Billionaires Born in Russia

Ranked by recorded net worth, using documented birthplaces.

RichGeo records 82 people for Russia by birthplace. 19 have reported or estimated net worth of at least $1 billion.

82
People recorded
19
Net worth of $1B or more
$194B
Combined recorded net worth

States and provinces

Moscow 21Saint Petersburg 12Moscow Oblast 4Vologda Oblast 3Nizhny Novgorod Oblast 3Kirov Oblast 2Sverdlovsk Oblast 2Tatarstan 2Irkutsk Oblast 2Bashkortostan 2Smolensk Oblast 2Dagestan 1Ivanovo Oblast 1Saratov Oblast 1Perm Krai 1Iultin 1Novgorod Oblast 1Udmurtia 1Ulyanovsk Oblast 1Krasnoyarsk Krai 1Krasnodar Krai 1Autonomous Republic of Crimea 1Kemerovo Oblast 1Leningrad Oblast 1North Ossetia–Alania 1Khabarovsk Krai 1Zabaykalsky Krai 1Bryansk Oblast 1Buryatia 1Vladimir Oblast 1Pskov Oblast 1Sakha 1Sakhalin Oblast 1Chelyabinsk Oblast 1Astrakhan Oblast 1Amur Oblast 1Magadan Oblast 1
Locations without recorded people
Kaliningrad OblastNovosibirsk OblastTyumen OblastRostov OblastYaroslavl Oblast

