Portrait of Yuri Karptsov

Rank #2901

Yuri Karptsov

Net worth $1.3B

Retail · Russia

Born
Jan 15, 1964
Age
62
Source
Retail
Residence
Vladivostok
Citizenship
Russia
Marital status
Children
0
Education

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Yuri Karptsov is a cofounder of DNS Retail, Russia's largest chain of consumer electronic products.
  • Along with Dmitry Alexeyev, a fellow billionaire, Karptsov started with a small store in 1998 in Vladivostok, a port city east of Moscow.
  • The pair opened its second location in 2005 and have expanded to more than 2,700 stores and 39,000 employees.
  • The company also has interests in property development and information technology (IT).