The list of the richest people in Britain includes 16 people from the former USSR

The Sunday Times newspaper has published an annual list of thousands of the richest people in Britain. It includes not only citizens of the country, but also foreigners who live or work in the United Kingdom.

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In the era of globalization, there are many people in the world who were born in one country, grew up in another, live in the third, earn in the fourth, and keep the income in the fifth.

On this basis, the newspaper also includes people who have close ties with Britain: married to the British, owning real estate in the country, business and other assets that provide financial support to British charities, political parties, and universities.

The list included 16 immigrants from the former USSR.

List Sunday Times based on publicly known states in the form of stocks, land, real estate or works of art. Funds in banks were not taken into account, as there is no access to such information.

In cases where it is known that certain millionaires are negotiating with banks on their debts, they go down to a lower place in the list or are excluded from it, although, the newspaper notes, it does not follow from this that in the future they cannot again enter it.

So, who are they, these immigrants from the former USSR, who were on the list of the richest people in Britain, and where did they find themselves in it?

Leonid Blavatnik (Also known in the UK as sir flax blavatnik)

Photo: facebook / Leonard "Len" Blavatnik

Blavatnik ranked Sunday Times 3 place. The newspaper assesses his fortune at 15,2 billion pounds (20,6 billion dollars).

More recently, he was the richest man in the country, and in the 2017 year he was in the list in second place, but his fortune declined by 723 million pounds.

Blavatnik earns money from investments, in particular in the Renova company, as well as from the music industry and the media.

Among other things, he owns a record company. Warner Music Group. In 2017, its revenues increased by 10,2% to 2,6 billion pounds sterling.

Leonid Blavatnik was born in Odessa, studied in Moscow on the same course with Viktor Vekselberg. In 1978, he emigrated with his family to the USA.

Blavatnik now resides in London. In 2010, he became a British citizen.

Blavatnik is actively engaged in charity work, for which in 2017 he was knighted.

The new wing of the Tate Lodnon Gallery of Modern Art (Tate Modern) named after him (Blavatnik donated XMN million to the 50 museum), as well as the new lobby of the Victoria and Albert Museum (5 million).

After he donated 75 million pounds to Oxford University, a Blavatnik business school opened there.

Alisher Usmanov

Usmanov is in the list Sunday Times at xnumx location. His fortune is estimated at 8 billion pounds (10,5 billion dollars). Compared to last year, it decreased by 14,2 billion pounds.

Alisher Usmanov's fixed assets are invested in Metalloinvest, one of the largest mining and metallurgical holdings in Russia. He is also a major shareholder in Megafon, Russia's second largest mobile operator.

Usmanov was one of the first investors in Facebook. Then he sold the shares of this company and invested the money in the Chinese Alibaba and JD.com, and so in Airbnb.

In 2013-2015, he headed the list of the richest people in Russia. Usmanov also owns a 30% stake in the London football club Arsenal.

Alisher Usmanov lives in Sutton Place in the county of Surrey, on a Tudor manor that once belonged to the American oil magnate Paul Getty.

In 2017, Usmanov was in fifth place on the list. Sunday Times.

Roman Abramovich

Roman Abramovich. Photo: Depositphotos

Like last year, Roman Abramovich remains on the 13 spot on the list Sunday Times. The newspaper estimates his wealth at £9,3 billion ($12,6 billion), up $1,2 billion from 2017.

In the late 1980s, after serving in the army, Abramovich went into small business. In 1995, he and Boris Berezovsky bought the privatized Sibneft.

10 years later, Abramovich made huge money by selling his stakes in Sibneft, Aeroflot and the aluminum company Rusal.

From 2000 to 2008 he was the governor of Chukotka, and in 2003 he bought the London football club Chelsea.

Abramovich owns five houses - two in Britain, two in the US state of Colorado and one on the island of Saint Barthelemy. He also owns the world's second largest yacht Eclipseby private plane Boeing-767 and a huge collection of works of art.

According to reports, Roman Abramovich was and remains close to President Vladimir Putin, and may be concerned about the intention of the British government to more scrupulously investigate the origin of the money of foreign businessmen.

In 2007, he divorced Irina Malandina, which cost him £ 1 million in pounds sterling. In 155, he broke up his third wife, Darya Zhukova, which can also cost him a lot of money.

In 2017, he received the right to reside on the island of Jersey in the English Channel as a special important resident.

Vladimir Kim

The list Sunday Times Vladimir Kim took the place 93. His fortune is estimated by the newspaper at 1,4 billion pounds (1,9 billion dollars), which is 790 million pounds more than in the 2017 year.

