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The term "oligarch" derives from the Ancient Greek oligarkhia meaning "the rule of the few".
I had this list attached to another thread. The list kept getting longer because I was finding so many Russian oligarchs that I decided to place the ones that I found here in its own thread. :
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - A Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.
"A killer. As far as his wealth, I don't think even he knows how much he owns. Except that he knows he owns Russia."
Aras Agalarov - Billionaire Aras Agalarov is a Russian oligarch and real estate developer, known as the "Russian Trump". Unlike his friend, Donald Trump, Aras does not seek out publicity, instead maintaining a life of luxury away from the public eye in a manner that is expected of oligarchs in Russia. He paid Trump $20,000,000 to hold the 2013 Miss Universe pageant at his Crocus City Hall concert hall, and they would later discuss the construction of a Trump Tower in Russia.
Alexander Mijeev - CEO of Rosoboronexport, a major Russian military weapons company. Rosoboronexport's parent company is Rostec, Russia's biggest defense conglomerate founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2007. Former head of the Russian Helicopter Corporation. In 2016, he took over Rostec, a Russian state-owned weapons supplier. The yatcht that was sunk, The Lady Anastasia, was owned by Alexander Mijeev.
Farkhad Akhmedov - Akhmedov belongs to a relatively small circle of Russian billionaires who can easily prove the legal origin of their fortune. He has never taken part in the so-called "loans-for-shares auctions" and is one of the few large Russian businessmen who has not used state budget subsidies. In the Forbes files, Akhmedov is described as a "self-made" man.
Igor Altushkin - The man behind RCC Boxing is Igor Altushkin, one of the richest men in the Russian Federation. The oligarch began his career as a scrap metal trader in the early 1990's before founding the Russian Copper Company (RMK), an organization that would go on to become Russia's third-largest copper producer.
Alexey Ustaev - Ustaev is the founder and president of the St. Petersburg-based investment bank Viking. Ustaev has received a plethora of awards for his work, including one for being the "best leader of Russia," and an award from the Russian Sports Ministry for his charitable work.
Vasily Anisimov - Property developer
Petr Aven - Petr Aven, also known as Pyotr Aven, is a Russian oligarch, businessman, economist and politician. He heads Alfa Bank Group, Russia's largest private sector bank. Together with fellow billionaire Mikhail Fridman and four other partners he cofounded the investment firm LetterOne in 2013.
Vladimir Bogdanov - Russian Oligarchs Vladimir Bogdanov is being designated for operating in the energy sector of the Russian Federation economy. Bogdanov is the Director General and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Surgutneftegaz, a vertically integrated oil company operating in Russia.
Oleg Deripaska - Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska is a Russian oligarch and industrialist. He is the founder of Basic Element, one of Russia's largest industrial groups, and Volnoe Delo, Russia's largest charitable foundation. The founder of Russian aluminium giant Rusal (EN+), called for a coherent economic plan as escalating financial sanctions threaten to cripple the country's economy.
Mikhail Fridman - Mikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Ukranian-born, Russian oligarch. He also holds Israeli citizenship. He co-founded Alfa-Group, a multinational Russian conglomerate. He is the chairman of Alfa Bank. According to Forbes, he was the seventh richest Russian as of 2017. Alfa-Group is a private conglomerate operating primarily in Russia and former Soviet states that spans banking, insurance, retail and mineral water production. Fridman has a net worth of $11.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index. (Note: Maybe he is one reason for Israel's governments (Tel Aviv) lackluster response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?)
Roman Abramovich - Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian oligarch, billionaire, businessman, and politician. Abramovich enriched himself in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, obtaining Russian state-owned assets at prices far below market value in Russia's controversial loans-for-shares privatization program in Russia's controversial loans-for-shares privatization program. Owner of the Premier League football club Chelsea. Abramovich was a confidante of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin and current Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Gennady Timchenko - The founder and shareholder of Volga Group (privately held investment vehicle that manages assets), is also on the EU list. He is a shareholder of Bank Rossiya, which is already under sanctions imposed by the EU and UK. Timchenko reportedly has around $17 billion in assets and made his fortune in oil trading.
Rosneft Sechin - One of Putin's "most trusted and closest advisers, as well as his personal friend", who had been in contact with the president on a daily basis and has been receiving financial gains and "important assignments in return for subordination and loyalty". He is considered a close ally and "de facto deputy" of Vladimir Putin.
