It's no secret that Russia is the largest country in the world. Of course, in terms of the number of people living ahead of the rest of the planet, China, but in terms of size, the Russian Federation is second to none. The land of the country, rich in various resources, gushes with gigantic opportunities for the development of industries. The oil, metallurgical and gas industries are galloping at a high position in the world market, allowing their owners to get rich and join the list of Russian millionaires. Therefore, it is not surprising that the vastness of the country hides a huge number of wealthy people.
The richest man in Russia, according to Forbes, an expert on such matters, is Alisher Usmanov. This person is familiar to the public as the owner of Metalloinvest holding, the general director of the largest and most famous gas company in Russia, Gazprom, the owner of almost 40% of the shares of the social network Vkontakte and 30% of the shares of Arsenal. Before Usmanov, this position of the rating was held by Vladimir Lisin. Alisher Usmanov owns assets worth more than eighteen billion dollars.
According to some authoritative publications, Mikhail Fridman occupies the second position in the rating “ The Richest Man in Russia”. This person is the owner of the main stake in Alfa Group Holding. His financial and industrial condition is estimated at 16.5 billion US dollars. The "iron" tycoon Vladimir Lisin, who until that time occupied the top line of the list of "the richest man in Russia", is in competition with Friedman and, according to some reports, he is the second Rockefeller of the country. The status of the shareholder of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant, the author of numerous books and publications ranges from 16 "green" billions.
It should be noted that from month to month a variety of publications “count” other people's money and edit the lists, so it is likely that yesterday’s winner of the silver medal in the race for the title “The Richest Man in Russia” today may find himself in an honorable third place. It was in this situation that another metallurgical master with his “iron” 15 billion was Alexei Mordashov.
Closes the top ten richest people in the country Leonid Mikhelson (some publications give him an honorable third place), comfortably settled on gas and oil pipes. Compared to last year, its capital grew by almost 3 billion, which is quite good in the conditions of the economic crisis.
Of course, the kind of 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. I would like to pay special attention to young talents who managed to make a fortune using modern IT technologies. This is Evgeny Kaspersky (by his last name it’s easy to guess how the guy earned his billions), a classmate of Pavel Durov and, concurrently, co-owner of the Vkontakte social network Vyacheslav Mirilashili and Arkady Volozh (founder of Google’s rival Yandex search engine).
In the list of billionaires of the country there is also a woman's name - Elena Baturina, wife of Yuri Luzhkov. Without traces crossed the line of one billion and is the only representative of the fair sex from Russia to get on the Forbes rating page.