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Vladimir Potanin

1961 - Today

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Vladimir Olegovich Potanin (Russian: Владимир Олегович Потанин; born 3 January 1961) is a Russian oligarch. He acquired his wealth notably through the controversial loans-for-shares program in Russia in the early to mid-1990s. As of December 2024, he is the wealthiest man in Russia and the 59th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$31.2 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vladimir Potanin has received more than 1,519,152 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Vladimir Potanin is the 12,642nd most popular politician (down from 11,456th in 2019), the 1,420th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,260th in 2019) and the 361st most popular Russian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vladimir Potanin ranks 12,642 out of 19,576. Before him are Ali Rıza Pasha, Sándor Wekerle, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, Tilemachos Karakalos, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, and Francisco Antonio Pinto. After him are Murtaza Rakhimov, Marcel Cachin, David V of Georgia, Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas, Epeli Nailatikau, and Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Vladimir Potanin ranks 168. Before him are Elias Koteas, Michel Martelly, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Graham McTavish, Andrey Korotayev, and Mikhail Shishkin. After him are Steve Holmes, Rob Hall, Janet McTeer, Chendo, Arundhati Roy, and Jaroslav Šilhavý.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vladimir Potanin ranks 1,420 out of 3,761. Before him are Sophia Parnok (1885), Marie Vassilieff (1884), Antonina Makarova (1920), Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov (1874), Valery Rozhdestvensky (1939), and Viacheslav Fetisov (1958). After him are Aleksei Balabanov (1959), Ivan Pyryev (1901), Nikolay Novikov (1744), Yevgeny Morgunov (1927), Nadezhda Udaltsova (1885), and Vladimir Vasiliev (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Vladimir Potanin ranks 361. Before him are Karl Vaino (1923), Vitaly Churkin (1952), Anatoli Firsov (1941), Alexander Protopopov (1866), Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (1786), and Carl Enckell (1876). After him are Johannes Virolainen (1914), Sandra Kalniete (1952), Countess Friederike von Schlieben (1757), Fyodor Dan (1871), Igor Rodionov (1936), and Galina Starovoytova (1946).

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