The richest Swiss. The modest charm of the Swiss bourgeoisie in a village for billionaires - previously the traveler was looking for unknown countries, but now he is looking for wifi The richest people in Switzerland
Switzerland is now home to 129 people with a net worth of more than $1 billion, up from 86 in 2014, according to the economic journal Bilanz, which annually compiles a list of the richest residents of the Alpine republic.
Where exactly do billionaires prefer to live? First of all, these are the Cantons of Geneva - 25 people live there, and Zurich - 19 people, then the Canton of Vaud, which has 14 billionaires. But not everyone loves big cities, for example, some very wealthy people prefer the picturesque landscapes of the Alps in the Cantons of Bern and Grisons - each of them is home to 10 billionaires. When compiling these statistics, it was taken into account that dollar billionaires who are members of the same family may have their place of residence in different cantons of the Alpine Republic.
As for the richest family in Switzerland, it is still the Kamprad family, which owns the Ikea furniture empire. Ingvar Kamprad, the head of the family and founder of Ikea, who lived for a long time in Switzerland, has now returned to Sweden, and his three sons, Swiss citizens, live in the Canton of Vaud. The Kamprad family's fortune is estimated at 42.5 billion francs.
One of Europe's richest villages has refused to accept any asylum seekers and instead voted to pay a fine of almost $300,000.
Fear of possible sexual attacks on women and children, as well as disruption to peaceful life, led the ultra-rich high-altitude resort of Oberwil-Lily in Switzerland to vote against accepting just 10 migrants during a referendum. The picturesque village's 2,200 residents, 300 of whom are millionaires, have decided to flex their financial muscles to reject the central government's quota.
One of the richest villages in Europe, Oberwil-Lili refuses to accept any asylum seekers. The Swiss government has ordered it to accept 10 migrants as part of a promise to take in a total of 50,000 people, at least 3,000 of whom come from Syria.
But 2,200 wealthy residents of Oberville-Lily, 300 of whom are millionaires, held a referendum and voted against the government's quota, opting instead to pay a fine of almost $300,000.
Fears of possible sexual attacks on women and children, as well as disruption to peaceful ways of life, led the ultra-rich high-altitude resort of Oberwil-Lily in Switzerland to say no to the government's plans during a May 1 referendum.
Surrounded by lush green pastures and with stunning views of the snow-capped Alps, the twin villages of Oberwil and Lily belong on a chocolate box.
Residents, who include a huge number of millionaires per capita, say they want to protect their tranquil way of life and don't want any new arrivals to spoil the quiet environment.
Some of Oberville-Lili's wealthiest residents said they were willing to personally help pay the fine imposed by the Swiss government - about $150 per person. They will have to pay the same fine next year if they do not meet the quota.
But this decision polarized local society, dividing opinions almost equally. While most residents supported the decision, others were “confused” by it. This mother of two says she was embarrassed by 'racism'.
The village is lined with Alpine-style chalets and modern glass-enclosed houses, making it one of the most attractive - and expensive - places to live in Switzerland. The fine will be paid from a fund of $7 million, which is generated from local taxes.
The roads here are impeccably clean, the gardens are immaculate and, despite the distance of 16 kilometers from the country's largest city Zurich, there is almost no traffic. Residents, many of whom are retirees, say they don't want their pensions to be ruined by migrants.
That is why the village will have to pay a fine to the Swiss government.
Oberwil-Lili mayor Andreas Glarner, 54, said the reason for the vote was fear.
He added: “Yes, refugees from Syria should be helped, and they would be better served in camps closer to their homes. The money paid may be used to help them, but if we provide them with housing here, we will be sending the wrong message. Others will also risk their lives crossing the ocean and paying smugglers.”
52% of voters were against accepting refugees. The mayor says Oberville-Lili is a quiet village, not equipped to accommodate 10 migrants. “It was a small victory for those of us who don’t want refugees, because Oberville-Lily is not a place for them.”
The population of Switzerland is 8 million people.
