They build huge palaces, start fleets and buy expensive paintings at auctions. Their children study abroad, their wives own restaurants and salons, and their mother-in-law recorded expensive real estate on the ocean. Millionaires are used to living in a big way and amaze the world with their new purchases. Some of them made a fortune with hard work, others with a dodgy mind and ingenuity, and others simply stole from the state. Be that as it may, they actually govern the country, investing their money in the development of enterprises, opening new banks and becoming the sponsor of election campaigns. The rating of the richest people in Ukraine you will find out just now.
Rinat Akhmetov
A well-known Ukrainian businessman specializing in metallurgy and fuel and energy complex, the owner of the Shakhtar football club, takes first place. In 2014, his fortune was estimated at 11.2 billion dollars. Like all the richest people in Ukraine, due to conflicts in the country last year, he lost some of his money. For example, in 2008, his fortune brought three times more profit.
Rinat Akhmetov began his career in the family of a simple miner in Donetsk. According to him, he earned the first million by doing private business in the 90s, after the collapse of the USSR. Also in 1995, he was one of the founders of Dongorbank. Slowly increasing momentum, he led the list of 10 richest people in Ukraine.
Nowadays, more than 90 different enterprises bring him income. First of all, it is a huge Azovstal plant and Shakhtar football club. In addition, millions of profits come from: Khartsyzsk Pipe Plant, Mariupol Iron and Steel Works, ASKA insurance company, and a number of other institutions and companies.
Victor Pinchuk
The top of the richest people in Ukraine includes this famous businessman. Like Akhmetov, his professional interests are oriented towards metallurgy. But, in addition, he owns a lot of media in this country. In 2014, he earned 3 billion dollars.
Victor Pinchuk was born in Kiev. He graduated from the Metallurgical Institute and became a candidate of technical sciences. He began working as a laboratory assistant and researcher, while simultaneously mastering new expanses of business. In 1990, he was at the origins of the creation of the Interpipe research and investment group. Pinchuk’s success has grown over the years, and today he is a major industrialist and media tycoon.
Today, Interpipe has been re-qualified as a financial and industrial group. He controls several dozen enterprises (Dneprospetsstal, Nizhnedneprovsky pipe rolling and Novomoskovsky pipe plants). He also owns such Ukrainian TV channels as STB, ICTV, Novy, M1, and the Facts and Comments newspaper. In January 2008, it sold Ukrsotsbank to its Austrian partners for $ 2 billion.
Gennady Bogolyubov
The richest people in Ukraine love publicity. But this cannot be said about Gennady Bogolyubov, who remains always closed to the press. In 2014, he earned $ 2 billion. Invariably remains a partner of another millionaire - Igor Kolomoisky.
Back in the 90s, they together organized the company "Sentosa", which sold computer equipment. Gradually developing and discovering new projects, he "made" a big fortune. Today, under the wing of Bogolyubov, PrivatBank, the Dneproazot chemical enterprise, foreign assets in the extraction and processing of manganese ore. The oligarch owns many enterprises and factories.
He often does charity work. For example, it was Bogolyubov who sponsored the excavations of archaeologists at the Wailing Wall. He also donated a million dollars to buy prayer books for the Jews who pray at this sacred building. On the Wailing Wall hangs a carpet on which is written "A gift from Bogolyubov." The Ukrainian is the only one who has been given such an honor.
Igor Kolomoisky
He directly follows his partner Bogolyubov, behind only a little. In 2014, his income fluctuated at 1.8 billion. He has been working in the field of finance since 1985. For 20 years, he managed to build a huge, powerful financial and economic empire in Ukraine.
Kolomoisky is considered the leader of the Privat group. It is his opinion that is taken into account primarily when making the most important decisions. The assets of this association include industrial plants, combines, energy companies and banks. Among the most famous structures, one should mention PrivatBank, which has more than 2 thousand branches throughout the country, as well as UkrNaftu, Neftekhimik Prikarpatye and others.
Like all the richest people in Ukraine, he occasionally appears in business scandals. For example, everyone remembers his lawsuit with Pinchuk for the Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant. Or litigation with Rodnyansky, one of the owners of the 1 + 1 television channel, regarding ownership of this profitable media business.
Vadim Novinsky
Residents of Kiev, Lviv, Donetsk, Odessa and other cities probably know the hundred richest people in Ukraine. And this list of popular oligarchs is not complete without the name of Novinsky, who is engaged in metallurgy and mechanical engineering. His income is estimated at 1.4 billion dollars. He is a citizen of Ukraine, although he was born in the Novgorod region (Russia).
In the late 80s, he held a position in the Petrozavodsk squadron. Then he went headlong into business: he brought newsprint from Karelia and sold it several times more expensive in Bulgaria. Spent the money spent on the purchase of Zaporozhets cars in the homeland, which they sold in Karelia. This is the cycle of business in nature.
Today, he is the honorary president
of the Sevastopol football
club. Owns a patent for explosives "Ukrainit". In 2011, it purchased from the Russian VTB its subsidiary financial institution in Ukraine - Bank of Moscow. He is the owner of a substantial stake in Nikolaev, Black Sea and Kherson shipyards.
Petro Poroshenko
The current President of Ukraine entered the list of ten richest fellow citizens recently. Previously held 17th place in the ranking. In 2014, his profit grew to 1.3 billion, which raised him to sixth position. His area of ​​interest is agriculture and the media. He has many factories and plants, insurance companies and the media. Despite the fact that the president is not legally entitled to do business, Poroshenko does not sell his companies, as they are written to his relatives and partners.
Usually, the richest people in Ukraine achieved success due to savings in finances and as a result of avoiding unnecessary waste. But this cannot be said about Poroshenko. He is absolutely not greedy, especially in relation to his subordinates. At his famous
confectionery factory "Roshen" a simple cleaning lady receives at least 4 thousand hryvnias. This salary is much higher than the average in Ukraine. The same goes for the middle manager. In general, colleagues characterize Poroshenko as a tough and adventurous businessman with intuition and a phenomenal memory.
Yuri Kosyuk
Like Poroshenko, he has $ 1.3 billion in bank accounts. Born in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine, by profession - engineer. He worked as a broker. In 1995, he opened the "Business Center", which was engaged in the food industry. First of all, the company exported grain and other food products, and also sold goods on the domestic market.
In the late 90s, he founded several popular enterprises: the trademark Nasha Ryaba, which sells chicken, and Mironovsky bakery product. Actively engaged in political activities: in 2014 he was appointed first deputy head of the Presidential Administration.
Kosyuk’s success as a businessman was brought about by his ability to monitor prices, the cost of goods, and work on effective sales. He is not afraid of defeat, so he always goes forward. He believes that during a crisis in business, you can only survive through healthy competitiveness.
Konstantin Zhevago
He is not only included in the list of 100 richest people in Ukraine, but invariably occupies a leading position in it. In 2014, his fortune was estimated at 1.1 billion. Engaged in finance and metallurgy. He founded his business when he was barely 19 years old. By the age of 30, he became a Ukrainian oligarch. Konstantin Zhevago is the first in Ukraine and Russia who managed to bring his company Ferrexpo to the main platform of the world famous stock exchange in London. Today it controls one of the largest financial and political groups in Ukraine, is a deputy and president of the Vorskla football club.
Zhevago company focuses on the East. He opened a branch in Tokyo, and his company controls 15% of the Japanese pellet market. The oligarch is engaged in charity: all of his salary at Ferrexpo, and this is 240 thousand dollars, he transfers to good deeds. It also has its own charitable foundation, which last year spent 17 million US dollars on the construction of sports school grounds.
Sergey Tigipko
The list of the richest people in Ukraine also includes this politician and entrepreneur. His area of ​​interest is finance and engineering. Last year, the oligarch’s profit increased to one billion dollars. Tigipko calls himself a democratic politician. His associates consider him a good partner, understandable and consistent. He once advised the second President of Ukraine, Kuchma, on financial matters, and also worked closely with Kolomoisky.
Tigipko is the founder of the TAS group, in his hands a large stake in this company. The company specializes in banking, real estate, industry and venture projects. The oligarch is sure: to reach the top, you need to start small. Anyone who wants to be the head of an enterprise must first work as a simple manager. Beginning businessmen are always advised to pay attention to exporting goods to the West, and not to the CIS markets. In business, she likes to be the main thing: to independently select personnel, approve the budget and make strategic decisions.
Alexander Yaroslavsky
This Ukrainian oligarch is engaged in investments. In 2014, his income grew to 930 million and continues to increase. He received his first money due to the exchange of oil from Ufa for pipes in his homeland. Since then, he believes that the fastest way to wealth lies through "black gold" and gas.
Yaroslavsky was also actively engaged in trading operations. His main difference from his colleagues is that he never set himself the goal of becoming a tycoon, he simply tried to live in abundance. His first major purchase was the Azot chemical plant in Cherkasy. He started with a 30% stake, then gradually took over all the assets of the company. He later sold the plant to another oligarch, Firtash, earning him $ 350 million.
He leads friendships with Russian oligarchs, like other richest people in Ukraine. Forbes, analyzing its activities, cites Yaroslavsky’s contacts with Deripaska and Abramovich as an example. He has a reputation as a decisive person who always fulfills promises and knows how to negotiate.
200 richest people in Ukraine
This list includes, in addition to the above individuals, and other business representatives. For example, the same Firtash. He is in 19th place with his 400 million dollars. Among the first fifty are the names of Boyko, Kolesnikov and Khoroshkovsky. The first woman to earn $ 240 million is retail. This is Galina Gerega, she is in 38th position. In 40th place - the famous scandalous politician Nestor Shufrich and his 195 million, in 89th - Igor Surkis. Closes a hundred Irina Miroshnik, who received her 50 million from the chemical industry.
The list of two hundred Ukrainian oligarchs includes representatives of such companies as Western Dairy Group, Foxtrot, MTI, Asnova Holding and others. In their hands is virtually the entire profitable business in Ukraine. Recently, many of them have focused their interests on the media, as they understand: in our time, the media is a clear fourth power. Buying TV channels, Internet resources and print media, they further expand the scope of their interests. And being under the constant supervision of the "yellow press", they often become the heroes of scandalous publications and reports.