The cumulative state of Russian billionaires increased by $ 35.762 billion in the first five months of the year, RIA Novosti was calculated on the basis of the BLOOMBERG BILLIONAIRES INDEX rating (BBI).
Most of all the main owner of Severstal Alexey Mordashov (5.73 billion dollars, to 28.8 billion). Also increased the state of the main beneficiary of NLMK Vladimir Lisin (by 5.43 billion, to 29.3 billion dollars).
In the first place among Russian billionaires there is one of the main owners of Nickel Vladimir Potanin (plus $ 3.81 billion, up to 33.8 billion). The top ten, Leonid Michelson (plus 4.45 billion dollars), the co-owner of “LUKOIL” Vagit Alekperov (his wealth increased by 2.82 billion), Gennady Timchenko (“Novatek” and “SIBUR”) rich on 2 , 72 billion, Roman Abramovich (Evraz) – by 445 million dollars, and the main owner of Renov Victor Vekselberg is 1.37 billion dollars.
Six participants rating capital decreased. Most of all lost the beneficiary “Eurochem” and SUK Andrei Melnichenko (1.59 billion dollars) and Alisher Usmanov (“Metalloinvest”, “MegaFon”) – 713 million dollars.
Earlier it was reported that the cumulative state of Russian billionaires in relation to the country’s GDP turned out to be a record compared to other countries. The share of billionaires from the Forbes list accounts for about 35 percent of the entire size of the Russian economy.