The number of asylum requests has been decreasing recently.
Switzerland accepts 50 thousand asylum seekers. All of them are divided between 26 cantons, each locality is allocated a quota of refugees depending on the population.
#10 – Magdalena Martullo-Blocker ($3.8 billion)
Magdalena Martullo-Blocker is currently the CEO of Ems-Chemie, a Swiss company involved in the production of chemicals and polymer products. In 2014, Ems-Chemie's annual sales were approximately 1.972 million Swiss francs ($2 billion). In 2015, Martullo-Blocker entered politics and was elected national councilor (photo-gazettereview.com).
#9 – Ivan Glasenberg ($3.8 billion)
Ivan Glasenberg only became a Swiss citizen in 2011, but he is still considered one of the richest citizens. In 1984 he joined Glencore, an influential mining company headquartered in Switzerland. By 2002, he was appointed its chief executive officer. His net income has been steadily declining over time as the economic climate has changed, but he still has a pretty fat wallet.
#8 – Rachel Blocker ($3.9 billion)
Currently, Rachel and Magdalena Blocker, her sister, have a large share in the Ems-Chemie company. However, Rachel doesn't actually work there. She runs her father's other company, Robinvest. Robinvest is an investment company, and although it is not as successful as Ems-Chemie, it still serves as an excellent additional source of income.
#7 – Dona Bertarelli ($3.9 billion)
Dona Bertarelli is not like most other entrepreneurs. Her passion is sailing, which she is quite good at. In 2010, Bertarelli and her team won the Bol d'Or Mirabaud, becoming the first woman to win the race. Most of her wealth comes from inheritance. Serono, her family's business, was sold for more than $9 billion to Merck KGaA in 2007.
#6 – Thomas Schmidheiny ($5.1 billion)
Thomas Schmidheiny owns vineyards all over the world, but calls Klosters his home. In 1984, he inherited his father's company Holcim, which is still one of the world's leading cement companies. Schmidheiny stepped down in 2003 but still owns approximately 12% of the highly successful international company.
#5 – Hansjörg Wyss ($5.9 billion)
Hansjörg Wyss graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich with a Master of Science degree. Later he went to study at Harvard University and received an MBA degree. Wyss worked in a variety of different jobs in the textile and iron and steel industries after graduating, and eventually met with one of the founders of Synthes, a Swiss medical device manufacturer. By 1997, Wyss founded Syntheses USA. The company was highly successful, and he stepped down as its chairman when Johnson & Johnson acquired the company for $21.3 billion in 2012.
#4 – Isolde and Will Liebherr($6.1 billion)
Isolde and Will Liebherr are brother and sister. Together they run the equipment manufacturing company Liebherr Group. The couple has continued the business their father started, and they say they intend to pass the company on to their children in the future. Today the Liebherr Group employs more than 40,000 people.
#3 – Gianluigi Aponte($8.2 billion)
The businessman began his career as a ferry captain, and while working, he met his wife Rafaela. In 1970 they founded the Mediterranean Shipping Company. The business started with one ship that transported goods between Europe and Africa. Today, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has become almost a global superpower in terms of container shipping. In the late 1980s, MSC branched out to become MSC Cruise, a successful cruise line. In 2014, Aponte stepped down as CEO of MSC, handing over control of the company to his son Diego.
#2 – Marguerite Louis-Dreyfus ($8.2 billion)
Born in Leningrad in the USSR in the 60s. In 1988, she met and married Robert Louis-Dreyfus, an influential French businessman who was chairman of the Louis Dreyfus Group, a company involved in the energy, agriculture and shipbuilding industries. In 2009, Robert died after a long battle with leukemia, resulting in Margarita inheriting the business.
#1 – Ernesto Bertarelli– ($8.6 billion)
Ernesto Bertarelli studied business abroad, receiving a degree from Babson College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. In 1996, he took over control of Serono, his family's pharmaceutical company, significantly improving the business. Bertarelli is an avid philanthropist.
