OREANDA-NEWS In Russia in 2024, a new billionaire woman appeared - Lyudmila, the widow of St. Petersburg businessman Vladimir Kogan, entered the top 10 richest women in the country for the first time. Such data is provided in the updated Forbes ranking.

According to the publication, her fortune has reached one billion dollars. Lyudmila Kogan's assets are based on a controlling stake in Uralsib Bank (one of the twenty largest in the Russian Federation), only in June this year she received dividends from a credit institution in the amount of about 7 billion rubles. In addition, the woman owns a large leasing company Interleasing and shares in companies belonging to the investment and construction group BFA-Development (engaged in housing construction, and also owns business centers in St. Petersburg).

Tatyana Bakalchuk, the founder of the Wildberries marketplace, topped the list of the wealthiest Russian women, with an estimated capital of $ 5.5 billion. The top three also included Tatyana Litvinenko ($2.45 billion, owns 20.6 percent of Phosagro shares) and the daughter of Alisher Usmanov's partner Andrei Skoch, Varvara ($2.2 billion, owns a stake in USM holding).

Elena Baturina, President of Inteco Management ($1.3 billion), and Natalia Lutsenko, owner of half of the assets of one of the largest processors of oilseeds "Sodruzhestvo" ($1.25 billion), were in the top ten of the rating. The threshold of one billion dollars of capital was also crossed by the daughter of the founder of Novatek, Victoria Mikhelson, and the daughter of the co-owner of the Lukoil oil company, Ekaterina Fedun. The top 10 is rounded out by the wife of the founder of the Phosagro group, Evgenia Guriev ($900 million) and the head of INC-capital, Marina Sedykh ($850 million).

Earlier, Barclays-Hurun India Bank estimated that the fortune of the family of billionaire Mukesh Ambani, who owns India's largest business empire Reliance Industries, reached $ 385.5 billion. This amount is almost one tenth of the country's gross domestic product (GDP). Ambani's companies operate primarily in the energy, retail and telecommunications sectors.