For the past ten years, the famousfinancial and economic magazine "Forbes" (USA) is published in Russian. This edition has gained great popularity all over the world thanks to the published “most-most” ratings: rich, successful, expensive, etc. In 2013, according to the information published in Forbes, according to the number of billionaires (dollars), Russia entered the honorable first a place. In August last year, the magazine made a list of the richest people in Russia. For two years now, he has been headed by the same person - Alisher Usmanov.
The richest people of Russia 2013
Forbes magazine version
The top three are headed by Alisher Usmanov, thenare Mikhail Fridman and Leonid Milhenson, occupying, respectively, the second and third places. In fourth position - Viktor Vekselberg. On the fifth - Vagit Alekperov. 42-year-old billionaire Andrei Melnichenko is the sixth in the ranking, and Vladimir Potanin is the seventh. The last three places in the top ten richest people in Russia are Vladimir Lisin, owner of a metallurgical plant in Novolipetsk, owner of Volga Group, Gennady Timchenko and Mikhail Prokhorov, who occupy 8th, 9th and 10th places, respectively.
Version of the Russian magazine "Seo"
But in the authoritative edition of "Finance" (magazine"SEO") published another list, which differs slightly from the first. Alisher Usmanov is still the leader on the list, and Vladimir Lisin, who was in 8th place in the Forbes rating, is in second place here. Vladimir Vekselberg also jumped two steps and is in 3rd place. But Mikhail Fridman, on the contrary, went down two steps and took the 4th line. Mikhail Prokhorov from the end of the list (10th line) moved to the very middle - in fifth place. Alexei Mordashov, who occupies the 6th stage of the rating according to Seo magazine, is not on the Forbes list at all. Leonid Milhenson from the third position went down to the 7th. Oleg Deripaska, which is not in the Forbes rating, but which some domestic publications call the “richest man of Russia”, is on the eighth position in this list. Vladimir Potanin is on the penultimate level of the top ten. And the last place is occupied by Vagit Alekperov - the fifth position in the Forbes rating.
Russia's richest man
As you can see, the richest entrepreneur in Russiaaccording to both lists is Alisher Usmanov. He owns the metallurgical holding Metalloinvest, co-owns (29.9% of the shares) of the British legendary FC Arsenal and the cellular operator Megafon, etc. Russia's richest man was born in Uzbekistan into 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 from a bank employee. Once in the banking sector, he made incredible progress: one position was replaced by another, higher. Later he became the general director of the limited liability company Gazprominvestholding, which he still owns today. Then Usmanov bought a general stake in the Internet holding DST, which in 2010 changed its name to "Mail. Group." Mail.ru, Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, 10% of Facebook, and others are included in its structure. Alisher Usmanov’s fortune has decreased by 0.5 billion dollars from last year: from 18.1 billion to 17.6. Despite this, he, according to Forbes and other authoritative publications, is the richest man in Russia.
