The Ezhednevnik website has compiled the tops of successful and influential Belarusian businessmen since 2007, and another one has been published today.

For the first time in the first place was an IT businessman - this is 39-year-old Viktor Kisly, founder of Wargaming.net. Last year, Yury Chyzh was in first place.

When compiling the rating, not only the share of Kisloye in the value of the business, which exceeded $3 billion, but also local nuances were taken into account. For example, the compilers of the rating separately indicated that one of the most devoted fans of Wargaming is the youngest son of the president. Together with Viktor Kisly, at the top of the list are his fellow students, owners of 17% of the gaming business, Nikolai Katselapov and Ivan Mikhnevich.

The compilers of the rating also pay attention: “The top-200 project at this stage does not set the task of assessing how much money this or that businessman has. In the conditions of the closed Belarusian economy, this is difficult, controversial and unsafe. The project primarily pursues an educational goal. On the one hand, it promotes recognition of the person, increasing the loyalty of the population to private business in general, on the other hand, it serves as a source of information for potential partners and investors who are going to implement projects in Belarus.”

A bit of envy: the youngest participant in the rating is 28 years old. This is Andrey Shimanovich, who became famous thanks to the mSpy mobile application (tracks telephone traffic). There are only six women in the top 200: Lyudmila Antonovskaya from Polimaster Instruments, Tatyana Krepchuk (Emir Motors, distribution and Toyota car service), Ksenia Shuravko (Onliner), Alma Jauntsemene (Tropinka, Neighbors ”, distribution of vegetables and fruits, Tempo and Vasilki establishments), Svetlana Siparova (“Mark Formel”) and Diana Kurilo-Shigalova (co-owner of the Zhdanovichi trading house).

We will list only the top 30 businessmen, if they do not have a photo, it means that there really are no photos with these people on the Internet. Not everyone has time to update instagram, someone should get into the lists of the most influential entrepreneurs! The entire rating can be viewed in the "Diary" - believe me, this is one of the best materials of the year in Belarusian journalism: some interesting facts are reported about each businessman, family ties are indicated and quotes from interviews are written.

1. Victor Sour

Founder and CEO of Wargaming net

2. Vitaly Arbuzov

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fenox Global Group

3. Alexander Moshensky

General Director of JV LLC "Santa Bremor"

4. Pavel Topuzidis

Chairman of the Board of Tabak-Invest LLC

5. Alexander Shakutin

Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Amkodor Holding Management Company, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CJSC Absolutbank

6. Evgeny Baskin

General Director of SZAO Servolux

7. Sergey Litvin

8. Vladimir Vasilko

Member of the Supervisory Board of Eurotorg LLC

9. Alexey Oleksin

Director of CJSC Energo oil, member of the Supervisory Board of CJSC MTBank

10. Alexey Zhukov

CEO of Alutech Group of Companies

11. Vladimir Peftiev

In the past - the majority shareholder of CJSC "Management Company of the Holding "Beltech Holding", ex-chairman of the general meeting of shareholders of CJSC "Beltechexport"

12. Yuri Chizh

General Director of Triple LLC, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of FC Dinamo-Minsk

13. Viktor Petrovich

Director of OOO Tabak-invest

14. Arkady Dobkin

Co-owner, President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of EPAM Systems Inc.

15. Nikolai Katselapov

16. Ivan Mikhnevich

Co-owner of Wargaming Group Ltd.

17. Nikolai Vorobyov

Co-owner of Interservice LLC, member of the Supervisory Board of CJSC Absolutbank

18. Nikolai Martynov

General Director of LLC Holding Management Company Belarusian Leather and Footwear Company Marko, Member of the Supervisory Board of OJSC Belinvestbank

19. Valentin Baiko

Chairman of the general meeting of participants JLLC Conte Spa

20. Dmitry Baiko

Deputy General Director JLLC Conte Spa

21. Valery Shumsky

Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yukola Group of Companies

22. Sergey Savitsky

General Director of LLC International Automobile Holding Atlant-M

23. Oleg Khusaenov

General Director of Zubr Capital LLC, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Atlant-M International Automobile Holding LLC

