The Russian edition of the journal. Forbes. prepared a ranking Russians successfully integrate into the global community. Top '50 Russian, who won the world 'consists of 5 groups, which included the names of the largest investors, businessmen, athletes, scientists and cultural figures.
Category '10 largest Russian investors in global assets ' lives in London, headed by 54- year-old American of Russian origin Leonard Blavatnik. In the ranking of the richest people in the world he occupies 80th place with a fortune of $ 10.1 billion, of which $ 4.7 billion accounted for investments outside Russia.
In second place - the main owner of the holding ' Metalloinvest ' media tycoon Alisher Usmanov. Expansion abroad, the 56- year-old investor, who lives in Moscow, began to buy 14.5% stake in London soccer club Arsenal. However, the name Usmanov is known abroad, not only by investing in Football: Usmanov is the largest shareholder of the investment fund DST Global, which owns 7.6% of the shares of Facebook, and 5% methylene microblogging Twitter. Currently holding talks to buy shares of one of the major global search engines Yahoo. Usmanov at this point is estimated at $ 17.7 billion, which allows the investor to take the 35- th line of the global Forbes list.
According to Forbes about Alexei Mordashov, who took third place in the top ten largest investors, he ' could become the global Russian billionaire, had in 2006. exchanged its stake in Severstal 38.5 % stake in Arcelor, the second largest steel company in the world '. However, the deal fell through. However, the owner of the state at $ 18.5 billion has quite an extensive assets abroad. In the division of Severstal North America includes the U.S. steel producer Rouge Industries, as well as several large companies in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, Mordashov owns a blocking stake ( 25.06 %), one of the largest travel concerns in Europe - TUI.
A longtime partner of Leonard Blavatnik Viktor Vekselberg, whose fortune is estimated at $ 13 billion, $ 2.7 billion of them invested in the development of foreign business. According to Forbes, he owns large stakes in the two Swiss companies, focused on innovation - Oerlikon and Suzler. However, the newspaper notes, the group of companies ' Renova ', whose major shareholder is Vekselberg, has suffered a great loss of these investments: Oerlikon capitalization decreased by more than two times, and shares the concern Suzler down in value 40%.
Vladimir Potanin, who is in a world ranking of the richest people in the 34th line because of the $ 17.8 billion, owns overseas property for $ 1.5 billion. The lion's share of the overseas business, a 50-year hold an investor outside the Norilsk Nickel plant in Finland, Africa and Australia. Besides, Potanin owns 35% stake in U.S. company Power Plug, which is engaged in hydrogen energy.
Sixth place in the top ten largest investors - the Russians, according to Forbes took the owner of ... On the asset accounts for about $ 1.2 billion, representing almost a third of total state Galchev ( $ 3.5 billion).
The banker Andrei Melnichenko in 2004. engaged in mineral fertilizers. By becoming the sole owner (more than 95 % of shares) the largest chemical company in Russia Evrokhim, founder of MDM Bank began buying shares of the German Potash Company KS, and to date owns 9.88% of its shares. Of the $ 8.6 billion available to the investor, the $ 1.2 billion invested abroad.
Roman Abramovich, has received wide recognition abroad after the acquisition of English club Chelsea, owns almost 30 % of the shares of Evraz, which owns major steel mills in the U.S. and Canada, as well as the South African company Highveld Steel and Vanadium. So the ' football ' asset Abramovich, who in April was estimated at $ 658 million, is slightly more than half of all funds ($ 1.1 billion ), owned by Roman Arkadievich outside Russia.
The same amount ( $ 1.1 billion ) of foreign assets, and boasts the largest shareholder in UC Rusal, Oleg Deripaska. In a crisis he had to part with most of its foreign assets, but he remained 17% stake in Austrian construction company Strabag, as well as foreign alumina plants, which previously belonged to the company Glencore in 2007. were exchanged for a share in the joint ' Rusal '.
Closes the ten largest investors with Russian citizenship, or the owner of Russian origin, ' Alfa-Group ' Michael Friedman. As noted by Forbes, in recent years, holding significantly diversify their investments through purchases of foreign telecom companies. Now the owner of the state at $ 15.1 billion ( 43rd line of the global list of billionaires ) 13.22% owned by the largest mobile operator Turkcell Turkey. In addition, TNK - BP, in which the ...
