On the list we managed to find billionaire Vladimir Lisin, who studied in Kuzbass

Governor of the Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev, at a meeting with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on preparations for winter, said that the regional authorities turned to businessmen on the Forbes list with a request to help prepare for the heating season, Interfax reports .

According to Tuleyev, in this way the region managed to prepare 15% of enterprises for the heating season. “Such measures were taken in conditions of lack of money,” the governor explained.

“What to do, the need for invention is cunning: they took Forbes magazine, who has the money, we look - and you, Lisin, Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant (the main owner of the plant is billionaire Vladimir Lisin ), studied at school and graduated from our university - don’t huddle, prepare a school , where you studied, and the university, replace the pipes, and we will make you a sign, a bust,” Tuleyev said.

The main owner and head of the board of directors of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK), Vladimir Lisin, graduated from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute in Novokuznetsk with a degree in Foundry Production of Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals. He began his working career as an electrician at the Yuzhkuzbassugol association. In 2010 and 2011, Lisin topped the list of the richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes. His fortune was then estimated at $15.8 billion and $24 billion, respectively.

Lisin, through his representative, commenting on Tuleyev’s statement, said that “dear Aman Gumirovich, apparently, mixed up something: either he was not talking to me, or he wanted to talk and forgot.”

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