There are four Azerbaijanis in the list of 200 richest Russians

Forbes released its annual ranking of 200 richest businessmen of Russia, which included four persons from Azerbaijan.

The list included only those who earned the bulk of the capital in private, without being civil servants.

The richest Russian Azerbaijani  still remains  the president of the Nikoil company, Vagit  Alekperov, with 13.6 billion. Over a year Alekperov lost 1.2 billion. Then comes Araz Agalarov ( Crocus Group )  with 1.8 billion; his wealth has not changed  during a year. He ranks  the  56^th in the list. The third in this list, is Farhad Ahmedov (Northgas) with 1.4 billion a year; his weath also did not change; he ranks 69th . The fourth rich Azeri , which  ranks 137^th is Telman Ismailov (Group AST ) with a capital of 0.75 billion His  wealth also remained the same.

The richest businessmen of Russia  is Alisher Usmanov , who owns the  companies “Metalloinvest”, Mail.ru Group, “Megafon”, “Euroset.”  His wealth is estimated at $ 18.6 billion for the year, and  increased  over a year by $ 1 billoion.

Michail Friedman, co-owner and chairman of the supervisory board of the consortium "Alfa", retained the second place in the list with  $ 17.6 billion for the year, it increased $ 1.1 billion, Viktor Vekselberg , President of the "Skolkovo " , the owner of "Rusal" , KEN, " Acad " whose  wealth  in 2013 increased by $ 2.1 billion  and totaled $17.2 billion; he ranks  the third  in the list, by shifting from this position Leonid Michelson, chairman of NOVATEK.