Billionaires and Business LeadersBy net worth

  1. 1Sergey BrinMoscow · American billionaire businessman (born 1973)$49.8B
  2. 2Leonid MikhelsonKaspiysk · Russian businessman$24B
  3. 3Vladimir LisinIvanovo · Russian businessman$21.3B
  4. 4Alexei MordashovCherepovets · Russian businessman$20.5B
  5. 5Vladimir PotaninMoscow · Russian billionaire$18.1B
  6. 6Mikhail ProkhorovMoscow · Russian entrepreneur and politician (born 1965)$9.8B
  7. 7Roman AbramovichSaratov · Russian-Israeli-Portuguese oligarch and former politician (born 1966)$9.3B
  8. 8Igor OlenicoffMoscow Oblast · American businessman$8B
  9. 9Dmitry RybolovlevPerm · Russian fertilizer magnate and art collector$7.7B
  10. 10Alexei KuzmichovKirov · Russian businessman$7.5B
  11. 11Sergei PopovYekaterinburg · Russian businessman and banker$4.5B
  12. 12Oleg DeripaskaDzerzhinsk · Russian businessman$2.97B est.
  13. 13Pavel DurovSaint Petersburg · technology entrepreneur (born 1984)$2.7B
  14. 14Kostyantin ZhevagoIultin · Ukrainian businessman/politician$2.4B
  15. 15Vadym NovynskyiStaraya Russa · Ukrainian businessman and politician$1.4B
  16. 16Boris TitovMoscow · Russian politician and businessman$1.03B
  17. 17Sergey GordeyevMoscow · Russian politician$1B
  18. 18Andrey Anatolyevich KozitsynVerkhnyaya Pyshma · Russian Billionaire & Businessman$1B
  19. 19Roustam TarikoMenzelinsk · Russian businessman$1B
  20. 20Vladimir PutinPublic company founderV.F. Snegiryov Maternity Hospital No.6 · President of the Russian Federation$97.81K
  21. 21Rodion ShishkovTech founderSaint Petersburg · Russian tech entrepreneurUndisclosed
  22. 22Vyacheslav BocharovTech founderVladikavkazUndisclosed
  23. 23Kim Jong-ilTech founderVyatskoye · Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011Undisclosed
  24. 24Timur TurlovPublic company founderMoscow · Russian-born Kazakhstani entrepreneur and businessman (born 1987)Undisclosed
  25. 25亚历克斯·托马斯·沃尔夫Tech founderSterlitamak · Russian-American writer and journalist (b.2005)Undisclosed
  26. 26Mikhail KokorichPublic company founderAginskoye · Russian physicist and entrepreneurUndisclosed
  27. 27Arsen TomskyTech founderYakutsk · Kazakhstani businessmanUndisclosed
  28. 28Michael KaganPublic company founderSaint Petersburg · Israeli engineer and technology executiveUndisclosed
  29. 29Dmitry KhanukovTech founderSaint Petersburg · American technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CTO of DwellyUndisclosed
  30. 30Serge BulaevTech founderUlyanovsk · technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Lifehacker.ru and founder of Creative Content CraftsUndisclosed
  31. 31Yuri MilnerPublic company founderMoscow · Russian entrepreneur and physicistUndisclosed
  32. 32Alexey GubarevTech founderUst-Ilimsk · technology entrepreneur and investorUndisclosed
  33. 33Paul I of RussiaPublic company founderSaint Petersburg · The ninth Emperor of Russia from 1796 to 1801 (1754-1801)Undisclosed
  34. 34Alexander I of RussiaPublic company founderSaint Petersburg · The tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)Undisclosed
  35. 35Vitalik ButerinPublic company founderKolomna · Russian-Canadian computer scientistUndisclosed
  36. 36Sergey GalitskyPublic company founderSochi · Russian businessmanUndisclosed
  37. 37Ratmir TimashevTech founderUfa · US-based IT entrepreneur, founder of Object First, and founder & former CEO of Veeam Software.Undisclosed
  38. 38Nikolay SviyaginPrivate company founderSaint PetersburgUndisclosed
  39. 39Vadim MoshkovichPublic company founderMoscow · Russian businessmanUndisclosed
  40. 40Oleg TinkovPublic company founderPolysayevo · Russian-born Cypriot entrepreneur (born 1967)Undisclosed
  41. 41Alexander PozdniakovTech founderSaint Petersburg · Russian businesspersonUndisclosed
  42. 42Oleg ZherebtsovPublic company founderBryansk · Russian businesspersonUndisclosed
  43. 43Vladimir YevtushenkovPublic company founderKamenshchina · Russian billionaireUndisclosed
  44. 44Ilya SutskeverTech founderNizhny Novgorod · Canadian-Israeli AI researcherUndisclosed
  45. 45Nicholas of JapanPrivate company founderSmolensk · Russian Orthodox priestUndisclosed
  46. 46Vladimir GruzdevPublic company founderKorolyov · Russian politician and businessmanUndisclosed
  47. 47Vasily TatishchevPublic company founderPskov · Russian historian (1686-1750)Undisclosed
  48. 48Serg BellTech founderSaint Petersburg · Russian and Singaporean businessman entrepreneur and investorUndisclosed
  49. 49Grigory BeryozkinPublic company founderMoscow · Russian businessmanUndisclosed
  50. 50VictorPrivate company founderMetropolitan Krasnodar and Kuban (1893–1966)Undisclosed
  51. 51Dmitry GrishinPublic company founderKapustin Yar · businesspersonUndisclosed
  52. 52Dmitry ZavalishinTech founderMoscowUndisclosed
  53. 53Aleksandr ZanadvorovPublic company founderOkhaUndisclosed
  54. 54Dmitry ZiminPublic company founderMoscow · Russian entrepreneur and researcher (1933–2021)Undisclosed
  55. 55Innocent (Figurovsky)Private company founderUndisclosed
  56. 56Viatcheslav Moshe KantorPublic company founderMoscow · Russian businessmanUndisclosed
  57. 57Viktor LavrenkoTech founderIstra · Russian programmerUndisclosed
  58. 58Roman BalabinTech founderMoscow · chemist, spectroscopist, journalistUndisclosed
  59. 59Alexander NesisPublic company founderSaint Petersburg · founder, president and CEO of the ICT GroupUndisclosed
  60. 60NestorPrivate company founderKirovUndisclosed
  61. 61Nikolai AlekseevPrivate company founderVyborg · Catholic priest (1869-1952)Undisclosed
  62. 62Dmitry PumpyanskyPublic company founderUlan-Ude · Russian billionaireUndisclosed
  63. 63Ilya SegalovichTech founderNizhny Novgorod · Russian businessman, founder of Yandex (1964–2013)Undisclosed
  64. 64Said KerimovPublic company founderMoscow · Russian businessmanUndisclosed
  65. 65Ivan TavrinPublic company founderMoscow · Ivan Tavrin is a businessman and CEO of Kismet Capital GroupUndisclosed
  66. 66JuwenaliuszPrivate company founderArzamastsevoUndisclosed
  67. 67Mikhail MilPublic company founderIrkutsk · Soviet helicopter designer (1909-1970)Undisclosed
  68. 68Charles AvnetPublic company founderAmerican businessmanUndisclosed
  69. 69Dmitri AlperovitchPublic company founderMoscow · Computer Security Industry entrepreneur and researcherUndisclosed
  70. 70Marina MogilkoTech founderSaint Petersburg · Podcast host, entrepreneur, angel investor, and YouTube creator based in CaliforniaUndisclosed
  71. 71Anton CherepennikovTech founderMoscow · Russian businesspersonUndisclosed
  72. 72Stanislav SchakirovTech founderVladimirUndisclosed
  73. 73Anton VasetenkovTech founderMoscow · Russian and New Zealand bioengineer and entrepreneurUndisclosed
  74. 74Sabri ÜlkerPublic company founderAlushta · Turkish businessperson (1920–2012)Undisclosed
  75. 75Dmitry BukhmanTech founderVologda · Israeli billionaire businessmanUndisclosed
  76. 76Igor BukhmanTech founderVologda · Israeli entrepreneurUndisclosed
  77. 77Burhan ShahidiPrivate company founderAqsu · Chinese Tatar politician (1894–1989)Undisclosed
  78. 78Sergey OrlovskiyTech founderMagadan · Russian businessman, game designerUndisclosed
  79. 79Konstantin RodzaevskyPrivate company founderBlagoveshchensk · Russian Fascist (1907-1946)Undisclosed
  80. 80Alexander MamutTech founderMoscow · Russian billionaireUndisclosed
  81. 81Alexey PajitnovTech founderMoscow · Russian video game designer (born 1955)Undisclosed
  82. 82Sergey LomakinPublic company founderMoscow · Russian businessmanUndisclosed