Wooden bridges that have stood for 700 years, the unguarded Government House, the saddest monument in the world and houses whose beams are soaked in bull's blood or donkey urine - these are impressions of Lucerne, a kind of Catholic stronghold in generally Protestant Switzerland. But not the only ones. The Eurotour to “Magnificent Switzerland”, organized by the “Master of Travel” company, is today remembered as a bright fairy tale...
For the New Year - to the Government House!
To be honest, the article was planned to begin with the phrase “If you are bored, go to the Government House before the New Year: it will become more fun.” But then bad associations arose. Although in Lucerne this message is pure truth. Here at the Government House, New Year's "aperitifs" are held annually - any person who for some reason was left alone on the eve of the New Year can come here and find company. Absolutely free, by the way.
The government building seems to be doing just fine without any metal detectors, security posts or other mandatory security measures. And nothing - it’s been standing for more than a hundred years. Our tourist group freely entered the hall - there were no obstacles from the police. If only because we didn’t find a single policeman there.
Canton, by the way, is preparing for a referendum. It will be decided what the new university, which is planned to be built in the city, will be like. There is a model of the university building in the Government House - any local resident can come in and express their opinion about it.
The saddest monument in the world
The famous monument of Lucerne is the "Dying Lion". It was erected in honor of the Swiss who guarded the French king and died during the storming of the Tuileries Palace on August 10, 1792. “To the Swiss, faithful and brave,” says the inscription on it. “This is the saddest and most touching stone statue in the world,” Mark Twain wrote about this monument.
Guardsmen from the canton of Lucerne were gladly hired by both the French kings and the Vatican to guard the Pope. The little casket opens simply: Lucerne, unlike its neighbors, where the reformers led by Calvin are oh so well remembered, remains largely a Catholic canton. 72% of local residents consider themselves to belong to the Roman Church. The penetration of other religions is frowned upon here.
Another attraction is the Kapellbrücke bridge over the Reuss River. A wooden structure more than 200 meters long was built in 1365! And it has survived safely almost to this day. In 1993, the bridge was badly damaged by fire: it is said that a young man threw a cigarette butt from the bridge, which hit a boat. A significant part of the bridge burned down, but was restored later. But the stone Wasserturm tower, which is located in the middle of the bridge, was not damaged. Previously, it was both a prison and a torture chamber. Now it houses a souvenir shop.
From the Reuss embankment, the Chateau Gutsch Hotel, located on a high hill on the outskirts of Lucerne, looks magnificent. They say that when it was put up for sale for $3 million, Michael Jackson was ready to pay $25 million at once. However, he was refused: they say, historical monuments are not sold to foreigners. But now it belongs to the “native Swiss” Alexander Lebedev. That very same deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
Lucerne's ancient buildings in the Old Town sport red and yellow beams. Beauty actually has something to do with it, but it’s not the main thing. It turns out that in the Middle Ages, the beams of houses were impregnated with an antiseptic - after all, epidemics were raging in Europe. And the best antiseptics were then considered to be ox blood and donkey urine. Now it’s clear where the color comes from?
In Switzerland there are German guest workers...
By the way, while crossing the Reuss Bridge, we saw a real Swiss beggar. Can you imagine a beggar in this well-fed and rich country? “Oh, poor thing...” one of the female members of the tour group started out of habit. However, to our surprise, our guide immediately cut short the “sympathizers”: “There’s no need to feel sorry for him - it’s his choice! He has the opportunity to call the social service, and he will be provided with housing, as well as unemployment benefits - about 3 thousand francs. And I’ve been seeing this beggar here for a good 20 years.” Having heard about the size of unemployment benefits (remember, the Swiss franc is more expensive than the US dollar), many immediately stopped feeling sorry for the Swiss beggars and began to envy them.
