagement in projects that aim to address problems in the country. - Financial support for students in the field of new technologies in agriculture. - Fostering financial education among young people, Financial support for a project that aims at rescuing homeless animals. He is a collector of mechanical musical instruments, clocks and caskets, Russian bronze, art silver, items of Russian and West-European Applied. His collection is the result of a search, authentication and restoration of artworks of notable painters and sculptors. It is continuously replenished with items from private collections from Russia. At present the collection more than ten thousand pieces of art, many of which are objects of great rarity. In future, they will be exhibited in a public museum and he was given the status of “The Men of the Year 2001”, “Person of the Year 2002” and “Entrepreneur of the Year 2003”. In 2008 he was given an award for contribution in the corporate management development and was called the best Chairman of Board of Directors. In 2012 he was given an award from “Kommersant” publishing house in two categories at once, “Success” and “Choice of the Audience”. In 2013 he won appreciation from the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation for active participation in preparing and holding a meeting of Heads of Governments of B20, David Iakobashvili — Information David Iakobashvili — Information David Iakobashvili — Information David Iakobashvili — Information
17. Dmitry Kamenshchik – Dmitry Vladimirovich Kamenshchik is a Russian businessman, chairman of Moscow Domodedovo Airport, the sole shareholder in Moscow Domodedovo Airport, owner of DME Ltd. the Airport holding company. He is 27th position among the richest Russian businessmen according to Forbes, as of April 2015, Kamenshchik was born in Sverdlovsk, in a family of radiophysisists. His parents met at the Urals Polytechnic Institute, currently Ural State Technical University and his father managed a computer center at Uralgiprotrans, and so did his mother at a classified geodesy and mapping company. In 1990 he entered the faculty of the Moscow State University. However, he did not give up studying, in 2000 he graduated from the Sociological Faculty of the Moscow State University with a major in Economic Sociology, in 2003 he received a PhD degree in Economics from Moscow State University. On 18 February 2016 Kamenshchik was arrested in connection with the Domodedovo International Airport bombing of 24 January 2011 and he was accused of criminal negligence, causing the death of 37 people. Kamenshchik and Domodedovo Airport denied any wrongdoing, stating that the security at the time of the accident fully complied with the legal requirements of that time. After the court hearings, Kamenshchik was put under house arrest until 18 April 2016 and he was forbidden to leave his house, communicate with anybody except the investigators and relatives, and to use mail, internet or email. Later, on 1 July 2016, due to the intervention of Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Malinovsky, in February 1991 a businessman from Ekaterinburg Anton Bakov registered JV East Line to engage in air transportation services. That is when Dmitry Kamenshchik, with his academic aspirations set temporarily aside in favour of business, in 1992 JV East Line stopped operating. Kamenshchik saw it as a chance to become East Line brand owner, starting from 1993 East Line leased aircraft and launched charter flights to Europe and Asia. Kamenshchik created a similarly-named airline progressively beefing up its own aircraft fleet, in 1994 East Line company set up its core business at the premises of Domodedovo Airport, catering service, cargo operations, handling, etc. In a quid-pro-quo arrangement the Airport provided outworn plant and equipment, whereas East Line ran reconstruction of airport facilities, the year 1998 was a true game-changer for Kamenshchik. It was when all the previous frenetic activity started paying off for his company -, East Line managed to strike a 75-year Lease for the Domodedovo airdrome complex not subject to private ownership, thus getting the right to operate it on a long-term basis. By bringing more money to the table from its coffers in a series of much-needed investments, in the same year Kamenshchik became the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Moscow Domodedovo Airport. The above deals for the transfer of lease and ownership rights were subject to state scrutiny, the result was that his company purchased a 98. 19% block of Demikhovskiy Machinery Factory. To add to this spree, Transmash, an office for transport engineering, was set up. In 2004 East Line sold both its own company and machinery assets at a profit, as Kamenshchik decided to take his foot off this non-core business pedal
18. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor – He is also engaged in discussing and elaborating ways to stop nuclear proliferation and prevent a nuclear catastrophe. In Russia, he has awarded the Order of Friendship. In 2017, Forbes estimated Kantors net worth at US$3.1 billion, making him the 34th richest person in Russia and the 630th richest person in the world. Kantor was born and spent his years in Moscow, and obtained a degree from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1976. In 1981, he completed his PhD in Spacecraft Automatic Control Systems, Kantor heads the publicly traded Acron Group, one of the leading mineral fertilizer producers and distributors in the world. Today, Acron is a group of companies producing over 40 chemical products with annual output exceeding 4.1 million tonnes. In 2016, Forbes estimated Kantors net worth at US$2.7 billion, making him the 33rd richest person in Russia, in 1989-1993 Kantor was Director General of the joint venture Intelmas. Under his leadership, one of the first computer networks was introduced and installed in Russia, in 1996-2000 he was an economic adviser to the Chairman of the Federation Council of the RF Federal Assembly. Since 2000 Kantor has served as President of the National Institute of Corporate Reform, the NICR focuses on improving the investment climate in Russia and enhancing the global image of Russian companies. Kantor is married to Anna Kantor and has four sons and a daughter and he has been awarded the Order of Friendship and the Order of Honour for his work in promoting cooperation and friendship between nations. He serves as the President of the European Council on Tolerance and this can be best achieved through early education, model legislation and enforcement. To promote this concept, Kantor has initiated the establishment of a European academic center dedicated to researching and studying tolerance, Kantor has been the president of the European Jewish Congress since 2007, having been re-elected to the position in 2008 and again in 2012 and 2016. Kantor calls himself “the main person on duty on the European Jewish street, in 2010 he established the Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University. Kantor is particularly involved in Holocaust education, in order to preserve memories of the tragic events of the 20th century, he founded and headed the World Holocaust Forum and the European Jewish Fund. As Chair of the World Holocaust Forum Foundation Kantor initiated and organized the events in Krakow, on January 27,2005. On September 27,2006, the Second “Let My People Live. ”World Forum to commemorate 65 years since the Babi Yar tragedy was held in Kiev and it was attended by over 60 official delegations. The Third World Forum “Let My People Live. ”Took place on 27 January 2010 in Krakow and was dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 2013, the President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz declared International Holocaust Remembrance Day an official event for the European Parliament starting in 2013
19. Eugene Kaspersky – Yevgeny Kaspersky is a Russian cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 3,000 employees. He cofounded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research and he has been an advocate for an international treaty prohibiting cyberwarfare. Kaspersky was born in 1965 in Novorossiysk, Russia and he graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science in 1987 with a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology. His interest in IT security began when his computer was infected with the Cascade virus in 1989. Kaspersky helped grow Kaspersky Lab through security research and salesmanship and he became the CEO in 2007 and remains so as of 2017. Eugene Kaspersky was born on 4 October 1965 in Novorossiysk, Russia and he grew up near Moscow, where he moved at age nine. His father was an engineer and his mother a historical archivist, as a child he developed an early interest in math and technology. He spent his time reading math books and won second place in a math competition at age 14. When he was fourteen, Eugene began attending A. N, kolmogorov boarding school, which is run by Moscow University and specializes in math. He was also a member of the division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. At the age of 16, Kaspersky entered a program with the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science. He graduated in 1987 with a degree in engineering and computer technology. After graduating college, Kaspersky served the Russian military as a software engineer and he met his first wife Natalya Kaspersky at Severskoye, a KGB vacation resort, in 1987. Eugene Kasperskys interest in IT security began in 1989, when his PC was infected by the Cascade virus and he studied how the virus worked and developed a program to remove it. Afterwards he continually found new viruses and developed software to remove them, early on Kasperskys anti-virus software had just 40 virus definitions and was distributed mostly to friends. There, he and his colleagues improved the software and released it as a product called Antiviral Toolkit Pro in 1992, at first the software was purchased by about ten clients per month. It earned about $100 per month, mostly from companies in Ukraine, Kasperskys then-future wife Natalya Kaspersky became his coworker at KAMI. In 1994, Hamburg University in Germany gave Kasperskys software first place in a analysis of antivirus software
