ArmInfo. Four of our compatriots have been included in the list of the 125 richest Russian billionaires, according to the Russian edition of Forbes. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Management Company <Elga> Albert Avdolyan is in 47th spot, with $2900 million.
According to the magazine, the Management Company <Elga> oversees coal assets in the Far East, specifically the Yakut Fuel and Energy company. The Elga Coal Complex, managed by Elga Management Company, is developing the largest coking coal deposit in Russia with reserves of over 2.2 billion tons. From 2020 to 2023, 220 billion rubles were invested in the development of Elga Management Company projects. It is noted that Avdolyan's New World Foundation financed the creation of the Future Point educational complex in Irkutsk, with plans for a similar complex in Yakutia. According to the publication, Avdolyan, who was born in Krasnodar, holds citizenship of Russia, Armenia and Malta.
Samvel Karapetyan, President of the Tashir Group of Companies, also ranked 47th with a fortune of $2.9 billion. The Tashir Group employs 45,000 people and operates in real estate, construction, energy, finance, production of building materials, and restaurants. The group's total revenue in 2023 exceeded 225 billion rubles. In 2023, Fora-Bank, a part of the JSCB group, opened 24 new offices (there are now 160 in 18 regions of Russia). Since 2017, Tashir has owned the Izvestia newspaper building in Moscow's center, which it planned to reconstruct, but approvals are progressing slowly. In 2023, a 17,000 sq. m coworking space of the Atmosfera network, a part of Tashir, opened there.. The Tashir group also includes the Electric Networks of Armenia company, serving over 1 million consumers. In 2023, it earned $89 million in EBITDA.
Andrey Andreev (Ohanjanyants) is ranked 66th with a fortune of $ 2,100 million. Ohanjanyants is a private investor who lives in London and was born in 1974. The entrepreneur acquired his capital from selling a stake in the MagicLab holding in November 2019. At that time, the investment company Blackstone purchased Andrey Andreev's stake in MagicLab for $2.25 billion and united the dating services Badoo, Bumble, Chappy and Lumen. The publication reports that the London restaurant L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon (two Michelin stars) served soup "In Andrey's Style", which he cooked on Friday evenings in the restaurant kitchen next to the famous chef Oliver Limousin. Ohandzhanyants is a dual citizen of Russia and Briain.
Another private investor, Artem Khachatryan, has a fortune of $1,6 billion. He is 49 years old and lives in Cyprus. Khachatryan graduated from the Moscow State Mining University in 1997. He started his business with partners Sergey Lomakin (No. 79), Alexander Samonov and Igor Zhuravlev, distributing coffee. With the first two, he founded the Kopeika chain of grocery discounters in 2007. The entrepreneur acquired his main capital from the sale of shares in the Fix Price chain of low-price stores, created jointly with Lomakin in 2007. In December 2023, he sold all his Fix Price shares to Lomakin (34.2% of shares) and Fix Price CEO Dmitry Kirsanov (1%). In March 2021, Fix Price held an IPO, with a capitalization of $8.3 billion. In 2012, Lomakin and Khachatryan became partners in the investment company Quadro Capital Partners, founded and led by former partner of Troika Dialog, managing director of Director of Troika Capital Partners, Giedrius Pukas.
As reported by Forbes, entrepreneurs' wealth is assessed by estimating the market value of their assets, personal property, etc.