Kim is the president and major shareholder of the group KAZ Minerals, which is engaged in the extraction and processing of non-ferrous and precious metals, as well as the president of the Kazakhmys holding.

KAZ Minerals based in London, and its shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange.

In 2010, Vladimir Kim sold some of his shares. KAZ Minerals, earning on this 838 million pounds.

In 2016, the company paid thousands of pounds to 454 for helping negotiate with the government of Kazakhstan.

Vladimir Kim is 57 years old. He is a descendant of ethnic Koreans deported from the Far East under Stalin.

As far as we know, Kim has an apartment in the center of London in the building One Hyde Park, where the cheapest accommodation costs 20 million pounds.

He spends part of his time in Almaty.

Evgeny Shvidler

Yevgeny Shvidler, as in the past year, takes 125 -th place in the list Sunday Times. His fortune is estimated at 1,1 billion pounds (1,5 billion dollars).

Shwindler is a childhood friend and longtime business partner of Roman Abramovich.

He sits on the board of directors of Evraz, an international metals and mining company based in London. His share in it is estimated at 162,1 million pounds.

Shvidler is also a partner of Abramovich in an investment company. Millhouse Capital.

Known for not spending money in vain. So, in 2017, he moored the yacht received as a gift from Abramovich The Big Blue at the Statue of Liberty in New York, not to pay the port fee.

Andrey Andreev

44 year-old Internet guru rose in the list for the year Sunday Times from 184 to 136 place. His fortune is a newspaper worth a billion pounds (1,3 billion dollars).

According to the newspaper, 44-year-old Andreev made happy millions of people around the world by creating an online dating site Badoo. In an interview Times he once said: “We destroy loneliness.”

Andreev was born and grew up in Moscow, did not graduate from the university, became a millionaire in 2003, selling an advertising site Begun.

Andreev left Russia at the age of 18. Since 2005, he lives in London.

Then he founded a dating site in Russia Mambaand subsequently the international site Badoo headquartered in SoHo London.

In 2013 year Badoo estimated at 1,2 billion pounds. The company claims that it has 360 millions of users.

At 2014, Andreev, along with the co-founder tinder Whitney Wolf launched a dating site Bumblein which only women can choose a partner.

Vladimir Makhlay

80-year-old Vladimir Makhlai shares a place with Andreev 136.

He headed the Togliattiazot company for 15 years. In May 2011 he retired. The company is now run by his son Sergei.

In 2005, Makhlai had a conflict with Viktor Vekselberg’s Renova holding over control of Togliattiazot.

Makhlai was declared wanted in Russia and went to the UK, seeking asylum there.

The Russian press reports that Makhlai wants to sell his stake in Togliattiazot, estimated at two billion dollars, but the Kremlin allegedly objects to this.

Viktor Pinchuk

Sunday Times estimates the state of the Ukrainian industrialist and investor in a billion pounds. He occupies a place in the list of 136 along with Andreev and Makhlai.

Victor Pinchuk is considered the fourth richest person in Ukraine. He owns, among other things, the Interpipe company, which produces steel pipes and railway wheels.

Pinchuk also owns a London investment group. EastOne.

He is married to the daughter of the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma.

Victor Pinchuk is friends with Elton John. He also donated substantial amounts to the Tony Blair Foundation. Faith Foundation.

There were reports in the press that shortly before the presidential elections in the United States, Donald 150 allegedly paid thousands of dollars to Donald Trump for speaking at a conference organized by the Ukrainian magnate. Special Attorney Robert Muller is currently studying this issue.

In 2017, Victor Pinchuk was on the list. Sunday Times 144 is a place, but has since gained another 100 million pounds.

Elena Baturina

The list Sunday Times the wife of former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Elena Baturina, took 160th place. The newspaper estimates her fortune at 882 million pounds ($1,1 billion), 60 million more than in 2017.

Baturina started her career at the plant, then graduated from the State University of Management. She earned capital in the construction business.

Baturina reached the pinnacle of her financial success in the 2008 year, when her fortune reached 2,6 billion pounds, but since then her money has become somewhat less.

In 2011, she sold her two main companies for 1,2 billion pounds.

Now she owns a network of hotels in Russia, Ireland, the Czech Republic and Austria. She also invests in renewable energy in the south of Europe and has acquired an 75% stake in a German construction company.

Baturin lives on an estate in Hampshire on an area of ​​5500 hectares. She has one of the world's largest collections of products from the Imperial Porcelain Factory.