20. Suleyman Kerimov – Suleyman Abusaidovich Kerimov, Lezgin, born March 12,1966 in Derbent, Dagestan, USSR, is a Russian businessman, investor and politician. Since 2008, Kerimov has represented the Republic of Dagestan in the Federation Council of Russia, after completing his service in 1986, Kerimov continued his studies at Dagestan State University, where he graduated with a degree in financial accounting and economics in 1989. During his studies he was Deputy Chairman of DSUs Trade Union Committee and it was also at university that Kerimov met his wife, Firuza, the daughter of a former Trade Union leader. Kerimov has stated to have dreamed of making money from an early age, soon after his university graduation in 1989, Kerimov took a job as an economist at the Eltav electrical plant in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan. The state-controlled plant supplied transistors and semi-conductors to television-makers, while also producing diodes, microchips, Kerimov was paid 150 roubles a month and he and his wife lived in a worker’s hostel attached to the plant, where they shared one room of a two-room flat. Eventually, Kerimov rose to the rank of Deputy Director General at Eltav, in 1993, Kerimov was put in charge of handling relations between Eltav and Fedprombank, a Moscow bank established by the electrical company. Fedprombank financed lagging industries and Kerimov and his associates soon becames creditors to large utility companies, once the Russian economy stabilized, the debts were repaid with hefty returns for Fedprombank and, consequently, Kerimov. In late 1999, Kerimov bought a 55% stake in the oil trading company Nafta Moskva, by 2000, he had increased his stake of Nafta Moskva to 100%. Kerimov undertook a restructuring of the company, selling off all of the oil-related aspects and creating an investment. Naftas investments in the mid-2000s included purchase of the business center Smolensky Passazh, in 2003, Kerimov managed to secure a $43 million loan from the state-owned Vnesheconombank, which he invested in the oil and gas company Gazprom. Within the next year, share prices for the Russian gas company doubled, in 2004 Sberbank, now the largest bank in Russia and Eastern Europe, provided Kerimov with a loan of $3.2 billion. Which was later repaid, and these funds were invested in equities. By 2008, Kerimov had amassed a 5% stake in Gazprom, however, in mid-2008, Kerimov sold all his Gazprom and Sberbank shares. In November 2005, Kerimov’s Nafta Moskva acquired JSC Polymetal, one of Russia’s largest gold and silver mining companies. In 2007, he took the public on the London Stock Exchange. In 2008, Kerimov sold control over Polymetal, as markets around the world began to tighten in 2007, Kerimov and his associates expected that Russia would suffer more than the West from the impending economic crisis. A concerted effort was made to build closer ties with Western banks. Kerimov decreased his stakes in Gazprom and other Russian blue chips and approached Wall Street, in return, it was expected that Kerimov would receive favorable lending terms for future loans
21. German Khan – German Khan is a Ukrainian-Russian entrepreneur, business executive, and philanthropist. After graduating from university in 1988 he worked in a business selling consumer items. He was then appointed the head of the trade business Alfa Eco as part of a wider company, Alfa Group Consortium. He became president of Alfa Eco in 1996 and was instrumental in directing the company to focus on the export business, when Alfa bought Tyumen Oil in 1997, he joined the board of directors. He served as deputy chairman of TNK Oil Company from 1997 until 2003, in 2003, Khan worked with the other TNK owners to form a 50-50 joint venture with British Petroleum, in what was the biggest foreign investment in Russia to date at USD $8 billion. TNK-BP became Russia’s third largest oil company, in 2013 TNK-BP was sold to Rosneft for USD $56 billion, a sale described by Reuters as one of the biggest energy takeovers in history. Khan joined Mikhail Fridman in establishing LetterOne, based in Luxembourg, letterOnes L1 Energy fund was founded in 2013. Khan has donated funds to such as the European Jewish Fund. German Borisovich Khan was born on 24 October 1961 in Kiev, the son of Ukrainian Jewish parents from Lviv, his father was a metallurgy professor. Khan had a keen interest in sports at a young age, Khan graduated from high school in 1978 and subsequently worked for a year as an apprentice on a shop floor of a factory. He then studied engineering at the Kiev-Pedagogical College, graduating in 1982. 