The richest people in Russia: TOP-10 influential and wealthy personalities

From year to year, a popular financial and economic magazine called Forbes, which closely monitors the lives of the most famous and wealthy politicians and entrepreneurs, once again ranked the richest people in the world. As always, information about businessmen is very accurate and presented in a separate form about the most influential businessmen. Russia for 2018. In 2018, the position in the ranking of Russian billionaires contains about 102 positions, and their total capital totals $ 410.8 billion. The most influential of the whole top was Vladimir Lisin with a fortune of 19.1 billion dollars. The next ranking position was taken by Alexey Mordashov, one of the members of the ‘Severstal’ board. At the same time, last year's leader of the Forbes magazine ranking - the founder of ‘Novatek’, Leonid Mikhelson came in third place in this list of the richest capitalists in Russia. And now we offer you to get acquainted in more detail with the top 10 most influential and wealthy people in Russia.

Alisher Usmanov

10th place is taken by Alisher Usmanov. His property: 12.5 billion dollars. Usmanov receives the main income from the metallurgical industrial company Metalloinvest. Among other things, the billionaire owns Arsenal football club and shares of some television companies. Since 2000, he took the position of CEO at Gazprom Investholding.

Victor Vekselberg

9th place is occupied by Victor Vekselberg. His property: 14.4 billion dollars. It is very interesting that Vekselberg earned its first million by selling copper, which was extracted from old cables. After some time, he bought a pair of bauxite mines and aluminum smelters, which he combined into one large Seoul Holding company. The entrepreneur is also a collector of Faberge eggs, in his collection there are as many as 9 eggs, each of which costs at least $ 100 million.

Mikhail Fridman

8th place is occupied by Mikhail Fridman. His property: 15 billion dollars. This Russian billionaire and entrepreneur receives his main income from Alfa Bank, which is currently one of the largest non-state banks in the Russian Federation.

Andrey Melnichenko

7th place is occupied by Andrey Melnichenko. His property: 15.1 billion dollars. Andrey Melnichenko is the main holder of shares in the energy SGK, the coal mining company SUEK, and the Erokhima company. He organized the first business in the 90s, his business was a network of exchangers.

Vladimir Potanin

6th place is occupied by Vladimir Potanin. His property: 18 billion dollars. Since 1993, his career has successfully and swiftly ascended up, with the help of connections at the top of the government, he founded Onexim Bank, under whose control the industrial giants and leading media outlets: Izvestia, Poster and Komsomolskaya Pravda were. To date, the multibillionaire owns part of the shares of Petrovax Pharm and the Sochi ski resort under the name Rosa Khutor.

Gennady Timchenko

5th place is taken by Gennady Timchenko. His property: 16 billion dollars. Timchenko’s hands are concentrated in the assets of large companies in Russia, between which Sibur and Novatek can be distinguished. Due to the fact that he is among those who are close to the head of the Russian Federation, Putin, he was overtaken by US sanctions. He was able to make his fortune by selling Russian hydrocarbons to all countries of the world. A part of the company Gunvor Timchenko sold Turnqvistu just one day before he was on the sanctions list.

Vagit Alekperov

4th place is occupied by Vagit Alekperov. His property: 16.4 billion dollars.Even under the Soviet Union, Alekperov, from a driller on the Caspian Sea, rose in the ranks to the post of deputy minister, who was responsible for the oil industry in the USSR. The Lukoil company was founded in 1991, 15% of the shares of which belong to the entrepreneur.

Leonid Milhelson

3rd place is occupied by Leonid Milkelson. His fortune: $ 18 billion. Last year, Milkhelson took the first place in the Forbes rating of the richest people from Russia, but in 2017 he could not increase his fortune, but only suffered losses of $ 400 million and that is why he moved to third position in the rating. Leonid Milkhelson is the founder of Novatek PJSC, and also concurrently chairman of the board of directors of the Sibur petrochemical company, in his hands is 48% of the shares of this holding. A very interesting fact is the past of the entrepreneur, his career began as a producer of work in a construction company, which at that time laid a gas pipeline in Tyumen.

Alexey Mordashov

2nd place is occupied by Alexey Mordashov. His property: 18.7 billion dollars. For 19 years, Mordashov Alexey served as CEO of Severstal’s steel casting company and left the post of head only at the beginning of 2015. At the moment, the businessman has a huge share of the shares of the steel company in the Russian Federation, and he successfully sold all the shares abroad. In addition, Mordashov has a 23% stake in one major German travel company TUI Group. His career began in the city of Cherepovets at the metallurgical plant with the post of senior economist, and after a while he was sent on a business trip abroad, to Austria, to the VoestAlpine steel mill. In 1992, he became the general director of the Cherepovets plant (hereinafter “Severstal”) entrusted Mordashov with the task of privatizing the plant so that he could save him from external destruction. At the age of 27, Alexey founded Severstal.

Vladimir Lisin

The richest man in Russia is Vladimir Lisin. His property: 19.1 billion dollars. The bulk of the revenue to Vladimir Sergeyevich Lisin comes from the transport and logistics holding under the name Universal Cargo Logistics Holding and the metallurgical plant in Novolipetsk. His career began with a simple position as a mechanic in a coal mine, and his subsequent job was served as a steelworker in Siberia. Step by step, he climbed the corporate ladder and in 2000 became the main shareholder of NLMK and Universal Cargo Logistics Holding. Also, Lisin is represented by the vice president of the international association for sports shooting, and he is the direct owner of a complex of shooting sites in the EU, which are called "Fox Nora".