Every year, the Russian edition of Forbes pleases Russians with calculations who have more money in their wallet. Although the top 200 richest people in Russia are predominantly composed of men, there are still women in Russian villages - they will stop the galloping horse and rake the green pieces of paper with a shovel.
And we, based on Forbes materials, compiled a list of the richest women in Russia in 2019, taking into account both their personal condition and the amount of revenue of the companies they lead.
10. Tatyana Volodina
Company revenue: 82.5 billion rubles
Opens the chosen ten of the richest women in Russia Tatyana Volodina, the sovereign manager of the company Alcor and Co, which is better known to the female part of the Russian population as L’Etoile.
According to statistics, this is the largest retail chain for personal care in Russia. It consists of over 900 points selling perfumes and cosmetics throughout the country.
Tatyana has extensive experience in promoting the products of the beauty industry. Once upon a time, she established deliveries of the Clinique brand to Russia, and so well that in just a couple of years, the products of this brand entered the top five best-selling cosmetic products. A couple of years later, she turned the same trick with Shiseido, and with the same success. And five years after her election to the post of General Director of L’Etoile, the network’s turnover (already rather big) increased three times.
9. Marina Turyanskaya
Company revenue: 119.8 billion rubles
And from beauty we turn to nutrition. Turyanskaya heads the leader in the supply of wheat - the agricultural holding RIF, which last year joined the Azov Promekspeditsiya.
Actually, this event opened the way up to Marina, which before that was in the RIF as a commercial director. In just a year, RIF, under her strict guidance, increased revenue by 70%.
8. Ksenia Sosnina
Company revenue: 155.7 billion rubles
The Ilim company, which is run by Ksenia, has long and glorious traditions. At the very beginning of perestroika, the then future president of Russia himself honored her with his attention! True, not this, but the other - Medvedev.
Now half of the company's shares are in the hands of an ideological enemy - the Americans, namely the International Paper Association. It was this fact that gave Ksenia the opportunity to sit in the chair of the general director, since before her appointment she worked in the Russian division of this company.
7. Natalia Eremina
Company revenue: 174 billion rubles
Natalia has gone all the way to the CEO’s chair, as they say, from the beginning. At the beginning of this millennium, she began working at OMK, the metallurgical and metallurgical company, as a watchman watchman — that is, a manager who monitors the performance of other managers. And she did it so successfully that in 2017 she was seated to head the entire company as a whole.
However, now things are not going well with the manufacturer of pipes and wheels: because of the crisis, there are no large construction projects on the horizon, there is no one to sell products. Therefore, the giant corporate ship launched into dangerous waters and is going to try its hand in a new industry.
6. Marina Sedykh
The proceeds of her company: 192.6 billion rubles
According to Forbes, in the middle of the list of the 10 richest women in Russia, there is one single woman who has managed to cling to the oil business. True, for this she had to found an oil company herself.
Since then, the river of black gold flowing through the Irkutsk Oil Company, led by Sedykh, has earned her honor, respect and capital. In 2018, her fortune was estimated at 350 million dollars. INC workers break up strata of gloomy rocks in Siberia and the Far North, from Krasnoyarsk to Yakutsk, and the company's geologists have already discovered 12 oil fields.
In addition to pumping oil, Marina and her company have a plant for processing hydrocarbons and converting them into polyethylene.
5. Svetlana Vinogradova
Company revenue: 229.7 billion rubles
Like the seventh place in the rating, Natalia Eremina, Svetlana had to make a way up from the bottom. For almost a quarter century, she has been working in the same company - the Rolf car sales center.
She began as an ordinary engineer, and then transferred to managerial positions - she led one of the departments of the automobile giant, then managed sales in the regions. And in 2017, she became CEO.
True, Vinogradova’s accession to the throne of the automobile concern was overshadowed by scandal. A number of members of the former management and the founder of the company were suspected of secretly transferring several billion rubles abroad. However, according to the press service of Rolf, the company continues to work, as it did before the scandal. And still remains the largest car seller in the country.
4. Olga Belyavtseva
Cost: 550 million dollars
Fruit juices and mashed potatoes under the brands "I", "Orchard" and "Frutonyanya" are known to most Russians thanks to an active advertising campaign.
All these products were developed at Olga's enterprise - Lebedyansky Concern. In many ways, the success of the company is based on the fact that Olga tried to reach all segments of the population, producing goods of different price categories. Then Belyavtseva successfully sold the untwisted Lebedyansky to American comrades - Pepsi.
However, she didn’t want to rest on capital successfully, and from the remaining in her hands after the sale of capacities she created a new enterprise, this time producing baby food. Ten years after its creation, it has become the undisputed market leader in natural baby food in Russia. It is interesting, by the way, that a third of a century ago she began as a simple packer at a cannery.
3. Elena Rybolovleva
Cost: $ 600 million
Elena did not take the third place in the ranking of the richest women in Russia in 2019 due to the presence of "factories, newspapers, ships". She became the owner of 600 million dollars thanks to the extremely successful divorce proceedings.
Since 1987, a graduate of the Perm Medical Institute for almost a quarter century led a joint venture with Dmitry Rybolovtsev, number 17 on the Forbes list of Russia's 200 richest entrepreneurs. And then it turned out that her husband was cheating on her. A long divorce proceedings began, which ended in the summer of 2015. Parties with models cost Dmitry $ 604 million and two houses in Geneva.
2. Tatyana Bakalchuk
Cost: $ 1 billion
And here is the rising star of the rating - Bakalchuk appeared on the Forbes list just a year ago.
True, Forbes experts note that the financial data on the Wildberries company she runs is open only to the elite, so they had to make assumptions. They focused on sales, profits, as well as the experience of similar companies abroad. And last year, Wildberries gained $ 1.7 billion.
Did Tatyana think that this would be the result of the company she founded 15 years ago? Over the past years, “Forest Berries” (the name of the company is translated from English) not only blossomed and began to bear fruit, but in addition to clothes, they began to sell food, books, household appliances - in general, almost everything that is in demand.
An impressive profit figure Wildberries automatically elevated the business owner to the number of selected tens of billionaires. Bakalchuk already breathes in the back of his head the first place, permanently staying on money Olympus for more than six years. Will the online supermarket win the hotel business? We will find out next year.
1. Elena Baturina
Cost: $ 1.2 billion
For many years now, the richest woman in Russia has remained Elena Baturina. For many years, there were rumors that the main reason for her condition was the marriage of the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov.
In favor of this opinion is the fact that when Luzhkov was removed from office in 2010 ("due to loss of confidence"), Elena had 2.9 billion in her pocket. And this year, "only" 1.2 billion ..
True, she spends money left and right - she will help young designers, then the festival will arrange, then she will buy collection porcelain. And maybe, Elena was crippled by a lawsuit with her brother. He was convicted of fraud with bills of her own company, of which he was vice president.
However, Elena is still full of energy, she is busy with hotels in Russia, Eastern Europe and Ireland. And even the state has increased - since 2018, it has increased by 200 million dollars.
