Did
you know...? |
Vladimir
Lisin
in 1992 he joined up with tough group of traders called
Trans-World Group; they came to dominate Russia's
aluminum and steel exports
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Alexei
Mordashov
up $8.6 billion this year! ... son of mill worker parents
became finance director of a steel mill. When the plant's
elderly general director instructed him to buy up company
shares so it would not fall into the hands of an outsider,
Mordashov bought most of them himself |
Mikhail
Prokhorov
six-foot-eight bachelor and martial arts buff ... often
featured in gossip pages for his parties ... bought
New Jersey Nets in 2009 ... awarded the French Legion
of Honor in recognition of his efforts at Franco-Russian
cultural exchange |
Vladmir
Potanin
in Jan 2010 announced he will transfer his fortune to
charity and not his children |
Alisher
Usmanov
up $10.5 billion this year! |
Oleg
Deripaska
married into family of former President Yeltsin; in 2008
was 9th richest in the world and richest in Russia, lost
$24.5 billion later that year ... world's largest aluminum
producer |
Mikhail
Fridman
strong Kremlin connections |
Vagit
Alekperov
has good relationship with Vladimir Putin ... in
December 2006 he acquired nearly 400 gas stations from
ConocoPhillips |
Roman
Abramovich
Russia's richest man 2005-2007 ... college drop out; orphaned
as a child ... owns U.K. soccer club, Chelsea ... took
delivery of the world's largest yacht this year, the 533-foot
Eclipse, reported to have cost over $250 million ... last
child in 2009 with g'f |
Viktor
Vekselberg
owns collection of Faberge eggs |