Ten of the most successful businessmen, who started his business abroad from scratch, headed by Igor Oleynikov, earned U.S. $ 2.6 billion in real estate. Currently, 69- year-old native of the Soviet Union lives in Lighthouse Point, Florida in the U.S..
The state of $ 1.6 billion managed to put together who was born in Uzbekistan, the founder of the Lev Leviev Group, Lev Leviev. Leaving his family to Israel at age 15, he began his career as diamond cutter, and after six years in 1977. , Opened his lapidary factory. Soon after the case went to the mountain: the 1980s. Leviev began working with De Beers and to do business in Africa, and in parallel - to buy lapidary factories in Russia. In addition to diamonds, Leviev, who lives in London and is engaged in construction: the company AFI Development builds residential and commercial and office complexes in Russia, Israel and the United States, and one of his latest projects - the shopping center ' Afimoll ' in Moscow City.
A graduate of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute, Valentin Gapontsev almost 25 years studying the laser and optoelectronics at the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and after the restructuring is successfully applied their knowledge in business. His firm ' IRE -Polus ', established in 1990. in the suburban Friazino, focused on the development of high power fiber lasers. Now owned by IPG Photonics Gapontsevu owns about 80% of the world market of fiber lasers, which have been successfully used in telecommunications, metal processing and other areas. 72- year-old Sam Gapontsev - winner of the state of $ 1.1 billion.
In fourth place in the list of the ten entrepreneurs who built businesses from scratch outside of Russia, is Andrei Andreev ( Ogandzhanyants ). The creator of online dating Badoo, 37- year-old Andreev, lives in London. His first internet- project - a web analytics service SpyLog - he created in 1999 and three years later launched a system of placing contextual advertising on the Internet ' Runner ', 80 % of its shares in 2003. were purchased by holding company ... Together with ... ru $ 18 million, has launched a network of acquaintances Badoo, which is now estimated at around $ 1 billion.
Fifth place the top-10 business is divided among the graduates of the Moscow Physical -Technical Institute, Ilya Zubarev, and Serguei Beloussov. In the early 1990s. they registered a company in Korea for assembly of consumer electronics Rolsen Electronics, the main market which are Russia and the CIS. The money received from sale of equipment, the partners created a few startups in software development, and in 2010. co-founded investment fund Runa Capital.
Gregory Shenkman and Alec Miloslavsky, a couple owning a group of companies Exigen, as the two share the fortune of $ 700 million and sixth place in the top 10 successful businessman according to Forbes. Their Exigen Series deals with outsourcing programming in Latvia, Russia and China, as an investment company with Exigen Capital Universal Musik created Equa Trax, developing program for calculating royalties for artists.
At $ 200 million to his brother, 45 -year-old Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronova, who made rather big fortune on Internet technologies. Fellow at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, and Timasheff\u2028Barons started the business with the supply of computer components from the U.S. to Russia, then engaged in developing and selling software. Selling their created in 1997. Aelita Software company for $ 115 million in 2005. they have become venture capitalists, founding the Fund ABRT. In the fund assets - software developer Acronis, a developer of games for social networks Drimmi, an online store KupiVIP and other projects.
A native of Yerevan, and a graduate of the Moscow Physical -Technical Institute, David Yang in 1989. founded a software company Bit Software, which acquired the world-famous brand ABBYY. The most popular products of the system were ABBYY FineReader OCR and ABBYY Lingvo dictionary. In addition to his software business, the owner of the state of $ 200 million, Jan opened several restaurants in Moscow and began to promote the restaurant business management system iiko.
On the penultimate spot dozens of businessmen who conquered the West, located Alexander Galitsky, in 1993. successfully sold 10% of their IT-companies ' Elvis ' U.S. computer giant Sun Microsystems. With this money he started a venture investment, creating several funds that invest money in start-ups programmers. Last winter, his fund Almaz Capital Partners has sold 20% of the Skype company Qik, which develops software for mobile video. According to Forbes, the company's portfolio as a minority ' Yandex ', and software developer Parallels.
Closes the top-10 business owner in the state $ 100 million Max Levchin, in 1998. founded the company Fieldlink, later renamed the PayPal Inc. That's called the most successful project of the company - online payment service, which became one of the main ways of paying for goods in the Global Internet. After selling the company, Levchin started a new project - photo-sharing service in social networks Slide, which last year was bought by Google for $ 182 million. After that, Levchin became vice -president of Google's development, but after the close of the project resigned Slide.
