Today, April 14, 2016, the 13th in a row ranking of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia was
published . It turned out two newcomers from the IT-industry. In addition, a new billionaire from the IT industry appeared on the list.
This time the leader of the rating has changed. They became Leonid Mikhelson, chairman of the board of
Novatek with a fortune of $ 14.4 billion. Last year, Vladimir Potanin, the president of
Interros holding, the general director of the MMC
Norilsk Nickel, ranked first. Now he has shifted to the 4th position. The second and third lines were taken by Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov with a fortune of $ 13.3 and $ 12.5 billion, respectively.
Together with Pavel Durov, the owner of the
IBS Group, Anatoly Karachinsky, entered the rating for the first time (No. 91 in the rating, worth $ 0.9 billion).
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In the context of the Forbes rating, Karachinsky can be called a “newcomer,” but he has serious experience in the IT field. In the late 1980s, Anatoly Karachinsky was the director of the Austrian company Prosystem, which supplied personal computers to Russia.
Now Karachinsky is the president of the IBS Group, a public figure, a member of the Innovative Development subgroup of the working group on the formation of the Open Government system in Russia, and a member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
IBS Group is a Russian IT holding, one of the leaders in the country's IT market. It is the largest consulting company in Russia. The two main companies in the group, IBS (IBS IT Services) and Luxoft, specialize in information technology, including business and IT consulting, business application deployment, IT outsourcing, and software development.

Pavel Durov took 135 place with a fortune of $ 0.6 billion.
In his student years, he was a laureate of scholarships of the President of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Russian Federation, a three-time winner of the Potaninsky scholarship.
In 2006, Pavel launched the social network
VKontakte . In August 2013, Durov launched a free cross-platform
Telegram messenger with an audience of 100 million people. He claims that Telegram exists on his personal money.
In April 2014, Durov was dismissed from the post of general director of VKontakte. In the spring of 2014, Pavel Durov left Russia.
Another representative of the IT industry - the owner of
ru-Net, Leonid Boguslavsky - in 2016 for the first time became a billionaire, increasing his fortune from $ 750 million to $ 1.2 billion a year. He took 57 place in the ranking.
Director General of
Kaspersky Lab Evgeny Kaspersky became the 66th with a fortune of $ 1.2 billion.
Yandex NV CEO Arkady Volozh ranked 118th in the ranking with a fortune of $ 0.7 billion. He owns a stake in
Yandex (11.82%). In 2014, Volozh resigned from the post of general director of the Russian “Yandex”, but remained the head of a global company.