In order to raise capital in a short time, extraordinary abilities are required. Great inventors and musicians, economists and artists, creators of financial empires, gangsters, and other respected people became what they became all over the world for several reasons, including due to a combination of such personal qualities as caution, courage and intelligence.
Russia's richest people have become billionaires in just two decades. At the same time, none of them managed to create brilliant inventions or works of art. They did not use the most advanced technologies, like Henry Ford, did not write computer programs, like Bill Gates. There was no need for this, and, perhaps, that the abilities would not have been enough. The richest people in Russia were at the right time in the right place and took advantage of it. Of course, in order to occupy such an advantageous position in relation to the sources of material we alth, they had to work hard.
Roman Abramovich's path to success was thorny. He did not graduate from the institute, preferring business activities from a young age. At first, he opened an ordinary trading and intermediary firm, but then the future tycoon took up oil. The fact that such a change of activity was, to put it mildly, risky, today many have forgotten for the simple reason that today it is impossible to break into the commodity business at all. Then, in the nineties, the future richest people in Russia quickly realized that oil, gas, coal, metal and other raw material treasures of the country could become a source of financial power. A fight began, the stake in which was life. Or death. Roman Arkadievich was able to pass between Scylla and Charybdis, he managed to acquire the necessary connections. The risk was justified, and luck was the reward for courage.
Until recently
Eni capital of Abramovich took the first place in the country, and today the list of the richest people in Russia is headed by Vladimir Lisin. He has a higher education, he even graduated from graduate school and the Higher Commercial School. Doctor of Technical Sciences. He worked his way up from an electrician to a shop assistant. There are hundreds of thousands of them. Then - a rapid career throw to the position of Deputy General Director of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant, and this is already an important post. After that, the career of a businessman-financier began. In order to turn from a manager, albeit at the “top” level, into the owner of a metallurgical empire, something more is required than just high competence in financial matters. Obviously, Mr. Lisin had the necessary qualities. He is worth an estimated $24 billion.
As the famous aria says, people sometimes die for metal. Moreover, colored. One of these valuable chemical elements is aluminum, and it has its own king - Oleg Deripaska. The origins of this capital are in the same nineties, when the process of the so-called primitive accumulation proceeded rapidly, as a result of which the richest people in Russia accumulated their assets. Mr. Deripaska met 2013 as a multi-billionaire, and in total he managed to earn $19 billion. He owns the Basic Element group (formerly Siberian Aluminum), and at the same time the Sibneft company.
Thanks to the media, the facts of their biography from time to time become known to those who are interested in them. People tend to discuss weddings, divorces, acquisitions, and the personal lives of the rich. Sometimes they are envious. Is it worth it? After all, their lives are not easy…
