Alisher Usmanov



In 1976 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute with a degree in "international law". His classmate was Sergei Yastrzhembsky. He worked as a researcher at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the senior consultant of the Central Committee of Youth of Uzbekistan, Director General of Foreign Economic Association of the Soviet Peace Committee. In 1966-1981 Usmanov was a member of the Young Communist League, and later joined the Communist Party. 

In 1980, Usmanov with his friend Nasymovym, security officer of the special department of the KGB, the son of the deputy chairman of the KGB of the Uzbek SSR, were sentenced to 8 years in prison for three articles of the Criminal Code (in including rape). Usmanov was released on parole in 1986, "because of the sincere remorse" and "for good behavior". In July 2000, the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan fully rehabilitated Usmanov, calling the criminal case against him was fabricated. 

I graduated from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation on a specialty "Banking" in 1997. In 2012, it founded a diversified international company USM Holdings, which has combined the holding "Metalloinvest", "MegaFon" network operators and "Skartel", the leader of the Internet market in the Russian segment of Mail.Ru Group, Disney Russia TV channels "Muz-TV" and " YU". Shares of the holding company as follows: Usmanov (60%), the structure of Vladimir Skoch (30%) and Farhad Moshiri (10%). 

In March 2012 edition of Bloomberg called Usmanov, Russia's richest man, estimating his fortune at US $ 20 billion. In October 2012, he moved into second place, losing to Viktor Vekselberg. In 2013-2015 he headed the list of Russia's richest people. In 2012, according to Forbes magazine, he took 67th place among the most influential people in the world. In 2016, Forbes magazine estimated the state Usmanov at $ 12.5 billion (№ 3 in Russian). 

In April 2010, the British newspaper The Sunday Times Usmanov included in the top ten richest people of Great Britain. It is located on the sixth position in the ranking with a fortune of 4.7 billion pounds (growth compared with 213 per cent last year). In April 2013, it is named the richest man in the UK according to the rating of The Sunday Times Rich List. In 2013, he entered in the annual rating of "50 most influential people" according to the magazine Bloomberg Markets Magazine.
 

Alisher Usmanov wins lawsuit against German TV channel ARD

Society01.10.2024

Criminal Russian-Uzbek oligarch terrorizes European justice.

Criminal oligarch Alisher Usmanov will open a front against Ukraine

Business27.09.2024

Russian-Uzbek businessman to challenge confiscation of his assets in Ukraine.

The court banned the media from calling oligarch Usmanov the owner of the villa

Governance15.06.2024

A German court has ruled against a newspaper’s claim that sanctioned billionaire Alisher Usmanov is the owner of a luxury property in Bavaria, after Usmanov became the subject of an investigation based on allegations that he owned real estate in Germany.

Alisher Usmanov was recognized as Vladimir Putin's unloved oligarch

Governance26.08.2023

The Hamburg court considered the opposite to be slander.

Alisher Usmanov wrote a slander to a German court

13.08.2023

Russian-Uzbek oligarch has filed a lawsuit over a search on the Dilbar yacht.

Putin's oligarch Alisher Usmanov complained about the sanctions

Business08.08.2023

The founder and co-owner of the USM holding, Alisher Usmanov, said that he was hurt by the sanctions that Italy imposed against him after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Vagit Alekperov earned the most

Business10.07.2023

Vagit Alekperov topped the ranking of the richest Russians in terms of dividends for 2022.

Chemezov - to Basel, Sechin - to Vienna: where the heads of state corporations fly to a pandemic

Society29.06.2020

Russian elites ignore the ban on international flights.

How Russian millionaires lose money on private flights

Business16.01.2020

Annually, at the brokers' margins, customers using charter business jets lose up to $ 1.2 billion.

Alisher Usmanov spoke about his life under two bottles of vodka

Business04.01.2020

For the first time in more than ten years, the Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov gave an interview to the Financial Times; he spoke about relations with Putin and Abramovich, sanctions and heirs, and parting with Arsenal.

Kommersant stumbled over Valentina Matvienko

Society21.05.2019

The full publication policy department resigned because of an article about the speaker of the Federation Council.

Abramovich, Usmanov and Friedman are among the ten richest people in Britain

Business13.05.2019

Their cumulative fortune The Sunday Times newspaper is estimated at 33.5 billion pounds.

Usmanov - in Sardinia, Vekselberg - in Oman

Business10.05.2019

Where the Russian billionaires flew on the May holidays.

Alisher Usmanov presses Rosbalt

Society24.04.2019

The search at Rosbalt may have been sent to search for evidence that was collected for a material not yet published.

UK closes from Usmanov, Sechin, Deripaska and Rothenberg

Governance08.12.2018

Roman Abramovich, Igor Sechin, Alisher Usmanov, Oleg Deripaska, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg were blacklisted by Russian oligarchs in the UK.

Alisher Usmanov will check the wallets of Muscovites and guests of the Russian capital

Business26.10.2018

The structures of the oligarch won the tender of the Moscow metro for processing the fiscal data of passengers, suggesting a negative cost.

In Russia there was the last oligarch

Society01.10.2018

This was told by Alisher Usmanov, who in the US is considered a pro-Kremlin oligarch.

"Rostegh" left Alisher Usmanov one on one with Udokan

Business29.09.2018

The structure of Alisher Usmanov for 10 years of ownership of a license to develop the Udokan copper deposit did nothing.

Alisher Usmanov withdrew from Russia 100 million dollars under the guise of financial assistance to FC Pakhtakor

Business23.08.2018

Representatives of the oligarch said that it was a question of "financial assistance" to the Uzbek football club.

Alisher Usmanov and Alexander Galitsky will pick up the Russian labeling

Business23.08.2018

The Center for Development of Advanced Technologies, which has become a sponsor of the project, will spend 200 billion rubles for 15 years in order to collect forever the fee for each labeled product in Russia.

Alisher Usmanov will hide Vkontakte users from FSB

Society13.08.2018

Within a month, the largest Russian social network "In Contact" will change the rules of privacy and introduce the opportunity to make the profile completely private, leaving access only to its friends.

The election campaign of Sergei Sobyanin is sponsored by Alisher Usmanov, Cossacks and motorists

Society13.08.2018

Sergei Sobyanin's fund has already received more than 113 million rubles, of which 60 he managed to spend. Carefully selected "competitors" do not hurry to spend their budgets.

Sberbank threw $100-150 million to Alisher Usmanov

Business12.08.2018

The State Bank purchased a 10% stake in Mikhailovsky GOK, part of the holding company Metalloinvest, controlled by Alisher Usmanov through a gasket company in Cyprus.

Alisher Usmanov sold 30% stake in the British football club Arsenal

Business07.08.2018

The toxic Russian oligarch is being removed from the UK.

Alisher Usmanov finishes transfer of assets to Russia

Business26.07.2018

Among them, in particular, Metalloinvest and Megafon.

Usmanov's partner can buy speech recognition technology

Business23.07.2018

The manufacturer of IT-systems for the implementation of the law Yarovoy wants to buy the Center for Speech Technology.

Russians will pay taxes to Alisher Usmanov and Sergei Chemezov

Business18.07.2018

With each cigarette, tablet or coat, Russians will pay tribute. The main beneficiary of the introduction of a total marking system in Russia will be the oligarch Alisher Usmanov.

Why did the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Kommersant" Sergey Yakovlev leave his post

Business16.07.2018

Why did his post leave the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Kommersant, Sergei Yakovlev.