Rank #88
Leonid Mikhelson & family
Net worth $28.3B
Gas, chemicals · Russia
- Born
- Aug 11, 1955
- Age
- 70
- Source
- Gas, chemicals
- Residence
- Moscow
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Science in Engineering, Kuybyshev Engineering and Construction Institute
Net worth over time
Biography
- Leonid Mikhelson is the founder and chairman of natural gas producer Novatek.
- In 2017 he bought a 17% stake in petrochemical company Sibur from Kirill Shamalov, Putin's reported former son-in-law, increasing his stake to 48%; he now holds just over 30%.
- In 2021 Sibur merged with TAIF Group, with extensive assets in the Republic of Tatarstan; among TAIF's owners are the sons of Tatarstan's first president.
- Mikhelson spent more than $470 million turning a power plant across from the Kremlin into a spectacular art space GES-2, which opened in late 2021.
- An avid art collector, Mikhelson has sponsored museum exhibits in Russia and the U.S through a fund named after his daughter.
- Mikhelson began his career as a foreman for a construction company building a gas pipeline in Russia's Tyumen region.
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