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