Nikolay Petrovich Tokarev - The chief executive of Russian oil and gas pipeline company Transneft, served with Putin in the KGB and is said by the EU to be "one of the state oligarchs who assumed control over large state assets in the 2000s as Putin consolidated power, and who operates in close partnership with the Russian state".
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov - One of Putin's "favorite oligarchs". Usmanov enriched himself considerably after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He built his wealth through metal and mining operations, and investments, and is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which consolidated in 2006 JSC Metalloinvest's assets (the Mikhailovsky GOK and the Ural Steel) with those of Gazmetall JSC (the Lebedinsky GOK and the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant). He owns the Kommersant publishing house. He is also a co‑owner of Russia's second-largest mobile telephone operator, MegaFon, and owner of Udokan copper which develops one of the largest copper deposits in the world. Usmanov is the largest investor of Digital Sky Technologies ("DST") funds, and holds shares in a number of international technology companies. Usmanov eventually teamed up with Yuri Milner.
Sergei Roldugin - Dubbed "Putin's wallet", who keeps his assets at Bank Rossiya. He has been implicated in several money laundering and offshore wealth schemes. The EU cites an investigation by an international media consortium which alleged that Roldugin is responsible for "shuffling" at least $2bn through banks and offshore companies as a part of Putin's hidden financial network.
Alexei Mordashov - Chair of the steelmaker Severstal and Severgroup, which the EU said controls television stations that actively support Moscow's policies of destabilising Ukraine. He also owns 34 per cent of Germany-listed travel group Tui. Mordashov's personal net worth at US$25.8 billion, making him the fourth-richest person in Russia. In the Forbes ranking, which takes into account the assets of the whole family, Mordashov ranks first among Russian billionaires ($29.1B). Russia's richest man.
Alexander Ponomarenko -Another oligarch on the list with close links to Putin's inner circle and with the leadership in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. Like several other oligarchs, Ponomarenko had financed a palace complex considered to be personally used by Putin, the EU said. A Russian billionaire businessman who made his fortune in banking, sea ports, commercial real estate and airport construction. Forbes estimates his net worth at $3.3 billion.
Igor Sechin - The chief executive of Rosneft, Russia's top oil producer. A former member of the siloviki, the term used to describe figures with a military and security background, Sechin worked with Vladimir Putin in the St Petersburg mayor's office in the 1990s. Putin brought him to Moscow when joining the national government. Sechin served as deputy of the Kremlin's administration and Russia's deputy prime minister before being appointed head of Rosneft in 2012.
Alexander Abramov - A Russian former scientist who became an industrial magnate as one of the two heads of Evraz, Russia's largest steel producer. Beginning in 1998, at one point he had amassed the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employed 125,000 people, controlling about 22 percent of the country's total steel output with an annual turnover of $20 billion. A business partner and ally of Aleksandr Frolov and Roman Abramovich.
Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov - A Russian billionaire, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets. After graduating from the Moscow Finance Institute, he worked in the financial sector and subsequently went on to become one of Russia's leading industrialists, owning major stakes in multinational corporations in the precious metals sector. While he was running Norilsk Nickel, the company became the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium. He is the former chairman of Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold producer.
German Borisovich Khan - German Khan holds Ukrainian, Russian and Israeli citizenship. He was then appointed the head of the wholesale trade business Alfa Eco as part of the Alfa Group Consortium, by Mikhail Fridman. in 1996. He was instrumental in directing the company to focus on export and the oil trade. When Alfa bought Tyumen Oil (TNK) in 1997, he joined the board of directors. He was deputy chairman of TNK Oil Company from 1997 until 2003. In 2003, Khan worked with the other TNK owners to form a 50–50 joint venture with British Petroleum (BP), in what was the largest foreign investment in Russia to date, at US$8 billion.
Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg - A Ukrainian born, billionaire businessman. He is the owner and president of Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate. As of November 2021, his fortune is estimated at $9.3 billion, making him the 262nd richest person in the world. Vekselberg is close to the Kremlin, overseeing projects to modernize the Russian economy. In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him.
Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson - Born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family, is a Russian billionaire businessman, CEO, chairman and major shareholder of the Russian gas company Novatek. He has a net worth of US$34.5 billion, as of October 2021, making him the 35th richest person in the world.
Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov - An Azerbaijani and Russian oligarch, businessman, and the president of the leading Russian oil company LUKOIL. Previously he worked as the First Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR (1991-1992). He has an academic degree of a doctor of economics. As of 16 April 2021, Alekperov has an estimated net worth of USD $19.6 billion. Alekperov owns 36.8% stake in Spartak Football Club (Moscow).
Dmitry Yevgenyevich Rybolovlev - A billionaire businessman, and investor. As of 2021, Rybolovlev had a reported net worth of $6.7 billion, which ranked him 391st on Forbes's list of billionaires. Rybolovlev owned the potash producer Uralkali and, in 2011, became the majority owner and President of Monaco's football club AS Monaco.
Vladimir Olegovich Potanin - Acquired his wealth notably through the controversial loans-for-shares program in Russia in the early to mid-1990s. He is the second wealthiest man in Russia and the 10th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $87 billion. His long-term business partner was Mikhail Prokhorov until they decided to split in 2007. Subsequently, they put their mutual assets in a holding company, Folletina Trading, until their asset division was agreed upon. Potanin appeared on the US Treasury's "Putin list" of 210 individuals closely associated with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Vitaly Borisovich Malkin - A Russian-Cypriot-Israeli business oligarch and politician who was born in Pervouralsk near Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Malkin built his fortune in the banking sector, notably with his business partner Bidzina Ivanishvili. The two men founded Rossiysky Kredit, which was the third largest Russian bank.
Kirill Nikolayevich Shamalov - A Russian businessman, the ex-husband of Katerina Tikhonova and the ex-son-in-law of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was the former economic advisor to the Russian government. He is the younger son of Nikolai Shamalov, a co-owner of Rossiya Bank. Shamalov is a vice-president of Sibur holding.
Alexander Mikheev - The head of Rosoboronexport, a company that specializes in exporting weapons, such as tanks, ships, weapons and ammunition.
Boris Romanovich Rotenberg - Co-owner (with his brother Arkady Rotenberg) of the SGM (StroyGazMontazh) group, the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia.
Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg - A Russian billionaire businessman. With his brother Boris Rotenberg, he was co-owner of the Stroygazmontazh (S.G.M. group), the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia. He is a close confidant, business partner, and childhood friend of president Vladimir Putin. As of November 2017, Forbes estimates his fortune at $2.5 billion. Rotenberg became a billionaire through lucrative state-sponsored construction projects and oil pipelines.
Sergei Viktorovich Chemezov - The CEO of Rostec Corporation. A former KGB agent and high-ranking general, Chemezov befriended Vladimir Putin when both were stationed in East Germany in the 1980s. Chemezov enriched himself when Putin became President of Russia. In 2007, Putin appointed him as CEO of Rostec.
Igor Ivanovich Shuvalov - A Russian politician. Since May 2018 he became the Chairman of State Development Corporation VEB.RF (Ex-Vensheconombank). From May 2012 to May 2018 he was First Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet.
Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin - A Russian businessman, with close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin was called "Putin's chef" in an Associated Press article because of Prigozhin's restaurants and catering businesses that hosted dinners which Vladimir Putin attended with foreign dignitaries. Prigozhin controls "a network of companies," including three accused of interference in the 2016 United States elections. Prigozhin is also accused of attempting to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Prigozhin, his companies and associates face economic sanctions and criminal charges in the United States.
Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov - A Russian diplomat who is the press secretary for the Russian president.
Konstantin Valeryevich Malofeev - A Russian businessman and chairman of non-government pro-monarchism organization Society for the Development of Russian Historical Education Double-Headed Eagle. He is chairman of the board of directors of the media group Tsargrad dedicated to Russian Orthodox Christianity and support of President Vladimir Putin. He is also a founder of the international investment fund Marshall Capital Partners, member of the board of trustees of the non-profit partnership Safe Internet League and chairman of the Saint Basil the Great Charitable Foundation. He has been on the list of personal sanctions imposed by the US, EU, and Canada since 2014. In 2017, Ukraine put Malofeev on the international wanted list, accusing him of creating illegal paramilitary groups.
Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov - Vladimir Solovyov was born into a Jewish family. A Russian businessman and chairman of non-government pro-monarchism organization Society for the Development of Russian Historical Education Double-Headed Eagle. He is chairman of the board of directors of the media group Tsargrad dedicated to Russian Orthodox Christianity and support of President Vladimir Putin. He is also a founder of the international investment fund Marshall Capital Partners, member of the board of trustees of the non-profit partnership Safe Internet League and chairman of the Saint Basil the Great Charitable Foundation. He has been on the list of personal sanctions imposed by the US, EU, and Canada since 2014. In 2017, Ukraine put Malofeev on the international wanted list, accusing him of creating illegal paramilitary groups.
Nikolay Tokarev - CEO of state-controlled Transneft, the world's largest oil pipeline company. The oligarch served in the KGB alongside Putin and is one of his "longtime acquaintances," per the EU.
Petr Fradkov – A Russian economist and banker. Chairman of Russia's state-owned bank PJSC Promsvyazbank, which "provides financial support to the Russian defense sector and the Russian Military," per the EU sanctions list.
Alexander Medvedev - Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom and since February 2019 he is the director general and president of the football club FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. There are speculations that he had an undercover KGB job because he worked at Donau Bank at the same time as Andrei Akimov, another KGB officer and now Gazprombank's chief.
Eugene Shvidler - - Evgeny Markovich Shvidler a billionaire oil businessman who was born into the prominent Jewish family of Soviet geologist Mark Iosifovich Shvidler. He is a business associate of Roman Abramovich.
Andrey Melnichenko - The founder and ex-beneficiary of fertilizer producer EuroChem Group and coal company SUEK. He is the majority owner of the Murmansk Commercial Sea Port. His net worth is estimated at US$15.8 billion, the 7th richest person in Russia.
Vladimir Strzhalkovsky - A former KGB agent and a longtime associate of Putin who made his millions in nickel mining as the Chief Executive Officer of Norilsk Nickel. In 2011 he left the company with a "golden parachute payout" of $100 million. He then bought the famous Italian Scarpa winery. In 2015 he became vice president of Board of Directors of Bank of Cyprus. He is also chairman of VFSO "Dynamo Moscow".
Dmitrievich A. Pumpyansky - Russian billionaire businessman. A metals trader, then ran several metal factories, then took over the Sinarsky Pipe Factory. Owner of steel group TMK.
I had this list attached to another thread. The list kept getting longer because I was finding so many Russian oligarchs that I decided to place the ones that I found here in its own thread. :
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - A Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the president of Russia.
"A killer. As far as his wealth, I don't think even he knows how much he owns. Except that he knows he owns Russia."
Aras Agalarov - Billionaire Aras Agalarov is a Russian oligarch and real estate developer, known as the "Russian Trump". Unlike his friend, Donald Trump, Aras does not seek out publicity, instead maintaining a life of luxury away from the public eye in a manner that is expected of oligarchs in Russia. He paid Trump $20,000,000 to hold the 2013 Miss Universe pageant at his Crocus City Hall concert hall, and they would later discuss the construction of a Trump Tower in Russia.
Alexander Mijeev - CEO of Rosoboronexport, a major Russian military weapons company. Rosoboronexport's parent company is Rostec, Russia's biggest defense conglomerate founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2007. Former head of the Russian Helicopter Corporation. In 2016, he took over Rostec, a Russian state-owned weapons supplier. The yatcht that was sunk, The Lady Anastasia, was owned by Alexander Mijeev.
Farkhad Akhmedov - Akhmedov belongs to a relatively small circle of Russian billionaires who can easily prove the legal origin of their fortune. He has never taken part in the so-called "loans-for-shares auctions" and is one of the few large Russian businessmen who has not used state budget subsidies. In the Forbes files, Akhmedov is described as a "self-made" man.
Igor Altushkin - The man behind RCC Boxing is Igor Altushkin, one of the richest men in the Russian Federation. The oligarch began his career as a scrap metal trader in the early 1990's before founding the Russian Copper Company (RMK), an organization that would go on to become Russia's third-largest copper producer.
Alexey Ustaev - Ustaev is the founder and president of the St. Petersburg-based investment bank Viking. Ustaev has received a plethora of awards for his work, including one for being the "best leader of Russia," and an award from the Russian Sports Ministry for his charitable work.
Vasily Anisimov - Property developer
Petr Aven - Petr Aven, also known as Pyotr Aven, is a Russian oligarch, businessman, economist and politician. He heads Alfa Bank Group, Russia's largest private sector bank. Together with fellow billionaire Mikhail Fridman and four other partners he cofounded the investment firm LetterOne in 2013.