The conversation turned to guest workers. “Well, yes, they come to work with us from Germany, and from France, and from Italy. But no one feels any complaints, much less displeasure, towards them - people came to our country to work for us,” said former Minsk resident and now Swiss citizen Clara. By the way, according to her, street cleaning is carried out exclusively by local residents. "How else? Who loves their homeland more than they? Yes, and street cleaning is the safety of citizens. And it’s not safe to trust it to someone else,” the guide explained.
In Old Lucerne, almost any building has a five-hundred-year (or even more) history. And they were preserved almost in their original form. Of course, they are being restored, but still...
About hobbies, salaries and cows
On the road from Lucerne to Zurich, we ask Clara about life in Switzerland. “The main thing is that every Swiss should have a hobby. If you don’t indicate a hobby in the employer’s application form, they simply won’t hire you: they will think that you are a boring person, uninterested in anything. For example, I sing in a church choir. Every fifth Swiss takes part in amateur performances. It’s hard to imagine a village without its own folk ensemble,” says Klara.
The topic of holidays was also touched upon. So, it turns out that the most important holiday in Switzerland is the herding of cows to the Alpine meadows. On this occasion, cows are washed with shampoo (!), their eyelashes are painted with mascara (!!) and their tails are curled (!!!). Well, then, naturally, they send us to the mountains - until autumn. Together with them, a staff of shepherds, milkmen and cheesemakers goes to the mountains. A bell is hung on each cow, and the heaviest one is on the record holder for milk yield. It was hard to lift your head from the grass. If anyone is interested, the average milk yield from a cow in Switzerland is 30 liters of milk per day. The main record-breaking cow produces 60 liters of milk.
Of course, we talked about salaries and income. If unemployment benefits are about 3 thousand francs, then the minimum wage is 3800. The average worker receives about 5800 francs. Well, when several Rostov teachers traveling with us found out how much teachers in Switzerland earn, they clutched their hearts: from 8 to 12 thousand francs! With a 20 hour work week.
"What do you want? Our professions of policeman and teacher are the most respected,” Clara was surprised. Eh, us too. But there is not always an equal sign between “the most respected” and “well paid”...
Russian trace in the city of millionaires
And here is Zurich. The name of which sounds almost synonymous with the word “money”. If 1,600 millionaires live in Geneva, then in Zurich their number is innumerable. Their villas occupy entire blocks on the Gold and Silver coasts of Lake Zurich.
As in other Swiss cities that we have already visited, the Old Town is perfectly preserved. Among the attractions, we note the women's abbey of Fraumunster with stained glass windows by Marc Chagall - a native of Vitebsk painted 50 sq.m. in 1970.
By the way, Fraumünster has a rich history. There was once a girls' school here, where girls were prepared for high society. Then the Reformation broke out, and all kinds of goods, including salt, were stored on the territory of Fraumünster. Later, at the end of the 19th century, the abbey became stables for Napoleon's army. Immediately after the French, the Russian army came and quartered here for six months. They say that a few months after the army left, a baby boom broke out in Zurich. Of course, the army corps numbered 20 thousand people, while the population of Zurich was only 21 thousand. So the Slavs are not completely strangers here...
The Grossmünster, the largest cathedral in Zurich, is also impressive. St. Peter's Church is notable for the largest clock in the world (the minute hand weighs 92 kg, and the diameter of the clock mechanism is 8.6 m).
However, Zurich is also famous for its more modern history. It was in Zurich that Churchill delivered his famous speech on September 19, 1946 about the need to create a “United States of Europe.” This event is immortalized by a memorial plaque embedded directly into the sidewalk. Thirty years before Churchill, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin made his mark in Zurich. However, this is said modestly - he stayed here for more than a year, as the sign on the building reminds: “Lenin, the Fuhrer of the Russian Revolution, lived here from February 21, 1916 to April 2, 1917.” And in the local library he wrote his famous work “Imperialism as the highest degree of capitalism.”
In the coffee shop that Vladimir Ilyich loved to go to, you can still drink coffee today. Which we did with pleasure.
Shopping mile
It is in Zurich that the still active Masonic lodge Alpina (the main one in Switzerland) is located, as well as the headquarters of the international football and hockey federations FIFA and IIHF.
