Alisher Usmanov

Alisher Usmanov

Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (Russian: Алишер Бурханович Усманов; Uzbek: Alisher Usmonov; born 9 September 1953) is an Uzbek-born Russian oligarch. As reported by Bloomberg Billionaires Index in 2021, Alisher Usmanov has an estimated net worth of $17.9 billion.Usmanov built his wealth through metal and mining operations, and investments, and is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which consolidated in 2006 JSC Metalloinvest's assets (the Mikhailovsky GOK and the Ural Steel) with those of Gazmetall JSC (the Lebedinsky GOK and the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant).He owns the Kommersant publishing house. He is also a co‑owner of Russia's second-largest mobile telephone operator, MegaFon, and co-owner of the Mail.Ru group, the largest internet company in the Russian-speaking world, which owns stakes in popular web portals like Odnoklassniki, VKontakte and others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alisher Usmanov has received more than 2,117,563 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Alisher Usmanov is the 135th most popular businessperson (up from 141st in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Uzbekistan (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Uzbekistani Businessperson.