1983 he enrolled in the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, the company began by buying and selling a range of products including the purchase, upholstery and sale of carpets to domestic and then later, export markets. Khan took on a number of positions within the company as it expanded into new areas. Currently under the umbrella company Alfa Group Consortium, other divisions now include Alfa Capital Management, Rosvodokanal Group, AlfaStrakhovanie Group, Khan held a number of different managerial positions at Alfa Group starting in 1992. With Alfa-Eco restructured as the arm of the Alfa Group, Khan was Alfa-Ecos head of trade operations until 1996. He became president of Alfa Eco in 1996, where for his tenure he was instrumental in directing the company to focus on the export business. The company started by purchasing crude, securing contracts with refiners to process it, in 1997, Alfa Group Consortium together with Access Industries and Renova Group acquired the state-owned TNK Oil Company. Alfa Group purchased 40% of TNKs shares, when Alfa bought Tyumen Oil, he joined the board and remained involved in M&A deals
22. Alexander Lebedev – Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev is a Russian businessman, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. In March 2012, he was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the richest Russians with a fortune of $1.1 billion. However, his fortune has declined, and he is no longer considered to be a billionaire. He is part owner of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and owner of two UK newspapers with son Evgeny Lebedev, the London Evening Standard, The Independent, Alexander Lebedev was born in Moscow. His parents were part of the Moscow intelligentsia and his father, Yevgeny Nikolaevich Lebedev, was an elite athlete–a member of the Soviet national water polo team, and later a professor at Baumanka, Moscows highest technical school. After graduating from Moscow Pedagogic Institute, Alexanders mother, Maria Sergeyevna, worked in a rural Sakhalin school, in 1977, Alexander Lebedev entered the Department of Economics at Moscow State Institute of International Relations. However, he transferred to the First Chief Directorate of KGB. He worked there and at its successor Foreign Intelligence Service until 1992, in London, Lebedev had the diplomatic cover of an economics attaché. According to his website, Lebedevs assignments included fighting capital flight from the Russian Federation. The Sunday Express stated that he spent more time studying finance, upon leaving the Russian intelligence community, Lebedev set up his first company, the Russian Investment-Finance Company. In 1995 this bought the National Reserve Bank, a small Russian bank which was in trouble at the time, the bank subsequently grew rapidly to become one of Russias largest banks. It and the Alfa-Bank were the two out of the ten biggest Russian banks to survive the 1998 Russian financial crisis. In 2008, Forbes estimates Lebedevs fortune higher as US$3.5 billion, on 21 January 2009, Lebedev and his company Evening Press Corporation, part of Lebedev Holdings, bought approximately a 75. 1% of share in the Evening Standard newspaper for £1. The previous owners, the Daily Mail and General Trust, continue to hold 24. 9% in the company in the new firm, Lebedev promised to not interfere with the editorial running of the paper. Lebedev commented that during his time as a spy in London, paul Dacre, the editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard at the time of the sale said, Its a very sad day for the paper, its a very sad day for the Rothermeres. We are very sorry that it leaked out, we had no control over that, everyones been working very hard and theres a lot of hope for the future of the Evening Standard. In 2009 he entered into negotiations with Independent News & Media to buy the companys British national newspapers. Before the purchase was completed, his representatives offered the editorship of The Independent to Rod Liddle, the offer was withdrawn after Liddle became the subject of a campaign of hostility online and from the newspapers staff