The most famous street in Zurich is the Station Street, also called the “Shopping Mile”. You can buy anything. We also took a ride on the local tram, which runs through the entire “Shopping Mile” and goes further, only Zurich residents know where. The tram in Switzerland is the main form of public transport. Well, how did they live to live like this: at a public stop there is an electronic board that indicates how many minutes later the nearest trams and their numbers will arrive, and on the tram itself the same electronic board tells you how many minutes it will take you to get to this or that stop. And the main thing is that the schedule does not fail. Everything - with Swiss precision!
By the way, the local station is an attraction in itself: it is the largest in the world.
Every day, 1,650 trains depart from 54 platforms. On the top floor there is a huge hall with an area of 7 thousand square meters, where the world's leading chess players hold simultaneous games with ordinary Swiss people, opera performances are staged, and the country's largest Christmas tree, decorated with Swarovski, is erected for the New Year.
It is impossible not to mention the local university. After all, Rosa Luxemburg, Roentgen, and Einstein studied there. Among its graduates are 27 Nobel laureates!
Waterfall. Waterfall!
Zurich is our penultimate “Swiss” stop. After the man-made wonders, we went to admire the natural wonder - the Rhine Falls. But it is impossible to describe it in words, and in the age of digital photography, it is completely sinful. Extraordinary beauty, enormous inner power, an element, next to which you feel uneasy...
By the way, you have to pay to see the waterfall. If memory serves, then 3 francs. For some reason, Ostap Bender immediately came to mind with his idea of taking money for the Failure in Pyatigorsk (“So that it does not fail too much!”).
This was our last stop in Switzerland - the next route lay in Nuremberg. We stopped for the night in a small but cozy hotel in Germany. We went to the cafe. “It’s almost communism here!” - the first reaction after looking at the menu. Yes, compared to Swiss prices, everything was really very cheap. The magnificent country of Switzerland. If you have a Swiss salary.
Well, about Nuremberg, its proud status as the unrecognized capital of a non-existent country, separatism and red beer - in the next, final part of our report on the European tour.
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Twelve immigrants from the USSR were on the list of the richest people in Switzerland December 3rd, 2013
The richest people in Switzerland, ranked annually by the economic magazine Bilan, are still not poor. Among the 300 millionaires and billionaires included in the list, this time there were twelve people from the former USSR.
Three days ago, the traditional annual issue of the Swiss economic magazine “Bilan” was published, dedicated to assessing the well-being of the richest people in Switzerland - a kind of barometer of the prosperity of the small Alpine country.
Let me remind you that the conditions for attracting the attention of the economic magazine “Bilan” and getting into the list of the 300 richest people in Switzerland are simple. " You must have a net worth of at least 100 million francs and be Swiss or permanently reside in the country (!!!. Author)" .
So, immigrants from Russia and the countries of the former USSR who are on the list of the 300 richest people in Switzerland:
Vekselberg
1 place. Victor Vekselberg (according to the migration service, a resident of the canton of Zug) - a constant participant in the Bilan rating and our list, again found himself in the top ten (7th place in the overall rating). True, this time his fortune is estimated at 12-13 billion francs, which is approximately 2 billion less than last year.
According to an economic magazine, the 56-year-old businessman's Swiss investments are finally starting to bring satisfaction to their owner. This is especially true for the Swiss group OC Oerlikon, active in the market of polymers, mechanical engineering and equipment for solar panels, which was not in the best shape three years ago. Since then, its market value has only increased, and now 48% of its shares represent the largest investment in the billionaire's portfolio.Second in importance after OC Oerlikon is a stake (100% participation) in the Russian energy company IES-Holding, the largest non-public company in Russia by revenue in 2009, according to Forbes. Participation in other companies, in particular in the Russian-American joint venture Renova, has “great potential,” as the Russian investor, President of the Skolkovo innovation center, likes to say.