In order to make a rating of Russian athletes, most of all shocked the minds of foreigners, Forbes relied not only on the assessment of their income, but also on the Google data about the frequency of requests for the names of Russian athletes in ten foreign countries.
As it turned out, tennis player Maria Sharapova topped the rating of '10 most highly paid and famous Russian athletes ' popularity ahead of even the world star Leonel Messi. In addition, the popularity rating Sharapova was four times higher than that of a hockey player Alexander Ovechkin, who took second place the list of top 10. The newspaper reminds that Sharapova - the only Russian star, which is present in the world ranking of celebrities Forbes ( 80th place ). Income 24 -year-old tennis players over the last year is estimated at $ 24.8 million.
In second place, as already stated, the famous hockey player Alexander Ovechkin, c 2005. acting for the club in the NHL Washington Capitals. In 2008,. He signed with his club of 13-year contract worth $ 124 million, which has become the most expensive in the history of hockey.
The third took place in the ranking of the best young player in the history of the Russian national basketball championships - Andrei Kirilenko, who played his first match in the St. Petersburg ' Spartacus ' even before he turned 16 years old. The first Russian selected in the first round of the NBA Draft NBA ( Club Utah Jazz), in 2001. He began to advocate for the American team, and two years later became its leader. In 2004 Kirilenko signed a six-year contract for $ 86 million, and in the last year of his action came in the top ten highest paid players in the NBA.
Football player Andrei Arshavin, who played 19 years in his first match for the main part of the St. Petersburg 'Zenith', has received international recognition after winning his team in the UEFA Cup, becoming the best player of the finals, as well as performances of team Russia at the European Championships in 2008. In winter 2009,. He moved from the 'Zenith ' in London's Arsenal, and two years later was on the substitutes' bench players. In the last year submitted its brand Arshavin Arshavin, who produced a children's clothing and textiles. Income 30 -year-old athlete Forbes estimated at $ 8,000,000.
The first five of the top 10 closes the hockey star Evgeni Malkin, who became famous after moving overseas, and changing the Magnitogorsk ... In the first season of 2006. in the NHL, he was the best rookie, but in season 2008/2009 Pittsburgh Penguins, Malkin led and the best Canadian hockey player Sidney Crosby won the Stanley Cup.
In sixth place - another hockey player, 28 -year-old Ilya Kovalchuk, for eight seasons, played for Atlanta Thrashers, and recognized as one of the best strikers in the league, and in 2010. signed a 15- year contract with the New Jersey Devils for $ 100 million. It was his puck led the Russian team to the championship in 2008.
Pavel Datsyuk has become famous for playing one of the strongest clubs in the NHL Detroit Red Wings. The team he has twice won the trophy of the league - the Stanley Cup. Datsyuk - four-time winner of Lady Byng Trophy, Awards, awarded annually to the player the NHL, demonstrating the model of open competition, and the gentleman's behavior, coupled with the high skill game.
For the trio of famous hockey players should be no less famous fighter. The eighth line in the ranking of '10 most highly paid and famous Russian athletes ' went to the master of sports of international class in judo and sambo Fedor Emelianenko, who since 2000. shows the class into mixed martial arts. By 2007. Emelianenko became a quadruple world champion in PRIDE version. He is now co-owner of M1 Global ( Organization fights in Mixed Martial Arts ) on equal footing with his manager Vadim Finkelstein and son of ex- governor of St. Petersburg, Sergei Matvienko. And in addition to sports fees and earn revenue from advertising.
Ninth place again for a hockey player. Ilya Bryzgalov in 2000. was named the best rookie hockey championship in Russia, and in 2001. started to play for a club of NHL Anaheim Ducks. Having won in 2007. team won the Stanley Cup, he moved to the Phoenix Coyotes, where the four seasons was the main goalkeeper. In 2011, Mr.. athlete was traded to the club Philadelphia Flyers, which signed a nine-year contract for $ 51 million.
Closes the ten most amazing athletes, another Russian woman, athlete, and just a beautiful girl Vera Zvonareva. The whole world knew about it in 2003. When 18 -year-old Russian has reached the quarterfinals of the French Open. A year later she won the U.S. Open in mixed doubles, and in 2006. - U.S. Open in the women's doubles and Wimbledon in mixed doubles. As noted by Forbes, Zvonareva - one of the most active tennis playing Russian. Since the beginning of a career, she earned as a prize of almost $ 12 million, and in 2010. reached the second position in women's tennis classification and earned $ 3.2 million.
