The richest people in the world

  • В Новогоднем номере журнала ForTrader.ru речь пойдет о российском олигархе, бывшем военном, сделавшем состояние на нефти и бензине в популярной компании «Лукойл», — Леониде Федуне. Леонид Арнольдович Федун родился в Киеве 5 апреля 1956 года в семье военного врача. Решив продолжить род медиков, Федун в 1972 году поступает в Ростовское высшее военно-командное училище ракетных войск им. Главного маршала артиллерии М. И. Неделина на военно-политический факультет. Спустя пять лет, в 1977 году, закончив его, он продолжил обучение в адъюнктуре Военной академии им. Ф. Э. Дзержинского, которую закончил в 1984 году со степенью кандидата философских наук. Диссертация Федуна называлась «Общественное мнение как…

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  • Few people can boast that their name has become a household name. Just as few people know who and what the man after whom the owners of impressive fortunes became known as the Rockefellers really was. John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York, and lived a long life of 97 years, forcing an insurance company to shell out five million dollars for his record of longevity. Virtually never seeing his father engaged in various scams and machinations, little John did learn a commercial approach to life from him. Already by the age of 13, the enterprising child was lending an acquaintance farmer a 50$ loan at 7.5% per annum, passing...

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  • Our 63rd issue of ForTrader.org magazine features the third billionaire from the Alfa clan, who according to Finance magazine ranked 16th among the Russian oligarchs with a fortune of $7.1 billion in 2010. Aleksei Kuzmichev is one of the founders and co-owners of Alfa Group, the priority of his work was the development of raw materials companies. Alexey Kuzmichev was born in the city of Kirov on October 15, 1962. Immediately after military service in the Transbaikal frontier troops, he entered the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, where he met his future colleagues Mikhail Fridman and German Khan. Kuzmichev was active in the institute and became secretary as early as his first year...

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  • Vagit Alekperov is another Russian billionaire, occupying a confident 4th place in the rating of Russian billionaires. At the end of 2009, according to Forbes, his fortune is $7.8 billion. Vagit Alekperov was born on September 1, 1950 in Baku, then still Azerbaijan SSR, in the family of an oilman, which certainly left a mark on the future of the businessman. Literally from his "young nails", the atmosphere in his home and life was literally soaked in "black gold". Therefore, it is not surprising that his first profession was that of a driller at the Kaspmorneft Production Association, and he started his career at the early age of 18. Vagit Alekperov chose the appropriate education - he graduated from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Gas in 1974.

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  • Viktor Rashnikov is a Russian businessman and billionaire who was ranked 14th in Russia by Finance magazine in 2010 and 71st in the world by Forbes magazine with a net worth of $9.8 billion. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Chairman of the Strategic Planning and Corporate Governance Committee and President of MMK Managing Company LLC. Viktor Rashnikov was born on October 13, 1948 in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, into a family of workers. He received two higher education degrees in Metal Forming and Production Management in 1974 and 1994 respectively. He also has a degree of doctor...

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  • Vladimir Potanin

    This time we will talk about Vladimir Potanin, another Russian oligarch who earned his fortune in the foreign economy and is actively giving it away to charity, and who is part of the "2P" tandem with Mikhail Prokhorov. Business interests Vladimir Potanin, currently president of Interros, was born on January 3, 1961, in Moscow to a family of a diplomat and a doctor. Having decided to follow in his father's footsteps, Potanin graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations as an international economist with knowledge of foreign languages. After graduation, Vladimir Potavin worked for 7 years in the structure of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of the USSR. But after the abolition of the state monopoly on foreign trade in the spring of 1990, he created and headed...

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  • На этот раз мы немного расскажем об еще одном российском долларовом миллиардере, который входит в сотню богатейших людей мира, Михаиле Фридмане. Олигарху принадлежали и принадлежат на долевой основе несколько крупнейших и известнейших российских компаний, в числе которых финансово-промышленный консорциум «Альфа-групп», ТНК-ВР и «ВымпелКом». Общее состояние Фридмана оценивается в 6,3 млрд. долл., что, по некоторым мнениям, несколько заниженная цифра. Михаил Маратович Фридман родился 21 апреля 1964г. в городе Львове на Западной Украине (тогда — Украинская ССР) в семье работников оборонной промышленности. Школьные годы Фридман провел на родине, а вот получать профессию в институте решил в Москве, выбрав факультет цветных и редкоземельных…

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  • The hero of the column "People and Facts" is Suleiman Kerimov, who according to the rating of millionaires of Russia 2009 is the 5th in this elite list. Being a kettlebell lifting champion, chairman of trade union committee, ordinary economist, director and deputy, Kerimov is building the "City for Millionaires". Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov was born on March 12, 1966 in Derbent, Dagestan, in the family of a lawyer and an accountant. He was the youngest child. His brother was a doctor and his sister was a teacher. In 1983, Kerimov graduated from high school with a gold medal and entered the Faculty of Construction of the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute. After his first year, he was drafted into the army, where he served...

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  • Vladimir Lisin is probably one of the most modest and overlooked Russian oligarchs. The chairman of Novolipetsk Steel's board of directors, a metallurgical engineer by training, whose fortune is estimated by Forbes at $7.70 billion (226.2 billion rubles), has been closely linked to metallurgy and industry all his life. The billionaire, who ranks third in the ranking of Russia's rich, was born May 7, 1956 in the city of Ivanovo, received a college degree at the Siberian Metallurgical Institute, later upgraded his skills and studied at the Academy of Foreign Trade and the Academy of National Economy. Lisin's first job was at Yuzhkuzbassugol as an electric fitter. Later, the future oligarch rose to become a steelmaker's handyman and then deputy...

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  • The past year has cleaned up the ranks of the American rich pretty good: the combined fortune of the richest Americans has shrunk by $300 billion, from $1.57 trillion to $1.27 trillion. According to a new Forbes ranking, the top ten richest Americans have become $40 billion poorer in the past 12 months. Among the specific reasons for the decline in wealth of the Walt family (Wall-Mart), as well as media mogul Michael Bloomberg are called the collapse in real estate values, low commodity prices, a sharp decline in stock markets and even trivial fraud. For example: the legendary Warren Buffett, an investor in the absolute sense of the word, lost during the crisis 10 billion dollars, and the shares of his company Berkshire Hathaway fell in value...

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