Timchenko
2nd place. For Geneva resident Gennady Timchenko 2013 was a good year - not only because his fortune increased by one billion. His contribution to joint French-Russian projects was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honor.
The 61-year-old businessman of Russian origin with a Finnish passport, who has been living in Geneva for 12 years, founded the oil trading company Gunvor together with the Swede Torbjorn Tornqvist. Each partner owns 44% of the company's shares, the remaining 12% is distributed among employees.
A big fan of hockey (Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kontinental Hockey League) and tennis, in recent years he has significantly expanded his scope of activity, taking part in companies active in the construction sector, petrochemicals, hospitality, aviation, insurance and food production.The Volga Group, an investment group registered in Luxembourg, owned by Gennady Timchenko, is increasing its activities in the Russian market. Forbes magazine estimates the billionaire's wealth at 13 billion francs, and the more conservative Bilan “awarded” him 9-10 billion francs. In the Bilan list, Gennady Timchenko is in 10th place.
Anisimov
3rd place in the Russian-speaking part of the ranking of Swiss billionaires is occupied by 62-year-old Vasily Anisimov . The businessman's family (44-year-old Ekaterina Anisimova and 14-year-old son Nikolai) lives in the prestigious Zurichatmk quartel - next door to the “queen of rock and roll” Tina Turner.
The owner of 3-4 billion francs made his fortune trading raw materials and real estate. His entrepreneurial instinct never let him down - experts called it a waste of money to buy an apartment for his daughter in the center of Manhattan for $10 million, but in less than 10 years its value has increased fivefold. While the names of the billionaire's wife and son are often mentioned on the pages of gossip columns, the businessman himself is surrounded by a wall of silence - information about him rarely appears in the press, the compilers of the rating complained.
Scheffler
Yuri Shefler, a 46-year-old Genevan and owner of the S.P.I. group of companies, specializing in the production of alcoholic beverages, in particular the Stolichnaya ® Premium Vodka brand, popular outside Russia, takes 4th place in our mini-rating. Bilan magazine estimates his fortune at 2.5-3 billion francs, noting that, apparently, this year Yuri Shefler became the owner of a huge estate in Malibu. At the Port of New York's West Side Terminal, where the billionaire's 440-foot yacht Serene is moored, a parking space costs $2,000 a day, the newspaper reports.
Pumpyansky Kolomoisky
5th and 6th places were shared between the owners of 2-3 billion francs - the Pumpyansky family and the new face of the Bilan rating, native of Dnepropetrovsk Igor Kolomoisky . They all also live in Geneva.
From the windows of the Swiss apartment of one of the richest Ukrainians (third on the Forbes list in 2012) there is a wonderful view of the Geneva Jet d'Eau fountain, the compilers of the rating report. One of the founders of the largest commercial bank in Ukraine, PrivatBank, controls a significant share of the Ukrainian air transportation market.According to Bilan, he also owns 10% of the company Central European Media (CME), which owns leading TV channels in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and, of course, Ukraine. CME, founded by billionaire Ronald Lauder (son of Estée Lauder, who founded the cosmetics company of the same name), is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
Igor Kolomoisky is also known for his support of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe. The Ukrainian billionaire is the chairman of the European Jewish Council and the European Council of the Jewish Community of Geneva, which includes his compatriot Vladimir Chertok, the publication reports.
The Pumpyansky family was not idle in 2013. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK), whose chairman of the board of directors is Dmitry Pumpyansky, continues to expand in the international market. Another business of Dmitry Pumpyansky, the Sinara group, signed a contract last year to supply 40 locomotives to Russian Railways, and a new hotel complex appeared in the Arkhyz-1650 ski village, located near Sochi, this summer.
The son of Dmitry Pumpyansky, who graduated from the University of Geneva, has fully recovered from the plane crash in which he was involved last year, the publication reports. In July, Alexander founded the real estate company Segilo in Zurich.
