Rank #488
Rinat Akhmetov
Net worth $7.8B
Steel, coal · Ukraine
- Born
- Sep 21, 1966
- Age
- 59
- Source
- Steel, coal
- Residence
- Donetsk
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Economics, Donetsk National University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Ukraine's richest person, Rinat Akhmetov has vowed to stay in Ukraine and support his country in its fight against Russia.
- Russian forces destroyed plants owned by his mining and steel firm Metinvest and ravaged substations of his power generation firm DTEK. More than 1,400 of his employees have died as a result of the war.
- He says his companies, which still operate, have donated $368 million in goods and have invested around $4 billion in restoring infrastructure destroyed by Russia, building new facilities and modernizing production.
- The son of a coal miner, Akhmetov got his start buying up mining assets during the 1990s privatization era.
- Akhmetov is believed to own a 476-foot yacht, named Luminance, that cost him $500 million. He also owns a French villa and a London apartment.
- Akhmetov grew up in Russian-backed Donetsk but has not been back since Russia's invasion in 2014.