MOSCOW, May 1.The combined wealth of the richest entrepreneurs from Russia has grown by $16.35 billion since the beginning of the year, and the co-owner of Lukoil Vagit Alekperov, whose fortune has grown by more than 3.7 billion, reaching $19.1 billion, added the most to the «value». calculated based on Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI) data.
The index is calculated based on the value of shares of companies in which billionaires own shares. For some companies, the calculation is based on the ratio of their capitalization to EBITDA or share price to earnings per share. In total, the BBI rating includes the 500 richest people in the world, and it now includes 22 Russian citizens, and their total fortune as of May 1 is $ 279.88 billion.
The richest of them remains one of the main owners of Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin, who has increased his fortune by $448 million to $29 billion since the beginning of the year. The second place is occupied by the co-owner of Novatek, Leonid Mikhelson, whose fortune has grown by $3.09 billion to $27.7 billion. In third place is the beneficiary of NLMK Vladimir Lisin, who since the beginning of the year has increased his fortune by $1.74 billion to $21.6 billion.
Alekperov (left the board of directors and resigned as president of the company) rose from sixth to fourth place with $19.1 billion, an increase of $3.73 billion. Alisher Usmanov (Metalloinvest, Megafon) occupied the fifth place, having become rich by $217 million, his fortune is now estimated at $18.7 billion. The sixth place was taken by the main beneficiary of Severstal, Alexei Mordashov, whose fortune has fallen by $439 million since the beginning of the year, to $18.3 billion.
Mikhail Prokhorov (Onexim group) remained seventh on the list: his fortune increased by $1 billion to $14.2 billion. Gennady Timchenko, co-owner of Novatek and Sibur, moved up to eighth place from ninth, his fortune has increased by $1.86 billion since the beginning of the year and now stands at $13.7 billion.
The top ten was closed by the founder of Alfa Group, Mikhail Fridman, whose fortune has grown by $719 million since the beginning of the year, and the former beneficiary of Evrokhim and SUEK Andrey Melnichenko (withdrew from the co-owners on March 9 last year , falling under EU sanctions), whose fortunes decreased by $1.17 billion. Now both have $12 billion.