Scheffler
In 7th place in the ranking is Vyacheslav Kantor, also living in Geneva. . According to Bilan estimates, his fortune has decreased by 700 million francs compared to last year and amounts to 1.5-2 billion francs. This year has not been easy for the Russian agrochemical industry. The fall in exchange rates and the decline in the market value of the two world's largest potash producers - Acron and Uralkali - must have had unpleasant consequences for the 60-year-old entrepreneur, who owns 84% and 2.7% of the shares, respectively.
This year, the President of the European Jewish Congress was elected to the post of Chairman of the Political Council of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), whose President is the already mentioned Ronald Lauder. The Jerusalem Post included Vyacheslav Kantor in its list of the 50 most influential Jews in the world at number 19 - this is 15 places higher than last year.
Kulibaeva
Dinara Kulibaeva, whom Bilan calls one of the richest women in Central Asia, has lived in Geneva since 2010. Compared to last year, her fortune remained stable - about 1-1.5 billion francs. According to the publication, the billionaire, who is not interested in social life, attends intensive French language courses. Both of her daughters go to school in Geneva, and her son has just graduated from university in London.
The daughter of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan prefers education to politics - the Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences makes a lot of efforts to involve young people in the educational process, both in Kazakhstan and in Geneva. In June 2013, Dinara Kulibaeva founded the Montes Alti Foundation, whose main goal is to promote education among children and youth of the canton of Geneva.In 2012, the Kulibayev family took 3rd place in our ranking, but the current 8th place does not mean that others have become richer. It’s just that this time Bilan took into account only the share owned by Dinara, since her husband, Timer, currently resides permanently in Kazakhstan.
Yakubovsky
In 9th place in the Russian-language part of the Bilan rating is another new face, a resident of the semi-canton of Obvalden, Dmitry Yakubovsky, with 500-600 million francs. According to the economic magazine, the 50-year-old lawyer and father of four children successfully sold his project to the financial and industrial group AFK Sistema, and transferred a significant part of the proceeds to Switzerland. He settled in Engelberg (whose name translates as "Mountain of Angels") on the advice of his brother Stav Jacobi (Stanislav Jakubovsky), president of the Zurich volleyball club Volero and head of the women's national team.
Shakhnovsky
Vasily Shakhnovsky, according to Bilan, has retained his fortune (400-500 million francs), which allowed him to take 10th place on our list this year. An engineer by training, a liquidator of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant managed to be a member of the Moscow government and a shareholder of the Yukos oil company. According to the economic magazine, he moved to Switzerland after two of his partners were imprisoned. This year, daughter Yulia Shakhnovskaya became director of the Moscow Polytechnic Museum.
Safin
200-300 million francs allowed the Safin family to come to the attention of Bilan and take 11th place in our ranking. According to the publication, the origins of the family's wealth are Ralif Safin, former vice president of the Lukoil oil company (and father of singer Alsou). According to our Swiss colleagues, his younger brother, 50-year-old Richat, lives in Geneva in a wonderful house purchased in 2004 for 20 million francs. The Safins' professional interests include sugar trading and real estate. The family also owns a network of Russian gas stations Artoil, which appeared on the Romanian market this year.
Karimova-Tillyaeva and Tillyaev
In 12th place are Bilan ranking newcomers Timur Tillyaev and Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva with a fortune estimated at 100-200 million francs. The youngest daughter of the President of Uzbekistan lives with her family in the canton of Geneva. Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva is the Ambassador of Uzbekistan to UNESCO and is involved in charity work. Her husband is an entrepreneur and owns a transport company, as well as an indoor market and a network of parking lots in Uzbekistan (according to Bilan). In an interview recently published by the BBC Russian Service, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva said that he owns a small chain of stores in Geneva. According to Bilan, in 2010, Timur Tillyaev bought an estate with an area of 5,812 square meters on the lake for 43.45 million francs.
In the near future, publications in France, Germany, Italy and other countries will write about their compatriots who have joined the list of super-rich people in one of the most prosperous countries in the world. We are also waiting for the richest “born in the USSR” there. And in Russia, in particular.
