Rank #927
Nikolai Buinov
Net worth $4.6B
Oil, gas · Russia
- Born
- Jul 09, 1967
- Age
- 58
- Source
- Oil, gas
- Residence
- Irkutsk
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Science in Engineering, Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers
Net worth over time
Biography
- Nikolay Buinov is the main shareholder of Irkutsk oil company, the largest independent private oil company in Russia.
- Buinov got his start with a timber company in the early 1990s.
- In 1995, Buinov and his father founded Bodaibo energy company, which supplied fuel and lubricants to gold miners in the north of Irkutsk in Siberia.
- Buinov purchased the license for an oil field in 1997, which was the start of what would become Irkutsk Oil Company.
- Buinov sold a stake in IOC to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in 2008; EBRD later sold part of its stake to Goldman Sachs.
- In 2022 Goldman Sachs sold its stake in IOC to Buinov and his partners.