The wealth of Russia's richest citizens increased by more than 50 billion dollars last year (2023). Vagit Alekperov, the founder of Lukoil (the second largest Russian oil company), earned the highest income.
The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, cited by the Russian news website Kommersant, shows that the following Russian oligarchs became the richest:
Vagit Alekperov, founder of Lukoil, + USD 9.29 billion (total USD 24.7 billion);
Andrey Melnichenko, co-founder of Eurochem and SUEK, + USD 5.67 billion (total USD 17.42 billion);
NLMK founder Vladimir Lisin, + USD 4.08 billion (total USD 23.9 billion);
former deputy head of Lukoil Leonid Fedun + 3.91 billion USD (total 9.78 billion USD);
Leonid Mikhelson, CEO of NOVATEK, + $2.83 billion ($27.5 billion total).
Acron's main shareholder Vyacheslav Kantor suffered the biggest loss, whose fortune fell by $149 million to $6.21 billion.
Oligarch Vladimir Potanin, the owner of Nornickel, remains the richest RussianAnd his fortune increased by $2.5 billion to $31.1 billion in 2023.
In 2023, the richest person in the world was Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X (formerly Twitter).
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