Russian business magazine Finans publishes the country’s “rich list”. This year’s list has not only been halved to 49 billionaires from last year’s 101 but the combined fortunes saw the financial crisis evaporate the 10 richest Russians fortunes by 66 per cent to a combined $75.9 billion.
RUSSIA’S BILLIONAIRES
1. Mikhail Prokhorov 14.1 Onexim
2. Roman Abramovich 13.9 Millhouse Capital
3. Vladimir Lisin 7.7 Novolipetsk Steel
4. Vagit Alekperov 7.6 LUKoil
5. Suleiman Kerimov 7.5 Nafta-Moskva
6. Mikhail Fridman 6.1 Alfa Group
7. Vladimir Potanin 5.0 Interros
8. Oleg Deripaska 4.9 Basic Element
9. Dmitry Rybolovlev 4.6 Uralkali
10. Alisher Usmanov 4.5 Metalloinvest
11. Leonid Fedun 4.5 LUKoil
12. Boris Ivanishvili 4.3 Unikor
13. Alexander Abramov 4.1 Evraz Group
14. Alexei Mordashov 4.1 Severstal
15. German Khan 3.9 Alfa Group
16. Alexei Kuzmichyov 3.05 Alfa Group
17. Viktor Vekselberg 3.0 Renova Group
18. Filaret Galchev 2.8 Eurocement
19. Anatoly Sedykh 2.5 OMK
20. Nikolai Tsvetkov 2.3 UralSib
Source: Finans weekly magazine (figures in billions of $)
The large yacht is one of FIVE identical boats owned by the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovitch (the owner of Chelsea Football Club here in the UK) moored in various harbours throughout Europe!
Mikhail Prokhorov climbed to the number one place of Russia’s rich list given that his fortune was less affected than those of other billionaire’s in Russia. Mr. Prokhorov was worth $14.1 billion at the end of last year.
Record oil and metals prices gave way to a decadelong economic boom, but a collapse in commodity and stock prices, a 35 percent ruble devaluation and high inflation slashed the number of billionaires in 2009 to below the levels of 2007 and 2006, when Finans counted 61 and 50 respectively.
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