Despite the sanctions

This year, according to Forbes, the richest Russian was the main shareholder of Novateka and Sibura Leonid Michelson. The championship was given to him by the chairman of the board of directors of PJSC Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant Vladimir Lisin, who descended to the second line. The third Russian in the ranking was the president of Lukoila Vagit Alekperov. In total, 98 Russian billionaires were included in Global.

Completely with the 33rd annual list of the richest people in the world can be found on the official website of the publication. Citizens of the Russian Federation have been included in it since 1997, when it included Vladimir Potanin (ONEXIMBANK), Vagit Alekperov (Lukoil), Mikhail Khodorkovsky (Yukos), Vladimir Gusinsky (Group Most), Rem Vyakhirev (Gazprom) and Boris Berezovsky, who served as deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Forbes included most Russians (111 people) in 2014, compared with last year (106 people), the Russian representative office in a billionaire sheet decreased, but also in the world, especially in Asia, the rich decreased. The record general condition was recorded on the eve of the global crisis of 2008, it amounted to $ 459.5 billion.

Leonid Michelson with his wife / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Lyubimov Andrey

Michelson was already a leader among domestic entrepreneurs in 2016 and 2017. This year, his fortune grew by $ 6 billion and amounted to $ 24 billion. This is 32nd place in the global list. The businessman owns a quarter share in Novatek, a gas company whose capitalization has grown over a year more than half. The business is growing, despite the sanctions imposed by the United States in 2014 against Michelson’s partner on Novatek and Siburu, Gennady Timchenko (49th place in the world) and the company itself.

The condition of last year’s leader Vladimir Lisin also grew, by more than $ 2 billion, to $ 21.3 billion, he took 45th line of the total rating. Vagit Alekperov was not much behind, with an increase of $ 4.3 billion and a total fortune of $ 20.7 billion, it occupies 47th line. Also in the first hundred of the richest people of the world were the chairman of the Board of Directors of Severstal Alexei Mordashov (48th place, $ 20.5 billion), President of Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin (58th place, $ 18.1 billion), the head of the Alfa Group supervisory board and a member of the Letterone Directors Mikhail Friedman (79th place, $ 15 billion), as well as co-owner of SUEK and EuroCHIMA Andrei Melnichenko (90th place, $ 13.8 billion).

Oleg Deripaska at the Rusal Sayanogorsk plant / Kremlin.ru

Oleg Deripaska Oleg Deripaska, he lost $ 3.1 billion and sank from 248th to 597th place, seriously, with a fortune of $ 3.7 billion. From the top 100, the President of Skolkovo, Viktor Vekselberg, became the third Russian, Andrei Melnichenko, but still entered the third place.

This time, 13 people from Russia were not included at all, but new persons appeared, there are five of them: after an annual pause, the co -owner of the Mercury group of companies Sergey Katsiev ($ 1.3 billion), the chairman of the board of directors of the Slavyan Mir group Vladimir Leshchikov and the director of UK Norebo, Vitaly Orlov, owned $ 1.1 billion, the chairman of the Soviet Directors of the Ilim group Zakhar Smushkin ($ 1 billion) and a member of the board of directors of the same group Boris Zingarevich ($ 1 billion).

Separately, it is worth mentioning the General Director of the Wildberries online store Tatyana Bakalchuk, who became the second after Elena Baturina woman-billionaire from Russia. This is a non -public company, estimates are given on the basis that the revenue in 2018 exceeded 100 billion rubles. Apparently, in the IT business, the gender question is not as acute as in other sectors of the Russian economy and the “glass ceiling” is not so impenetrable.

Tatyana Bakalchuk / Gazeta-Margust

If we talk about the world, then the first two lines remain non -sized: they were occupied by an American entrepreneur, founder and head of Amazon Corporation Jeff Bezos with a fortune of $ 131 billion and the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates ($ 96.5 billion). True, the losses are predetermined by the upcoming divorce proceedings.

The richest woman on the planet was recognized as the heiress of the cosmetic empire of L`oreal Francoise Betankur-Maires ($ 49.3 billion). In the general ranking of the richest people of the planet, it occupies the 15th line.

Kylie Jenner / Instagramm.com

The youngest billionaire in the world who earned money independently was the 21-year-old model Kylie Jenner, its main asset is a cosmetic company, which Jenner founded in 2015. No more than ten people work in business, third-party contractors are engaged in production and distribution, business is growing due to the popularity of the girl’s accounts in social networks. Before her, Mark Zuckerberg was the youngest rich, whose name is also inextricably linked with social networks. Now he takes eighth place in the world ranking.