Northwest assets of the richest Russians

Fertilizers, ores, sea ports, liquefied gas, steel and car construction. “Chronicles. Media”, based on the annual rating of billionaires of Forbes magazine, talk about the ten richest Russians associated with the northwest.

The first place in Russia and the North-Western Federal District (North-West) at Andrei Melnichenko ($ 25.2 billion). The entrepreneur is under the sanctions of the EU, the USA and the UK. It is also known for the fact that his yacht “A” is one of the largest in the world. In 2022, she was arrested in Italy as the property of an altitude businessman. Melnichenko himself is a citizen of the UAE and lives in Dubai.

Melnichenko controls the Eurochem fertilizer production company. She supplies her goods around the world. In the National Security and Technology, she belongs to such enterprises in the Leningrad region as “Euro-Chim-Seve-West” and “phosphorite”, and in the Murmansk region-the “Kovdor mining and processing plant”.

The second place is again both in Russia and in the North -West II - at Vladimir Potanin ($ 23.7 billion). He owns the Norkel mining and metallurgical companies, one of the largest in the world. Forbes magazine wrote that it was Potanin who came up with the privatization mechanism, known as the collateral auctions in the 1990s. According to the critics of this mechanism, thus entrepreneurs of those years, including Potanin, received shares of some of the largest enterprises in Russia for nothing.

Forbes also wrote that Potanin may go to Russian assets of the divided company Yandex. Earlier, the businessman has already bought Tinkoff bank.

“Norilikel” belongs to two major assets in the Murmansk region united in the Kola Mining and Metallurgical Company : “Severikel” in Monchegorsk and “Pechenganikel” in Zapolyarny.

Third place (again in Russia and in the North -West) at Vladimir Lisin ($ 22.1 billion). Despite wealth and influence, he fell only under the sanctions of Australia, he began, as the Forbes magazine wrote , along with entrepreneurs Iskander Makhmudov and Oleg Deripaska in the company of Trans World Group. Then he withdrew from it the “Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant”, which laid the foundation for the wealth of the businessman.

In the National Security and Technology of the First Port Company, Lisin belongs to the Sea Port of St. Petersburg , CJSC Containe Terminal St. Petersburg and LLC Universal Overload Complex .

The fourth place in the North -Western Federal District and in Russia - with Leonid Michelson ($ 21.6 billion). He is the chairman of the board of the Novatek gas production company, the second after Gazprom. The entrepreneur’s companion for this business is Gennady Timchenko. Novatek also participated in the preparation of mercenaries for invasion of Ukraine, approved the publication of “important stories”.

Michelsonovsky Novatek invests 120 billion rubles in the "Construction Center for Bulletic Sea Structures" in the village of Belokamenka, Murmansk Region. We are talking about a shipyard for the production and shipment of liquefied natural gas. At the same time, the current similar project “Arctic LNG-2” is difficult to get due to sanctions, so Novatek was forced to declare force majeure for some buyers.

Fifth place in the NWFO and Russia - Alexey Mordashov ($ 20.9 billion). The first in this rating who got rich at the expense of business in their native region. The entrepreneur was born to Cherepovets, there is also the basic enterprise of Mordashov "Severstal" - "Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant". The entrepreneur is known for sponsored the release of praise in Europe about Putin, wrote the publication “Important Stories”.

“Severstal” in the NWFO also has “Olenegorsk Mining and Processing Plant” in the Murmansk region and the “Karelian Pennant” in Kostomuksh in Karelia.

The sixth place in the NWFO and the seventh in Russia at the above Gennady Timchenko ($ 18.5 billion). He got rich , trading in Russian oil. Now the entrepreneur is a shareholder of Novateka and the Neftekhimic company Sibur . The businessman also controls the construction company Stroytransgaz . In addition, Timchenko, through the company "Transoyil", controls 7.8% of the St. Petersburg Bank "Russia". The European Union noted that this institution is a personal bank of senior Russian officials.

The United States included Timchenko in the sanctions list in 2014 as a person from the nearest circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Seventh place and 11 in Russia at Vyacheslav Kantor ($ 11.3 billion). The entrepreneur is a major collector of Jewish fine art. In 2001, he created the “Museum of Art of Avangard” . Cantor is the main shareholder of the manufacturer of mineral fertilizers of the Akron group of companies. The main enterprise of the group is located in Veliky Novgorod. The company positions itself as the largest employer of the region. Also in the village of Koashva, the Murmansk region, the North-Western Phosphorus Company is operating.

The eighth place and 15 in Russia are occupied by Andrei Guryev and his family ($ 9.7 billion). Once he was a companion of now disgraced entrepreneur Mikhail Khodorkovsky. After the criminal prosecution of Khodorkovsky, Guryev gained control of one of his former enterprises - Apatit OJSC in Kirovsk, Murmansk region. The company became the main asset of the Fosagro holding, which fertilizes. Guryev also belong to the Cherepovets of the Vologda Oblast Apatit JSC (with a branch in Volkhov Leningrad region), Fosagro-Trans and JSC Niuf named after Professor Ya. V. Samoilov. "

Ninth place and 21 in Russia at Iskander Makhmudov ($ 7.3 billion). The founder of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company and Transmasholding , which produces railway transport. Among the products of the company, for example, metro cars for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sofia, Budapest, Baku and Tashkent. The company’s electric train and rail buses are operated in Russia, Mongolia, Lithuania, Serbia, Armenia and Kazakhstan. The holding railway cars can be seen in Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia and Egypt.

Transmashholding includes the Oktyabrsky Electric Repair Plant located in St. Petersburg.

Finally, the tenth place and 24 in Russia is occupied by Victor Vekselberg ($ 6.8 billion). A businessman, who was famous for the whole world by buying nine Easter eggs, began the businessman with oil and aluminum. Now the spectrum of his interests is wider: from energy to Internet providers.

Vekselberg - shareholder of the Aluminum company "Rusal". She belongs to her in particular the “Kandalaksha aluminum factory” in Karelia.

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If you add the status of these billionaires, you get $ 167.1 billion. For understanding, this is more than six times higher than the budgets of all 11 regions of the North -Westone Federal District for 2024, including the budget of the richest region - St. Petersburg.

The combined state of 25 richest businessmen from Russia in 2023 increased by $ 50.01 billion, the Prime agency based on Bloomberg Billionaires Index calculated . As of January 2, their total condition was 328.53 billion dollars.

The number of Russian billionaires in the World Forbes rating grew over a year from 110 to 125 people. The previous record for the number of Russians in the list of the richest entrepreneurs of the world was recorded in 2021 - 123 people.