Gennady Bogolyubov

56-year-old Ukrainian banker ranked on the list Sunday Times 251 place.

His condition was almost halved in a year, from 500 to 245 million pounds, after the Ukrainian authorities nationalized the country's largest private bank Privat-Bank, which he owned together with Igor Kolomoisky.

The share of Bogolyubov in Privat-Bank was 40%.

“Classic illegal seizure,” he said about this.

From 2016, Bogolyubov, who lives in the fashionable London district of Belgravia, is suing Britain with Viktor Pinchuk because of his ownership of the Ukrainian iron ore deposit.

Andrey Borodin and Tatyana Korsakova

The former president of the Bank of Moscow and his wife, an ex-model and fashion designer, own, according to Sunday Times, state in 410 million pounds. Previously, they were not included in the list.

In 2013, the Russian authorities filed charges against Borodin in financial fraud. He declared them politically motivated and associated with his closeness to the mayor Luzhkov, who had recently lost his post, shortly before that. The British authorities granted him political asylum.

Borodin’s financial affairs got better last summer, after Swiss authorities defrosted 20 his bills for a total of 230 million pounds.

Russia, with 2015, is seeking an arrest on the Park Place estate in Berkshire, owned by Borodin and his wife, which they bought for 140 million pounds and is considered the most expensive private home in Britain

The hosts serve over 30 people, including personal stylist Korsakova, her vegan cooks and yoga instructor.

Last year, Korsakova presented her collection of women's leisure wear in the Maldives. She herself likes practical and budget Topshop and H&M, what leads to amazement of visiting Moscow acquaintances.

She also maintains a popular blog. Myhandbook.com about fitness and healthy nutrition.

Alex Gerko

38-year-old mathematician from Russia entered the list for the first time. Sunday Times, taking place in it 772.

His capital in 150 million pounds, he earned on foreign exchange transactions as one of the partners of a British investment company GSA Capital Partnerswhere did you go from Deutsche Bank in 2009, and the founder of the Mayfer based trading company in London XTX Markets.

In it, Gerko owns 75% stake.

XTX Markets was founded in 2015 year, and already the following year showed 75,8 million pounds of profit with fixed capital of 168,5 million pounds.

Irina Malandina

The 51-year-old former Aeroflot flight attendant and second wife of Roman Abramovich received £155 million from her husband during the divorce proceedings, including a house and 600 hectares of land in West Sussex worth £18 million.

After 10 years Sunday Times estimated her fortune at 160 million pounds and identified a place on the list of the rich in Britain on 772. Compared to last year, according to available data, it became poorer by 10 million.

At the end of 2016, Malandina sued her former assistant Cynthia Hoffman, accusing her of causing financial damage: she allegedly bought a villa in Saint-Tropez for 30 million pounds, the real price of which was 12,7 million pounds.

Evgeny Chichvarkin

The 43-year-old founder of Euroset, who began in the 1990s with small trade in Moscow clothing markets, was in 964th place on the list with a capital of 118 million pounds. Its size has remained virtually unchanged since last year.

In September 2008, police conducted a search at Euroset's central office in connection with the case of illegal pressure allegedly exerted five years earlier by the company's security service on a freight forwarder accused of stealing phones.

About a month later, Chichvarkin sold the company, and in December went to London, where he called the incident extortion. A few days later, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against him. Although it was stopped in January 2011, Chichvarkin did not want to return to Russia.

He is currently opening a three-story restaurant in Piccadilly, with the largest wine list in London and the famous French chef Olli Dabu.

For comparison: Queen of Britain Elizabeth II took a place in the list 344 Sunday Times.

Her personal fortune is estimated at 370 million pounds. Over the past year, it has increased by 10 million due to rising real estate prices.

Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle are owned by the state, as are the jewels stored in the Tower - the largest collection of its kind in the world.

The Queen's personal property includes the Sandringham estates in Norfolk and Balmoral in Scotland, a share of the modern office center St. James's Market in central London, shares in British companies worth approximately £110 million, cars, jewelry and more than 100 horses, which over the last 30 years, according to media reports, they have earned about 7 million pounds from horse racing.

In this case, the Queen is famous for thrift. All the toilets in her residences are equipped with water-saving devices, finely cut old newspapers are used as bedding in the stables, and stains on the walls in Balmoral are sealed with wallpaper stored since the time of Queen Victoria.

“The Queen grew up during the war, and it would be hard to find a more temperate spender,” Sir Evelyn Rothschild, a member of the famous banking dynasty who once advised the royal family on financial matters, said last year.

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