24. Sergey Levteev

Chairman of the Board of the IBA Group

25. Alexey Vaganov

Co-owner of the Lada OMS Group of Companies, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of JV CJSC Unison, Member of the General Meeting of Shareholders of the TDF Ecotech Consortium, Chairman of the Board of CJSC Eight Channel

26. Andrey Pavlovsky

Chairman of the general meeting of participants of LLC Biocom, director of LLC Biocom Invest, member of the supervisory board of JSC Belinvestbank

27. Sergey Borok

Co-owner of SOOO Zavod Bulbash

28. Anatoly Ternavsky

President of CJSC Transnational Corporation Russian-Ukrainian Oil Society, General Representative of the Univest group of companies in the CIS

29. Andrey Balabin

Chairman of the General Meeting of Shareholders of CJSC Patio

30. Alexander Center

Chairman of the Board of A-100 Group of Companies

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After analyzing the data of the first thirty Top-200 businessmen, the journalists drew up a portrait of the average Belarusian rich man.

in the photo (from left to right): Pavel Topuzidis, Alexander Center, Arkady Dobkin

Recall that the editors of the portal have been preparing a list of wealthy people in the country since 2007.

The leader of the fresh rating was 47-year-old Alexander Moshensky - the "dairy king" from Brest, the owner of "Savushkin Product" and "Santa Impex Brest". He moved the country's main "tankman" Viktor Kisly from the first place, who led the rating for the last two years. Now Viktor Kisly is only fourth.

It is not known whether there are dollar billionaires in Belarus like Bill Gates or, at worst, Roman Abramovich. In 2010, the Ukrainian economic magazine Delo named Vladimir Peftiev the richest man in Belarus - according to the magazine, he had a billion dollars.

The current ranking of the "weapon king" is no longer there, but there is Viktor Kisly - in 2016, the authoritative Bloomberg agency called the 39-year-old IT specialist a dollar millionaire - it is he who is at the helm of Wargaming, the very one that created computer "tanchiki". In this year's ranking, Sour takes the fourth place.

After analyzing the data of the first thirty Top 200 businessmen, Komsomolskaya Pravda calculated what a typical Belarusian billionaire looks like. This is a 51-year-old resident of Minsk, who is mainly engaged in real estate, retail or IT, is married, has two children.

Gender: male

Age: 51

We calculated the average age of a Belarusian top entrepreneur simply: we added up the years of life of all businessmen, and divided by their number, by 30.

The youngest participant in the top 30 is 34-year-old IT specialist Viktor Prokopenya (12th place). His company is developing artificial intelligence technologies, augmented reality, and together with Russian billionaire Mikhail Gutseriev, he is engaged in venture investments.

The oldest participant in the top thirty was 62-year-old IT specialist Sergey Levteev (23rd place) - he runs the IBA company, which develops and promotes IT services and products.

Marital status: married, two children

20 of the 30 richest businessmen are married, there is no exact information on ten more. The average number of children per businessman is 2.4. The record holder is Oleg Khusaenov (19th place), who has four sons and a daughter. Alexander Center (8th place), Alexei Zhukov (20th place) and Sergey Gvardeytsev (29th place) have four children.

Place of birth: Minsk

Not all businessmen have data on the place of birth. But in cases where this is known, the majority turned out to be from Minsk, and many from the regions. Although in general the geography is quite wide. For example, Pavel Topuzidis (3rd place) was born in Abkhazia, Alexey Zhukov (20th place) and Sergey Levteev (23rd place) - in Russia, Nikolai Vorobey (17th place) in Ukraine. Oleg Khusaenov (19th place) is a native of Kazakhstan.

Current place of residence: Minsk

The vast majority of businessmen from the top thirty live in the Belarusian capital. Three live and work in Cyprus, two more each in Grodno and Monaco, one businessman each in Luxembourg, Brest, Mogilev, Novopolotsk, Moscow, Prague and Riga.