In order to determine the rating of scientific leaders, journalists, Forbes had to abandon the usual yardstick - money. For comparison, advances in physics and rich Andrey Geim of the achievements of mathematics and disinterested analyst Gregory Perelman had to rely on quoting the name and works of the scientist, as well as the level of the research center where he works. In the ranking were three mathematics, three physics (including astrophysics, one ), and a single chemist.
'10 The rankings of the world 's most famous scientists of Russian origin, ' led by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, in 2010. received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of sverhtehnologichny material - graphene. Geim and Novoselov were able to obtain a single-layer graphite, the very possibility of the existence of which was questioned, with adhesive tape and a simple pencil. To date, the British officers at Manchester University, Geim and Novoselov - the most cited scientists, not only nationally but also globally.
On the second top- 10 - a mathematician born in Khimki Maxim Kontsevich in 1997. Award-winning Poincare in 1998. - Fields Prize, and in 2008. - Awards Kraforda. Back in 1990. The original way of conjecture theoretical physicist Edward Witten of relevance to quantum gravity, he immediately got a job researcher at the Institute of the Max Planck. In the future, Kontsevich, who now works at the Paris Institute for Advanced Research, \u2028got a lot of results that are important not only for mathematicians, \u2028but also for physicists, developing the theory of superstrings.
The third line of the rating became an astrophysicist at the University of Chicago's Andrey Kravtsov, who left Russia in 1995. By studying the principles of formation of galaxies in the early stages of evolution, he has shown that young galaxies are much less efficient form a star, what it can do today's galaxies, the later. In addition, he offered an explanation of the fact that most of the galaxies that we see now, the spiral, whereas previous simulations have demonstrated that they have to be elliptical.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S.\u2028, Russian Evgeny Kunin is one of the most quoted biologist of the world. His research focuses on biological evolution, and methods of research related to computational biology - computer analysis of large data sets, especially the genomes of. Kunin is a contributor to articles that presented results of the project ' Human Genome '. In addition, he is the author of the famous book ' The logic of chance: the nature and occurrence of biological evolution '.
Perched on a nearby line and another biologist, originally from Russia - Ruslan Medzhitov. In the 1990s,. He moved to the United States, to cooperate with the famous Yale immunologist Charles Janeway. In 1997,. Janeway and Medzhitov have made a great discovery, found in mammalian homolog of the protein Toll, which is activated immune response in Drosophila fungal infection. For the study of these proteins are important for innate immunity in mammals, and two colleagues in 2011 Medzhitova. received the Nobel Prize.
Sixth place went to the creator of the algorithm, prediction of crystal structure and chemical formula called Russian style abbreviation USPEX, 36- year-old Artem Oganov. A graduate of Moscow State University and a professor, a member of the American University, Stony Brook, it is theoretically predicted crystal structure of magnesium silicate at depths greater than 2,500 km under the ground, explaining, thus, the seismic anomaly, which has been known for a long time, but could find no reasonable explanation.
Professor of physics from Tomsk Sergei Odintsov famous several hundred scientific papers on the theory of gravity, mathematical physics and cosmology. His most cited work, written in collaboration with a Japanese physicist Nodzhiroy, is dedicated to the dark energy, of which 70% of the Universe. The discovery of this phenomenon in the current year, it was noted by the Nobel Committee. Employee Catalan Institute for Advanced Studies in Spain, Odintsov also known in the scientific world as a co-author of a monograph on the zeta-function.
The reclusive mathematician from St. Petersburg, Grigory Perelman, who gained wide fame outside the academic world because of its original relation to the regalia and the money was in eighth place ranking '10 world's most famous scientists of Russian origin '. In 2002 - 2003,. He has published a decision ' millennium problem ' - the Poincare conjecture, which many experts believed unprovable. However, his name was thundered much later, when Perelman initially refused to publish his proof in a scientific journal, then refused to award the Fields and the Millennium Prize $ 1 million, and finally ceasing communication with journalists, retired from his institute.
The last Russian winner of the prestigious mathematical award Fields - Stanislav Smirnov, received it last year for his achievements in statistical physics. A graduate of 239 st St. Petersburg mathematical school and two-time winner of the World Mathematical Olympiad is now a professor at the University of Geneva. Known for his achievements in mathematical percolation theory, which describes the appearance of infinite connected structures.