Vladimir Bogdanov - Russian Oligarchs Vladimir Bogdanov is being designated for operating in the energy sector of the Russian Federation economy. Bogdanov is the Director General and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Surgutneftegaz, a vertically integrated oil company operating in Russia.
Oleg Deripaska - Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska is a Russian oligarch and industrialist. He is the founder of Basic Element, one of Russia's largest industrial groups, and Volnoe Delo, Russia's largest charitable foundation. The founder of Russian aluminium giant Rusal (EN+), called for a coherent economic plan as escalating financial sanctions threaten to cripple the country's economy.
Mikhail Fridman - Mikhail Maratovich Fridman is a Ukranian-born, Russian oligarch. He also holds Israeli citizenship. He co-founded Alfa-Group, a multinational Russian conglomerate. He is the chairman of Alfa Bank. According to Forbes, he was the seventh richest Russian as of 2017. Alfa-Group is a private conglomerate operating primarily in Russia and former Soviet states that spans banking, insurance, retail and mineral water production. Fridman has a net worth of $11.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire's Index. (Note: Maybe he is one reason for Israel's governments (Tel Aviv) lackluster response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?)
Roman Abramovich - Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich is a Russian oligarch, billionaire, businessman, and politician. Abramovich enriched himself in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, obtaining Russian state-owned assets at prices far below market value in Russia's controversial loans-for-shares privatization program in Russia's controversial loans-for-shares privatization program. Owner of the Premier League football club Chelsea. Abramovich was a confidante of former Russian president Boris Yeltsin and current Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Gennady Timchenko - The founder and shareholder of Volga Group (privately held investment vehicle that manages assets), is also on the EU list. He is a shareholder of Bank Rossiya, which is already under sanctions imposed by the EU and UK. Timchenko reportedly has around $17 billion in assets and made his fortune in oil trading.
Rosneft Sechin - One of Putin's "most trusted and closest advisers, as well as his personal friend", who had been in contact with the president on a daily basis and has been receiving financial gains and "important assignments in return for subordination and loyalty". He is considered a close ally and "de facto deputy" of Vladimir Putin.
Nikolay Petrovich Tokarev - The chief executive of Russian oil and gas pipeline company Transneft, served with Putin in the KGB and is said by the EU to be "one of the state oligarchs who assumed control over large state assets in the 2000s as Putin consolidated power, and who operates in close partnership with the Russian state".
Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov - One of Putin's "favorite oligarchs". Usmanov enriched himself considerably after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He built his wealth through metal and mining operations, and investments, and is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which consolidated in 2006 JSC Metalloinvest's assets (the Mikhailovsky GOK and the Ural Steel) with those of Gazmetall JSC (the Lebedinsky GOK and the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant). He owns the Kommersant publishing house. He is also a co‑owner of Russia's second-largest mobile telephone operator, MegaFon, and owner of Udokan copper which develops one of the largest copper deposits in the world. Usmanov is the largest investor of Digital Sky Technologies ("DST") funds, and holds shares in a number of international technology companies. Usmanov eventually teamed up with Yuri Milner.
Sergei Roldugin - Dubbed "Putin's wallet", who keeps his assets at Bank Rossiya. He has been implicated in several money laundering and offshore wealth schemes. The EU cites an investigation by an international media consortium which alleged that Roldugin is responsible for "shuffling" at least $2bn through banks and offshore companies as a part of Putin's hidden financial network.
Alexei Mordashov - Chair of the steelmaker Severstal and Severgroup, which the EU said controls television stations that actively support Moscow's policies of destabilising Ukraine. He also owns 34 per cent of Germany-listed travel group Tui. Mordashov's personal net worth at US$25.8 billion, making him the fourth-richest person in Russia. In the Forbes ranking, which takes into account the assets of the whole family, Mordashov ranks first among Russian billionaires ($29.1B). Russia's richest man.
Alexander Ponomarenko -Another oligarch on the list with close links to Putin's inner circle and with the leadership in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. Like several other oligarchs, Ponomarenko had financed a palace complex considered to be personally used by Putin, the EU said. A Russian billionaire businessman who made his fortune in banking, sea ports, commercial real estate and airport construction. Forbes estimates his net worth at $3.3 billion.