Education: higher technical

It is known that four of the top thirty businessmen graduated from the Minsk Polytechnic University, now - the Belarusian National Technical University. Six graduated from Belarusian State University - as a rule, physics or mathematics. The education of four more is related to aviation, they studied in Leningrad, Riga and Moscow.

Thus, the education of the majority of the Belarusian rich is higher technical. Of course, there are exceptions. For example, Alexander Shakutin (15th place) is a medical doctor by profession, he graduated from the Minsk Medical Institute. Nikolai Martynov (21st place) majoring in political science - studied at the Institute of Political Science and Social Administration of the Communist Party of the BSSR.

Nikolai Vorobey (17th place) is a historian by profession, and the owner of the Conte Spa plant, Valentin Baiko, is a teacher of elementary grades.

Business start date: 1993

Most of the Belarusian top businessmen began their careers during the collapse of the USSR and in the “dashing nineties”. Sergey Levteev (23rd place) was the first to get his bearings from the top thirty. The 30-year-old electronics engineer started his business at that time in 1985, that is, back in the days of the USSR. In two decades, his company IBA has become one of the most successful software development and distribution businesses in the world.

There is a prejudice that the population of Belarus is basically poor people. However, this is not the case. Belarus has a developed industry, there are high-tech industries, commercial, trade enterprises and banks. All this inevitably leads to the accumulation of significant funds in the hands of the owners of successful companies. According to some data in the country more than 10 thousand millionaires(population of Belarus 9.5 million).

The wealthiest people in Belarus prefer not to advertise their fortunes. Information about them from official expert organizations is fragmentary and contradictory. Moreover, the economic crisis with its unstable exchange rates adds to the confusion. However, the ubiquitous media, something manages to find out. As of 2016, according to open sources, the list of the richest people in Belarus is as follows.

Viktor Shevtsov, $100 million

Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC Belzarubezhstroy, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of CJSC Trustbank. By education, radio physicist-electronic engineer. Started his business in 1991. He professes Orthodoxy. Active public figure and philanthropist. Several temples were built at his own expense. Member of many government commissions for economic cooperation with such states as Russia, China, Lebanon.

Pavel Topuzidis, $100 million

Born in Abkhazia. He made his fortune through tobacco production. Chairman of the Board of the Tobacco Factory OOO Tabak-Invest. In the sphere of his interests are also real estate transactions, motor transport services, agricultural production. Pavel Georgievich also owns shopping centers, health centers, a pharmacy chain and an elite country club near Minsk.

Alexander Moshensky, 46, $150 million

He organized a business for the import of frozen fish from Europe in 1993. The business has developed, and today Moshensky is mainly engaged in food production, has a network of restaurants, and transport services. He is fond of sports.

Vitaly Arbuzov, $200 million

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fenox Global Group holding, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fenox Venture Capital. Graduated from the Polytechnic Institute (engineering). He entered the business in 1989. It is engaged in the production and distribution of automotive components, international trucking, construction, and innovative medical developments. Passionate about expensive cars.

Vyacheslav Zarenkov, $0.5 billion

Has academic degrees. He personally patented several inventions, writes monographs. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Etalon Group of Companies (LenSpetsSMU). Vyacheslav Adamovich founded the first enterprise of the group in 1987. Engaged in the construction of residential complexes, industrial and commercial facilities. Actively helps orphanages. He is fond of drawing and sports.

Mikhail Abyzov, $1.2 billion

Mikhail Anatolyevich, who is currently the Minister of the Russian Federation in charge of the work of the Open Government, is included in this list as a native of Minsk. Known as a high-class anti-crisis manager. He worked in the management of RAO UES, RAO Kuzbassrazrezugol, was engaged in independent business in the field of engineering, construction and energy. He is fond of extreme rallies. Raises four children.

Victor Kisly, over $1.5 billion

The youngest Belarusian billionaire. By education he is a physicist. Founder and CEO of Wargaming, which gave the world World of Tanks. The office is located in Cyprus. The company also develops and successfully implements other projects. It sponsors military history museums, finances the restoration of military equipment. Enjoys computer games.

