Who is the richest man in Russia? List

For ten years the famous financial and economic magazine Forbes (USA) has been published in Russian. Great popularity worldwide this edition has won thanks to the published ratings of the "most-most": rich, fortunate, expensive, etc. In 2013, according to information published in Forbes, according to the number of billionaires (dollar), Russia entered the honorable first a place. In August last year, the magazine compiled a list of the richest people in Russia. He has been led by the same person for two years now - Alisher Usmanov.

His total capital is estimated at more than 17 billion dollars, but in other publications you can find numbers exceeding these by 3-4 billion. In addition, in some domestic publications the title "Russia's richest man" is not Usmanov, but Vladimir Lisin. There are also publications in which this "lucky" is called Oleg Deripaska. But according to Forbes, Lisin occupies the eighth position, and Deripaska does not exist at all in the top ten. Probably, this discrepancy arises due to the fact that different publications evaluate the capital of a particular billionaire by different criteria. In addition, the state of the rich is recorded on members of their families and other relatives, so that there is practically no exact information on the size of the capital of a particular businessman. Nevertheless, we present to your attention a list of the richest people in Russia, published in the Forbes magazine.

The richest people in Russia 2013

The version of Forbes magazine

The top three are led by Alisher Usmanov, followed by Mikhail Fridman and Leonid Milhanson, respectively, the second and third places. In the fourth position - Viktor Vekselberg. On the fifth - Vagit Alekperov. 42-year-old billionaire Andrei Melnichenko - sixth in the rating, and Vladimir Potanin - the seventh. The last three places in the top-ten of Russia's wealthiest people are occupied by Vladimir Lisin, owner of the metallurgical plant in Novolipetsk, the owner of the Volga Group, Gennady Timchenko and Mikhail Prokhorov, who occupy the 8th, 9th and 10th places respectively.

Version of the Russian magazine "Seo"

But in the authoritative edition of "Finance" ("SEO" magazine) another list has been published, which differs slightly from the first one. The leader in the list is still the same Alisher Usmanov, and taking 8th place in the rating of "Forbes" Vladimir Lisin is here in the second position. Vladimir Vekselberg also jumped on two steps and is in third place. But Mikhail Fridman, on the contrary, descended two steps down and took the 4th line. Mikhail Prokhorov from the end of the list (10th line) moved to the very middle - to the fifth place. Alexei Mordashov, who occupies the 6th rank of the rating according to the magazine "Seo", is not on the Forbes list at all. Leonid Milhanson from the third position went down to the 7th. Oleg Deripaska, who is absent from the Forbes rating, but which some Russian publications call "Russia's richest man," is on the eighth position in this list. Vladimir Potanin is on the penultimate stage of the top ten. And last place is taken by Vagit Alekperov - the fifth position in the rating "Forbes".

The richest man in Russia

As you can see, Alisher Usmanov is the richest entrepreneur of Russia according to both lists. He owns the Metalloinvest metallurgical holding company, is a co-owner (29.9% of the shares) of the British legendary FC Arsenal and the mobile operator Megafon, etc. The richest man in Russia was born in Uzbekistan to the family of the prosecutor. Educated at MGIMO. After the collapse of the USSR, he moved to Russia, where he founded his own business - the production of plastic bags, and also began to import tobacco into Russia. Simultaneously, he studied at the Financial Academy and received a diploma of a bank employee. Once in the banking sector, he made incredible progress: one post was replaced by another, higher. Later, he became the general director of the limited liability company "Gazprominvestholding", which he owns to this day. Then Usmanov bought the general share holding of the Internet holding company DST, which in 2010 changed its name to "Mile.Ru Group". It included Mail.ru, Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, 10% of Facebook, etc. The state of Alisher Usmanov, compared with last year, decreased by $ 0.5 billion: from 18.1 billion to 17.6. Despite this, he, according to Forbes and other authoritative publications, is Russia's richest man.