Forbes names 200 richest Russians: Armenians are among them

News.am, Armenia

13:57, 16.04.2020
                  

Forbes has rated 200 richest Russians. The 2020 list includes 102 billionaires, two more than last year.

The main owner of Norilsk Nickel Vladimir Potanin is ranked first with $ 19.7 billion, leaving behind the chair and majority shareholder of Novolipetsk ( NLMK) Vladimir Lisin ($ 18.1 billion) and the chair and major shareholder of the Russian gas company Novatek Leonid Mikhelson ($ 17.1 billion).

Armenians are also included in the list: 29th place – Sergey Galitsky ($ 3400 million), 39th place — Samvel Karapetyan ($ 2500 million), 52nd place – Andrey Andreev (Oganjanyants) ($ 1800 million), 103rd place – Ruben Vardanyan ($ 950 million), 113th place  - Albert Avdolyan ($ 800 million), 146th place – Nikolai Sarkisov ($ 700 million), 147th place – Sergey Sarkisov ($ 700 million), 166th place – David Yang ($ 600 million).

The fortune of the 200 richest people in Russia decreased by $ 40 billion, to $ 456 billion.