Did
you know...? |
Alisher
Usmanov
also has a stake in Facebook |
Vladimir
Lisin
in 1992 he joined up with tough group of traders called
Trans-World Group; they came to dominate Russia's aluminum
and steel exports ... lost $8.1 billion last year |
Alexei
Mordashov
up $8.6 billion this year! ... son of mill worker parents
became finance director of a steel mill. When the plant's
elderly general director instructed him to buy up company
shares so it would not fall into the hands of an outsider,
Mordashov bought most of them himself |
Vladmir
Potanin
in Jan 2010 announced he will transfer his fortune to
charity and not his children |
Vagit
Alekperov
head of Lukoil ... has good relationship with Vladimir
Putin ... in
December 2006 he acquired nearly 400 gas stations from
Conoco Phillips |
Mikhail
Fridman
Alfa Group is the biggest financial and industrial group
in Russia ... strong Kremlin connections |
Mikhail
Prokhorov
six-foot-eight bachelor and martial arts buff ...
often featured in gossip pages for his parties ...
got 8% of votes in the 2012 Russian presidential election
against Vladimir Putin ... publishes a Russian-language
magazine, Snob, in USA ... spending $200 million to
make Russia's first hybrid car, the Yo ... bought
New Jersey Nets in 2009 ... awarded the French Legion
of Honor in recognition of his efforts at Franco-Russian
cultural exchange
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Viktor
Vekselberg
owns collection of Faberge eggs |
Roman
Abramovich
Russia's richest man 2005-2007 ... college drop out; orphaned
as a child ... owns U.K. soccer club, Chelsea ... took
delivery of the world's largest yacht last year, the 533-foot
Eclipse, reported to have cost over $250 million ... last
child in 2009 with g'f |
Leonid
Mikhelson
prolific
art collector ... head of largest independent gas producer,
Novatek |
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Top 10 Billionaires |
Oleg
Deripaska
married into family of former President Yeltsin; in 2008
was 9th richest in the world and richest in Russia, lost
$24.5 billion later that year ... world's largest aluminum
producer |