Pavel Durov for the first time got into the top three richest people in Russia

The founder of the Telegram messenger, 37-year-old Pavel Durov, entered the top three richest people in Russia according to Forbes. Last year, Durov was in ninth place.

Vladimir Lisin, co-owner of NLMK, holds the first place;

“The founder of Telegram was helped not so much by his own successes as by the failures of his neighbors on the list: Pavel Durov lost $ 2.1 billion over the year, but at the same time he was able to bypass the co-owner of NOVATEK Leonid Mikhelson and the main shareholder of Severstal Alexei Mordashov,” writes Forbes.

Pavel Durov for the first time got into the top three richest people in Russia

Mikhelson ranked fourth in the ranking with a fortune of $ 14 billion, and Mordashov was in fifth with $ 13.2 billion. Forbes notes that five people in the top ten are under sanctions. Shares in their companies have more than halved since the end of February.

The publication notes that due to the collapse of the stock market in Russia and the depreciation of the ruble, 65 of the 88 billionaires listed in the list have lost their fortunes, while seven more have remained at the same level.

The owner of the LetterOne group, Mikhail Fridman, took sixth place in the ranking with a fortune of $11.8 billion, seventh place with the main shareholder of USM Alisher Usmanov, his fortune is estimated at $11.5 billion, and eighth place with the shareholder of Novatek and Sibur Gennady Timchenko with $11 .3 billion, ninth – Andrey Melnichenko (SUEK and EuroChem, $ 11.1 billion), in tenth place is Vagit Alekperov (Lukoil, $ 10.5 billion).

Source: ixbt

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