Vladimir Peftiev, $1 billion

Since 1993 he has organized his own business. He was engaged in the sale of weapons that remained on the territory of Belarus after the collapse of the USSR. He owns an aircraft factory, a lottery company, and has invested in Internet technologies and mobile communications. Enjoys tennis.

Dmitry Mazepin, $1.4 billion

He has two educations - a translator and a financier. She has worked in many companies in the energy sector, as well as banks. Currently engaged in business in the chemical industry in Russia (Uralchem). A significant part of the money earned is spent on charity, helping large families and educational institutions.

Andrey Klyamko, $1.9 billion

Co-owner of the Smart Holding group of companies, whose enterprises belong to the construction industry, agriculture, oil and gas and mining and metallurgical industries. Interested in sambo.

Andrey Melnichenko, $11.4 billion

A native of the city of Gomel. Started as a banker, then unexpectedly sold a successful business, becoming interested in the industry. Among his assets are a coal company, an electric power company, OJSC Eurochem, one of the largest producers of mineral fertilizers in the world. As a sponsor, he supports sports and education.

In recent years, Belarusian and Russian journalists have assigned the status of dollar millionaires to Arkady Dobkin, Yuri Chizh, Oleg Khusaenov, Anatoly Ternavsky, Sergei Kostyuchenko, Alexander Shakutin, Yevgeny Baskin, Vladimir Vasilko, Sergei Litvin, Alexei Zhukov, Alexei Oleksin.

Business has been actively developing in the Republic of Belarus for the last quarter of a century. Many managed to make a good fortune thanks to entrepreneurial activity. The richest people in Belarus do not try to advertise their own profits, but despite this, it is not difficult to rank people who have a high level of income.

The main profit is brought to him by the tobacco factory Tabak-Invest LLC. In addition to the tobacco factory, Topuzidis is interested in the construction industry and real estate. Pavel Georgievich owns several shopping centers in the country, a network of pharmacies and health centers. There is an elite country club near Minsk, which is also owned by a businessman. Topuzidis' fortune is estimated to be $100 million.

Viktor Shevtsov is the chairman of ZAO Belzarubezhstroy. He also chairs the Supervisory Board of CJSC Trustbank.

Shevtsov started his entrepreneurial activity in 1991. During this time, he managed to earn a decent fortune, which is estimated at $ 100 million. By the way, Shevtsov does not spare money for the construction of churches.

In 1993, Moshensky founded his own business for the supply of frozen fish from European countries. The activity turned out to be very successful, thanks to which the businessman quickly expanded the list of offers for his clients. Today, a small fish trading company has evolved into a food production business. Among other things, Moshensky has a transport company and a chain of restaurants in the country.

The general condition of Alexander Moshensky is equal to 100 million dollars.

Arbuzov founded his business back in 1989 - this is LenSpetsSMU CJSC. Today he holds the position of Chairman of the Board of the Fenox Global Group holding, which manufactures and sells automotive components. Arbuzov also has a construction business, a company that offers international transportation services, and a company that is engaged in innovative medical developments.

Estimation of the businessman's fortune - 200 million USD. Arbuzov is known as a big connoisseur of expensive cars.

Heads the board of directors of the Etalon group of companies. The businessman opened his first company in 1987. Until that time, he worked at Glavzapstroy, where in 13 years he had come a long way from a fitter and completed it as a head of department. Now Zarenkov's field of activity is the construction of industrial and commercial complexes, residential buildings. The businessman has academic degrees, he even patented several of his own inventions.

According to the latest data, the businessman has about $0.5 billion in his accounts. At the same time, Vyacheslav Adamovich transfers significant amounts as assistance to orphanages.

This person is called the youngest millionaire in Belarus. His name is familiar to many network users, since it was Sour who founded the Wargaming company, which introduced World of Tanks to the attention of the players. The company's office is located in Cyprus. In addition to the well-known game, the company is engaged in the production of many other products.

Victor's fortune is more than 1.5 billion dollars.