23. Vladimir Lisin – Vladimir Lisin is a Russian steel tycoon. He is chairman and the majority shareholder of Novolipetsk or NLMK and he is said to be one of the richest men in Russia and 72nd richest in the world. As of 2013, his net worth is $14.1 billion. He rose through the ranks to become manager, shop manager in 1979. In 1992, he joined a group of traders who won control of Russia’s steel. When the partners split in 2000, he received 13% of the firm and he had another bit of luck when his former boss was named the Minister for Russian Metallurgy and Lisin became the sole owner of Novolipetsk Steel in 2000. He previously worked as Deputy Chief Engineer and as Deputy General Director of the Karaganda Steel Plant, mr. Lisin served as member of the Board of Directors of Zenit Bank. Mr. Lisin serves on the Board of Directors of the Novolipetskii Metallurgical Combine, one of largest steel companies in Russia, in 1998 and he serves as a Director at CJSC Chernomorneftegaz. He served as a Director of Norilsk Nickel Mining and Metallurgical Co. since 2002 and he has been Chairman and Director of JSC Novolipetsk Iron & Steel Corporation since June 5,2007. He has been Director of OJSC United Shipbuilding Corporation since March 3,2009 and he serves as a Trustee of Inst. of Social Dev. His business interests, apart from steel, include transportation and logistics, energy, in 1984 completed Postgraduate study in UKRNIIMET by correspondence. In 1989 he received an MSc in Metal Engineering from the Central Research Institute of ferrous metallurgy named after I. P. Bardin, in 1992 an MSc in Economics and Management from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. In 1996 a Doctorate of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, Faculty of engineering mechanics, in 1999 was a Professor at RANEPA and in 2005 received a doctorate in economics. He holds various patents for metallurgical processes and has published over 100 articles on metallurgy and economics and he is a major gun enthusiast and he has a collection of several shooting rifles. He first picked up a rifle when he was just 12 years old and he is the President of the European Shooting Confederation, the Russia Shooting Union and has been appointed vice president of the Russian Olympic Committee. Mr. Vladimir S. Lisin has been appointed as a member of the ISSF Executive Committee, Lisin is married and has three children. List of Russian billionaires Novolipetsk Steel website
24. Iskander Makhmudov – Iskander Makhmudov is an Uzbek-born Russian businessman and philanthropist. ”According to Forbes Magazine, Iskander Makhmudov is the 22nd wealthiest person in Russia. Forbes reported his net worth at $6.5 billion as of June 22,2014. Makhmudov has given over one billion dollars to charitable causes over the past decade, including clinics, housing programs, orphanages. Makhmudov takes a role in the Foundations leadership. Makhmudov, through the Foundation, operates an area near Moscow to help Russian startup companies develop. In June 2014, the Foundation hosted a competition, called 2014 Startup Village, the competition awarded investment money to 21 companies. Around 750 companies entered the competition, the Foundation said that the startup competition is the largest of its kind in the world. Makhmudov created a fund of money through the foundation, called the Skolkovo Fund, in May 2014, the Fund hosted an international meeting of biomedical research scientists in Russia. According to Yekaterinburg News, the event was the first-ever international biomedical conference, Makhmudov graduated from Tashkent State University with a degree in Oriental Studies. He is also a translator by educational background, in 1986, the U. S. military ran an operation called El Dorado Canyon in Tripoli, Libya. U. S. forces dropped 60 tons of bombs and missiles on Libyas military facilities, during the bombing campaign, a number of Soviet government specialists were stationed in Tripoli. They were woken up by the noise of the bombing campaign, Makhmudov was one of these men. At that time, his job was to servea as an Arabic-Persian translator and he worked for various Soviet military organizations in Libya and Iraq. His first position in business was with the Trans-World Group, which was at time the largest metal trader in Russia. He has worked in other business positions, 1991-1994 Deputy Marketing Director, JSC Alice 1994-1996 Director. 1996 CEO, Ai In 1999, he created UMMC, now Makhmudov is the main owner of Uralskaya Gorno-Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya Holding. This is the fourth largest non-ferrous metallurgical company in Russia, Russias second-largest copper producer in terms of output, with his partner Makhmudov also acquired a 50% stake in Izdatelskiy Dom Rodionova, which publishes the Russian version of BusinessWeek. Makhmudov’s ascension to success began in 1991 when the economy was replaced with capitalism after the fall of the USSR