Igor Sechin - The chief executive of Rosneft, Russia's top oil producer. A former member of the siloviki, the term used to describe figures with a military and security background, Sechin worked with Vladimir Putin in the St Petersburg mayor's office in the 1990s. Putin brought him to Moscow when joining the national government. Sechin served as deputy of the Kremlin's administration and Russia's deputy prime minister before being appointed head of Rosneft in 2012.
Alexander Abramov - A Russian former scientist who became an industrial magnate as one of the two heads of Evraz, Russia's largest steel producer. Beginning in 1998, at one point he had amassed the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employed 125,000 people, controlling about 22 percent of the country's total steel output with an annual turnover of $20 billion. A business partner and ally of Aleksandr Frolov and Roman Abramovich.
Mikhail Dmitrievitch Prokhorov - A Russian billionaire, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets. After graduating from the Moscow Finance Institute, he worked in the financial sector and subsequently went on to become one of Russia's leading industrialists, owning major stakes in multinational corporations in the precious metals sector. While he was running Norilsk Nickel, the company became the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium. He is the former chairman of Polyus Gold, Russia's largest gold producer.
German Borisovich Khan - German Khan holds Ukrainian, Russian and Israeli citizenship. He was then appointed the head of the wholesale trade business Alfa Eco as part of the Alfa Group Consortium, by Mikhail Fridman. in 1996. He was instrumental in directing the company to focus on export and the oil trade. When Alfa bought Tyumen Oil (TNK) in 1997, he joined the board of directors. He was deputy chairman of TNK Oil Company from 1997 until 2003. In 2003, Khan worked with the other TNK owners to form a 50–50 joint venture with British Petroleum (BP), in what was the largest foreign investment in Russia to date, at US$8 billion.
Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg - A Ukrainian born, billionaire businessman. He is the owner and president of Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate. As of November 2021, his fortune is estimated at $9.3 billion, making him the 262nd richest person in the world. Vekselberg is close to the Kremlin, overseeing projects to modernize the Russian economy. In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on him.
Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson - Born to an Ashkenazi Jewish family, is a Russian billionaire businessman, CEO, chairman and major shareholder of the Russian gas company Novatek. He has a net worth of US$34.5 billion, as of October 2021, making him the 35th richest person in the world.
Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov - An Azerbaijani and Russian oligarch, businessman, and the president of the leading Russian oil company LUKOIL. Previously he worked as the First Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR (1991-1992). He has an academic degree of a doctor of economics. As of 16 April 2021, Alekperov has an estimated net worth of USD $19.6 billion. Alekperov owns 36.8% stake in Spartak Football Club (Moscow).
Dmitry Yevgenyevich Rybolovlev - A billionaire businessman, and investor. As of 2021, Rybolovlev had a reported net worth of $6.7 billion, which ranked him 391st on Forbes's list of billionaires. Rybolovlev owned the potash producer Uralkali and, in 2011, became the majority owner and President of Monaco's football club AS Monaco.
Vladimir Olegovich Potanin - Acquired his wealth notably through the controversial loans-for-shares program in Russia in the early to mid-1990s. He is the second wealthiest man in Russia and the 10th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $87 billion. His long-term business partner was Mikhail Prokhorov until they decided to split in 2007. Subsequently, they put their mutual assets in a holding company, Folletina Trading, until their asset division was agreed upon. Potanin appeared on the US Treasury's "Putin list" of 210 individuals closely associated with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Vitaly Borisovich Malkin - A Russian-Cypriot-Israeli business oligarch and politician who was born in Pervouralsk near Yekaterinburg, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Malkin built his fortune in the banking sector, notably with his business partner Bidzina Ivanishvili. The two men founded Rossiysky Kredit, which was the third largest Russian bank.
Kirill Nikolayevich Shamalov - A Russian businessman, the ex-husband of Katerina Tikhonova and the ex-son-in-law of the Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was the former economic advisor to the Russian government. He is the younger son of Nikolai Shamalov, a co-owner of Rossiya Bank. Shamalov is a vice-president of Sibur holding.
Alexander Mikheev - The head of Rosoboronexport, a company that specializes in exporting weapons, such as tanks, ships, weapons and ammunition.
Boris Romanovich Rotenberg - Co-owner (with his brother Arkady Rotenberg) of the SGM (StroyGazMontazh) group, the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia.
Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg - A Russian billionaire businessman. With his brother Boris Rotenberg, he was co-owner of the Stroygazmontazh (S.G.M. group), the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia. He is a close confidant, business partner, and childhood friend of president Vladimir Putin. As of November 2017, Forbes estimates his fortune at $2.5 billion. Rotenberg became a billionaire through lucrative state-sponsored construction projects and oil pipelines.
Sergei Viktorovich Chemezov - The CEO of Rostec Corporation. A former KGB agent and high-ranking general, Chemezov befriended Vladimir Putin when both were stationed in East Germany in the 1980s. Chemezov enriched himself when Putin became President of Russia. In 2007, Putin appointed him as CEO of Rostec.
Igor Ivanovich Shuvalov - A Russian politician. Since May 2018 he became the Chairman of State Development Corporation VEB.RF (Ex-Vensheconombank). From May 2012 to May 2018 he was First Deputy Prime Minister in Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet.
Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin - A Russian businessman, with close ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin was called "Putin's chef" in an Associated Press article because of Prigozhin's restaurants and catering businesses that hosted dinners which Vladimir Putin attended with foreign dignitaries. Prigozhin controls "a network of companies," including three accused of interference in the 2016 United States elections. Prigozhin is also accused of attempting to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. Prigozhin, his companies and associates face economic sanctions and criminal charges in the United States.
Dmitry Sergeyevich Peskov - A Russian diplomat who is the press secretary for the Russian president.
Konstantin Valeryevich Malofeev - A Russian businessman and chairman of non-government pro-monarchism organization Society for the Development of Russian Historical Education Double-Headed Eagle. He is chairman of the board of directors of the media group Tsargrad dedicated to Russian Orthodox Christianity and support of President Vladimir Putin. He is also a founder of the international investment fund Marshall Capital Partners, member of the board of trustees of the non-profit partnership Safe Internet League and chairman of the Saint Basil the Great Charitable Foundation. He has been on the list of personal sanctions imposed by the US, EU, and Canada since 2014. In 2017, Ukraine put Malofeev on the international wanted list, accusing him of creating illegal paramilitary groups.
Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov - Vladimir Solovyov was born into a Jewish family. A Russian businessman and chairman of non-government pro-monarchism organization Society for the Development of Russian Historical Education Double-Headed Eagle. He is chairman of the board of directors of the media group Tsargrad dedicated to Russian Orthodox Christianity and support of President Vladimir Putin. He is also a founder of the international investment fund Marshall Capital Partners, member of the board of trustees of the non-profit partnership Safe Internet League and chairman of the Saint Basil the Great Charitable Foundation. He has been on the list of personal sanctions imposed by the US, EU, and Canada since 2014. In 2017, Ukraine put Malofeev on the international wanted list, accusing him of creating illegal paramilitary groups.
Nikolay Tokarev - CEO of state-controlled Transneft, the world's largest oil pipeline company. The oligarch served in the KGB alongside Putin and is one of his "longtime acquaintances," per the EU.
Petr Fradkov – A Russian economist and banker. Chairman of Russia's state-owned bank PJSC Promsvyazbank, which "provides financial support to the Russian defense sector and the Russian Military," per the EU sanctions list.
Alexander Medvedev - Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom and since February 2019 he is the director general and president of the football club FC Zenit Saint Petersburg. There are speculations that he had an undercover KGB job because he worked at Donau Bank at the same time as Andrei Akimov, another KGB officer and now Gazprombank's chief.
Eugene Shvidler - - Evgeny Markovich Shvidler a billionaire oil businessman who was born into the prominent Jewish family of Soviet geologist Mark Iosifovich Shvidler. He is a business associate of Roman Abramovich.
Andrey Melnichenko - The founder and ex-beneficiary of fertilizer producer EuroChem Group and coal company SUEK. He is the majority owner of the Murmansk Commercial Sea Port. His net worth is estimated at US$15.8 billion, the 7th richest person in Russia.
Vladimir Strzhalkovsky - A former KGB agent and a longtime associate of Putin who made his millions in nickel mining as the Chief Executive Officer of Norilsk Nickel. In 2011 he left the company with a "golden parachute payout" of $100 million. He then bought the famous Italian Scarpa winery. In 2015 he became vice president of Board of Directors of Bank of Cyprus. He is also chairman of VFSO "Dynamo Moscow".
Dmitrievich A. Pumpyansky - Russian billionaire businessman. A metals trader, then ran several metal factories, then took over the Sinarsky Pipe Factory. Owner of steel group TMK.
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