The top ten most-most scientists, Professor, University of London closes Gleb Sukhorukov, who left Russia in 1990. The famous chemist engaged in nanotechnology - developing a polymer capsules with desired properties, which can be used for targeted delivery of drugs into the body. Last year, he was a contender for ' Megagrant ' from the Ministry of Education, however, despite the track record and a citation index, a grant not received.
Heading '10 world's most famous representatives of Russian Art 'is almost no members of the Russian star rating, state the authors of the rating. The reason is that the Russian show business is focused exclusively on the domestic market, while in Russia the world perceive the country's classical arts and literature. Therefore, no Pugacheva, Kirkorov no, no Leps in this list will not, but fans of the talent, Yuri Bashmet and the readers of Boris Akunin has something to rejoice.
In the first place in the top ten most significant for the entire world of culture was Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko. The winner of ' most expensive ' operatic soprano, according to Forbes, last year earned $ 3.75 million, and the best CDs of her recordings sold in Germany. However, the main income of a native of Krasnodar, Netrebko - royalties for performances (starting from $ 50 thousand. ), And advertising contracts with Chopard and Schwarzkopf.
Famous in the 1990s. memorable commercials for TV music video director Timur Bekmambetov courted international fame in the middle of the last decade, removing the full-length movies ' Night Watch ' and ' Day Watch '. After moving to Hollywood in 2008, Bekmambetov. directed the movie ' Wanted ', brought together at the box office of more than $ 175 million, and then worked as a co-producer on the set of pictures ' Abraham Lincoln. Vampire Hunter 'and' Phantom '.
Three leaders closes musician Valery Gergiev, has received his first award in his student years, when he won the All-Union Conducting Competition. Last year, he became the first Russian musician received the prestigious American prize Nelson Rockefeller, and this month opened with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky theater season in New York's Carnegie Hall.
Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who turned out in fourth place in the top 10 challenges for Anna Netrebko's right to be the highest paid actor of Russian opera. His performance usually costs about $ 70 thousand. , Experts say. Maybe that's why Hvorostovsky performs less often in the opera, and more often gives recitals at prestigious venues of the world. In addition, the singer writes actively drives, and even experimented with pop music.
Actress of the St. Petersburg Theatre of Europe Xenia Rappoport famous abroad for starring in a film by Giuseppe Tornatore ' The Stranger ' (La Sconosciuta). In 2007,. actress received for this work cinematic premium Italian David di Donatello. In 2009,. Rapoport led the opening ceremony of the Venice Film Festival, and last year starred in four foreign and domestic scenes as many.
Another famous musician - Yuri Bashmet - finished sixth in the ranking of '10 world's most famous representatives of Russian Art '. As recalled by Forbes, as a violist Bashmet has collaborated with the most outstanding conductors of the planet, and after, and he became a successful conductor. In 2008,. his ensemble ...
Violinist Gidon Kremer, who emigrated to Austria in 1997. , Has created an ensemble of ' Kremerata Baltica ', which combines the best young musicians from the Baltic countries. Kremer and the ensemble perform at major festivals and giving concerts in the most prestigious stages around the world.
Eighth place for dozens of the most iconic cultural figures around the world come from Russia took the translator yaponist Grigory Chkhartishvili, who became famous under the pen name Boris Akunin. The author of the prose epic detective Erast Fandorin printed copies of two million copies a year, until the crisis broke, dropping the total circulation of his books and 1.5 million. To date, Chkhartishvili kept in the top ten most published authors of Russian.
Young ballerina Diana Vishneva became known to the world in 1994. When she received one of the major ballet award - Prix de Lausanne. To date, American Ballet Theatre prima ballerina in New York, Vishneva is the highest paid dancer and principal dancer of the world today. In 2009,. her project ...
Russian film director Fyodor Bondarchuk closes the top 10 famous foreign artists and the top 50 Russians, who had great success all over the world. The son of the famous Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk in 1968. received the Oscar for the epic ' War and Peace ', has never worked as a studio on the west, and yet became famous abroad for his Russian works. Western acquired the rights to distributors ' company of the Ninth ' Brondarchuka within a few years after its premiere in 2005. According to Forbes, has hundreds of applications received for the purchase of rights for foreign rolled his film ' Stalingrad ', which will be released in theaters in 2012.
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