The sharp cheapening of “wooden” in relation to the “evergreen” hit not only ordinary Russians, but made the richest top managers in Russia a little poorer. However, the difference between the incomes of ordinary citizens and highly paid managers is so great that the latter are hardly dependent on the dollar. Forbes magazine found out how much the heads of the largest Russian companies earn in foreign currency.
The rating has been updated, read the current list of the richest top managers in Russia 2016 according to Forbes magazine.
The richest were selected from the heads of 70 enterprises of the Russian Federation, whose revenue was the largest in 2014. The rating did not include state-owned corporations and companies managed by owners, such as Norilsk Nickel and Lukoil.
The final income estimate takes into account short-term and long-term remuneration, income received from participation in directorates of subsidiaries and remuneration received outside of Russia. To convert ruble income into US currency, the average rate of the previous year was used - 38.6 rubles per 1 dollar.
Introducing the Top Ten the richest top managers in Russia.
10. Mikhail Kuzovlev, 9.5 million dollars
The ex-president is the chairman of the board of the Bank of Moscow. Since 2011, he heads the Business Council for Cooperation with Cyprus. Dimitris Christofias (former president of Cyprus) - godfather of Kuzovlev’s daughter.
9. Vladimir Yakunin, 11 million dollars
In August 2015, he resigned as head of the Russian Railways OJSC, losing to Oleg Belozerov.
8. Ruben Aganbegyan, 11 million dollars
General Director and Chairman of the Board of Otkritie Holding OJSC. His father is a famous Soviet academic economist Abel Aganbegyan, so Aganbegyan Jr. is familiar with economics and banking since childhood.
7. Mikhail Shamolin, 11.6 million dollars
Head of Sistema Joint Stock Financial Corporation, which owns a minority stake in Ozon. With $ 11.6 million, Shamolin will probably be able to buy the entire range of this online store.
6. Herman Gref, 13.5 million dollars
Since 2002, he has been the Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of the Russian Federation. Speaking at the Finnopolis Kazan Forum of Innovative Technologies in September 2015, Gref said that he owns a small number of bitcoins, only since the purchase they have fallen significantly. Fortunately, now the "bitcoins" have risen in price again.
5. Ivan Streshinsky, $ 15 million
Head of USM Advisors - a company within the USM holding. The holding itself belongs to Alisher Usmanov and his partners. Streshinsky is not a public person, but it is known that the businessman is a member of the boards of directors of a number of companies: Mail.ru Group, Megafon, Kommersant Holding, UTH Russia Ltd.
4. Dmitry Razumov, $ 15 million
One of the youngest participants in the rating (Razumov is 40 years old) has gone from a lawyer at Clifford Chance to the CEO of Onexim Group. In 2014, he joined the Board of Directors of Uralkali and became the head of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Nets basketball club.
3. Igor Sechin, 17.5 million dollars
The president of Rosneft is the only Russian in the 100 most influential people on the planet in the Titans nomination (Time magazine from 2013). And thanks to Sechin, an investment company close to the Kremlin bought a 48% stake in VKontakte in 2013, thanks to which Pavel Durov was pushed out of his “brainchild”, and the social network was taken under state control. After studying Rosneft’s quarterly reports, Vedomosti concluded that Sechin receives about half a million rubles a day.
2. Andrey Kostin, 21 million dollars
The second line in the ranking of the richest Russian top managers went to the head of VTB Bank. In 2013, Kostin's remuneration amounted to $ 37 million and he was the leader of last year's list.
1. Alexey Miller, $ 27 million
The most expensive top manager of 2015 in Russia. 53-year-old head of the company, the famous slogan "dreams come true." He receives remuneration from Gazprom and is the head of the board of directors of 8 companies included in the holding. Miller received more than $ 2 million for just one job at Gazprombank in 2014. In 2010, Harvard Business Review magazine named Alexey Miller the most effective top manager in the world.
Illustrations: forbes.ru