The richest man in Russia

It's no secret that Russia is the largest country in the world. Of course, in terms of the number of people living in front of the planet of the whole of China, but in size it is the Russian Federation that does not know its equal. Rich in diverse resources, the country's land is gushing with huge opportunities for the development of industries. The oil, metallurgical and gas industries are gaining a high position on the world market at a galloping pace, allowing their owners to become rich and replenish the list of Russia's millionaires. Therefore it is not surprising that the vastness of the country hides a huge number of wealthy people.

The richest man in Russia is Alisher Usmanov, who is versed in such Forbes cases. This person is familiar to the public as the owner of the holding Metalloinvest, the general director of the largest and most well-known in the world gas company of Russia, Gazprom, the owner of almost 40% of the shares of the social network Vkontakte and 30% of Arsenal. Before Usmanov, this position was taken by Vladimir Lisin. Alisher Usmanov owns assets worth more than eighteen billion dollars.

The second position of the rating " The richest man in Russia" occupies, according to some authoritative publications, Mikhail Fridman. This person is the owner of the main share holding of the holding company Alfa Group. Its financial and industrial status is estimated at 16.5 billion US dollars. "Iron" tycoon Vladimir Lisin, who previously occupied the top line of the list "the richest man in Russia," is competing with Friedman and, according to some reports, he is the second "Rockefeller" of the country. The shareholder of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works, the author of numerous books and publications, fluctuates within 16 "green" billions.

It should be noted that from month to month a variety of publications "recount" other people's money and edit the lists, so it is likely that yesterday the owner of the silver medal in the race for the title "Russia's richest man" today may find himself in an honorable third place. It was in this situation that there was another metallurgical business master with his "iron" 15 billion - Alexei Mordashov.

The first ten of the country's richest people, Leanid Mikhelson, are closing down (some publications give him an honorable third place), comfortably arranged on gas and oil pipes. In comparison with last year, its capital grew by almost 3 billion, which is quite good in the conditions of the economic crisis.

Of course, the peculiar game "Who is the richest man in Russia?" Is somewhat reminiscent of the television game "Who is the weakest link?" Only in this financial game the participants not only drop out, but also join the ranks of billionaires. Particular attention should be paid to young talents who managed to put together a fortune on modern IT-technologies. This is Eugene Kaspersky (by his last name it's not hard to guess what the boy earned his billions), Pavel Durov's classmate and, in combination, Vyacheslav Mirilashili and Arkady Volozh, the founder of the social web site Vkontakte, founder of Google's search engine Yandex.

In the list of country's billionaires there is also a woman's name - Elena Baturina, wife of Yuri Luzhkov. Beznesledi crossed the border of one billion and is the only representative of the fair sex from Russia, which was on the page of the Forbes rating.