Co-owner of Novatek Leonid Mikhelson became the richest person in 2021. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI).
Michelson is in first place in terms of wealth growth since the beginning of the year. Over the year, his fortune grew by $ 7.68 billion, to 32.4 billion.
The second place in the rating belongs to one of the main owners of Norilsk Nickel, Vladimir Potanin, whose wealth increased by $ 846 million last year, to 30.9 billion.
Alexey Mordashov, the main owner of Severstal, closes the top three. In 2021, he became $ 5.77 billion richer, increasing his fortune to $ 28.8 billion.
In total, the BBI rating includes the 500 richest people in the world, including 25 Russians.
Earlier, Forbes magazine reported that Senator Suleiman Kerimov, whose family owns 76.3% of shares in the gold mining company Polyus, topped the list of the ten most impoverished Russian billionaires in 2021. The fortune of Kerimov and his family, according to the newspaper’s estimates, decreased by almost $ 6 billion to $ 14.92 billion. Viktor Vekselberg took the second position in this rating, having lost $ 3 billion (to $ 9.3 billion), and the co-owner of the airport closed the top three anti-leaders ” Domodedovo “Dmitry Kamenshchik (minus $ 668 million to $ 1.8 billion).
Source: Rosbalt
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