Katselapov Nikolay

One of the co-founders of Wargaming. It was he who promoted the game on the world market. The general condition of the businessman is more than a billion dollars. Katselapov, like other founders of the company, spends a lot of time in Cyprus, where the office of the creators of World of Tanks is located. But a few years ago, a businessman bought an apartment in the center of Minsk. Housing worth 675 thousand dollars was included in the list of the largest real estate transactions in the Belarusian market. And if we take into account only transactions executed by citizens of the country, then Katselapov was the first to make such an expensive purchase on the real estate market.

At the dawn of the existence of the Republic of Belarus as an independent state, Peftiev also organized his business. In 1993, he was engaged in the sale of weapons that remained on the territory of the country after the collapse of the Union. The business has grown into larger projects. Today Peftiev owns a lottery company and also owns an aircraft factory. In addition, he actively invests in the development of mobile communications and actively supports the development of Internet technologies.

The businessman's fortune is 1 billion dollars.

Melnichenko began working in the field of banking. But soon he sells a quite successful business and reorients himself into the industrial sector. His assets are an electric power company, a coal company. He also owns Elektrokhim OJSC, a plant that is recognized as the largest producer of mineral fertilizers in Europe.

Despite the Russian citizenship, Melnichenko is classified as a Belarusian millionaire in the ratings. His fortune is 11.4 billion dollars. Melnichenko often transfers funds to support sports and education. However, lately the businessman has somewhat lost his position. In the world rankings, he moved from 137th to 139th place.

Minsker Abyzov has a reputation as an excellent anti-crisis manager. He was able to successfully manage default crises in the energy industry. At the moment, Abyzov holds the position of head of the board of directors of the engineering company E4 Group. The company includes 13 holdings and is currently the leading company in this industry.

Mazepin is called one of the richest people in the country. But there is very little information about his personality, since the businessman is a completely non-public person.

The first significant position he is offered at the Tyumen Oil Company. He becomes vice president, and at the time of taking office, Mazepin is only 28 years old. After that, he becomes the general director of Kuzbassugol, then the president of AK Sibur. And after he left the post of president of Sibur, Mazepin refocuses on business in the chemical industry.

Klyamko Andrey

Another completely non-public person among Belarusian millionaires. Klyamko in the mid-90s organized the business group "Smart-Holding". Moreover, even the lack of higher education did not prevent him from successfully doing business.

Today Klimko has Ukrainian citizenship. Its assets are located on the territory of different CIS countries.

Entrepreneurial activity of Yuri Mikhailovich began with the sale of cows. This he began to do immediately after graduation. A little later, in 1992, Chizh refocused and launched the production of building materials.

In 2012, the businessman falls under EU sanctions, the reason being “support for the Lukashenka regime.” Now Chizh is suspected of fraud.

The state of the businessman according to the latest data is 90 million dollars.

The development of the Belarusian economy is incomprehensible until today. The country, which most European and American leaders consider to be the "remnants of tyranny", due to the restrictions on democratic freedoms, has a fairly strong and stable bureaucracy. Among such representatives of an elite society, there is a certain proportion of people who have numerous monetary savings in their assets. Who are the most rich people in Belarus?

Versions regarding Belarusian billionaires

Some researchers on the Internet suggest that rich people of this country are the representatives of the authorities. Officials were able to secretly divide spheres of influence at the end of the last century, and now their numerous fortunes are equated to billions. On the other hand, Ezhedenevnik, a Belarusian publication published on the Internet, explored a different strategy for the development of the capitalist hierarchy.

List of the richest people in Belarus

Later, in 2013, a new list of rich people in Belarus . It is worth noting that experts carefully monitored the commercial activities of influential people in the country. Based on the research, the following conclusions were drawn:

- the first place belongs to Yuri Chizh - an important figure, the chief executive of the board of directors of "Tripe", which includes a large number of companies.

- the second place belongs to Alexander Shakutkin - the main person of the board of directors of OAO "Amkord-Holding Management Company".

- Honorable third place belongs to Vitaly Arbuzov, representing Fenox Global Group and Fenox Venture Capital.

– the fourth place was given to Pavel Topuzdis, who focuses on healthcare, real estate, recreation, etc. Find out: