Alisher Usmanov Biography
(Russian Businessman and Oligarch)
Birthday: September 9, 1953 (Virgo)
Born In: Chust, Uzbekistan
Alisher Usmanov, is a Russian magnate with an approximate net worth of US$15.1 billion in 2017, according to ‘Forbes.’ He is also touted to be the richest Russian, and a few years back had claimed the 2nd spot in the list of Top 10 wealthiest persons in the UK. Usmanov is a self-established billionaire who started out with selling plastic bags, stockpiling a neat fortune, and then went on to increase his assets manifold by leveraging his investments in several infrastructure corporations. He invested his earnings in mining, lumber, and electrometallurgical companies, and later on acquired stakes in businesses involving publishing, mobile telephony, broadband services, and so on. He has also bought stakes in Arsenal FC and Everton FC, frontline EPL soccer clubs, and is the owner of ‘Kommersant’-a mainstream daily newspaper published from Russia. He has invested heavily in Russia’s largest internet company Mail.ru group as well as in leading automated social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter. Usmanov owns stakes in international technology behemoths like Alibaba, AirBnB, Groupon, ZocDoc, and Zynga. He is a Muslim by faith and happily married to his Jewish love, Irina Viner, a champion Uzbek gymnast, and chief of Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation of Russia.