Tinkov decided to build the first private icebreaker

Oleg Tinkov, fishing in his Astrakhan Lodge. Photo from Facebook of the La Datcha project

The billionaire and chairman of the Board of Directors of Tinkoff Bank, Oleg Tinkov, is going to build the world's first private icebreaker, which will serve customers of his elite tourist project for lovers of outdoor activities La Datcha. The billionaire told about his intentions in an interview with the Russian version of Forbes.

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• The La Datcha project created in 2016 now allows you to rent elite housing in France, Italy and Russia. Chalet in Courchel and Val Torans, Palazzo in Tuscany and Rybatsky Lodge in Astrakhan can be removed on average for € 50,000 per week (Lodge in Astrakhan - about € 13,000). In the near future, another object will join the network - in Mexico, after which Tinkov, as he told Forbes, intends to engage in the construction of a private icebreaker.
• According to Tinkov, a private icebreaker, which will become part of the La Datcha project, will go to the Antarctic and the Arctic, including along the Northern Sea Route. Tinkov added that he wants to build a ship, as he believes that the La Datcha project should be associated with extreme. If the businessman is fulfilled, then the icebreaker will become the second ship of the project: now the guests of his palazzo in Italy can rent a high -speed Pershing 90 yacht.
• Oleg Tinkov is a billionaire and founder of Tinkoff Bank. In 2018, Forbes estimated his fortune at $ 2.2 billion (No. 43 in the first hundred of the richest people in Russia). In 2017, in an interview with RBC, Tinkov admitted that he invested $ 50 million in La Datcha. And in an interview with Business Petersburg, the businessman said that the project would never pay off. You can read more about this business project, for example, here (paid material).

Egor Sonin