Technology Sectors

Artificial Intelligence 4Internet and Software 27Web 1.0 and the Early Internet 7Web 2.0 and Internet Platforms 21Web3 and Blockchain 1

Leading IndustriesBy associated people

information technology10
retail10
e-commerce5
Internet5
software industry5
artificial intelligence4
arms industry4
mining4
financial services4
video game industry4
mechanical engineering3
metal industry3

Companies Headquartered Here

  1. 1Solidcore Resources4
  2. 2Lukoil4
  3. 3Yandex3
  4. 4Sedmoi Kontinent3
  5. 5UTair Aviation2
  6. 6VimpelCom2
  7. 7Rusal2
  8. 8Sistema2
  9. 9VK2
  10. 10Novatek2
  11. 11Kalashnikov Concern2
  12. 12United Aircraft Corporation1
  13. 13Gazprom Neft1
  14. 14Novolipetsk Steel1
  15. 15Polyus1
  16. 16Freedom Holding1
  17. 17Russneft1
  18. 18Kirov Plant1
  19. 19En+ Group1
  20. 20Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant Group1
  21. 21Yakovlev Corporation1
  22. 22Unnamed1
  23. 23Lenta1
  24. 24Motovilikha Plants1
  25. 25Rusagro1
  26. 26T-Bank1
  27. 27RBC Information Systems1
  28. 28Power Machines1
  29. 29S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia1
  30. 30Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant1

Wealth figures are in U.S. dollars and use the latest available estimate for each person. Read the methodology and sources.