Russia: counted 117 dollar billionaires

in Russia for 2021 there are more than a hundred dollar billionaires. This follows from the world ranking of owners of billions of billionth, prepared and published on Tuesday, April 6, American Forbes edition.

As calculated in Forbes, at present, the dollar billionaires are 117 Russians. For this indicator, Russia ranks fifth in the world after the United States (724), China (698, taking into account the rich of Hong Kong and Macau), India (140) and Germany (136).

From Russians The highest, 51st place in the global ranking is held by Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Severstal Alexey Mordashov with a state of 29.1 billion dollars. Behind him, at the 55th place, the President of the Interros Holding and the largest shareholder of Nickel Vladimir Potanin with 27 billion dollars. Closes the top three of the richest representatives of Russia in the ranking of the main beneficiary NLMK Vladimir Lisin, whose account is 26.2 billion dollars.

2755 rich from around the world came to the Forbes rating. Their general condition is estimated in a record 13.08 trillion dollars, which is 64 percent more than a year earlier. At the same time, the first line of the rating, as in the 2020th, the founder and general director of the Internet retailer Amazon Jeff Bezos with 177 billion, the second – founder of Tesla and Spacex companies Ilon Mask from 151 billion, and the third – owner of the fashion house LVMH Bernard Arno And his family, which have 150 billion dollars.

As the publication notes, this year in the ranking of 493 newcomers. At the same time, 84 billionaires, which were held in last year’s list, in 2021, dropped out of it, of which 23 due to death.

Earlier in April, it was reported that the cumulative state of Russian billionaires increased by $ 23.9 billion from the beginning of 2021. According to the rating of Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Vladimir Potanin (Norilskel) remained the leader among the Russian rich, the state of which for the first quarter of this year increased by $ 235 million to 30.3 billion dollars.

/Media reports.