Just a hundred years ago it was impossible to imagine a woman in a leadership position, and even achieved material success. Being rich was the prerogative of men. But times have changed. Now every fifth woman prefers a career to family and children. And some skillfully distribute their time, doing both. Be that as it may, in each of these categories there are successful representatives of the “weaker sex”. From this article, the reader will find out which richest women in Russia 2015 according to Forbes. The magazine made a list of 50 people, but only the top ten entered our top.
10. Nina Metlenko | Condition: 190 million dollars
Metlenko, opening the top of the richest women in Russia, has come a long way to success, beginning as ordinary workers in the production of the Ochakovo MBPK and ending with the vice president of this closed joint-stock company. To her post, Nina is to this day. A woman has incredible intuition in financial matters. Immediately say what business will succeed, and which is doomed to failure. "Shelves" all the components: profit, profitability, risks. Very attentive to the smallest details when it comes to working with contracts and agreements.
9. Camille Shaimiev | Condition: 190 million dollars
She is the granddaughter of the first president of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimir Shaimiev. In 2004, the girl entered the Faculty of Economics at KFEI, but, a year later, transferred to MGIMO, which she successfully completed. After graduation, she found work in the Sistema company, which is owned by billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov. For five years in the company, a girl who ranks ninth in the list of the richest women in Russia has gone from an analyst to an investment director.
Until August 2014, it owned 2% of the shares of TAIF holding companies. Member of his board of directors.
8. Maria Sharapova | Condition: 240 million dollars
She was born in the city of Nyagan, where her parents moved from Belarus, namely the city of Gomel, fearing the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. In 1994, Mary's father moved her to the United States, where she entered the Nick Bolletieri Tennis Academy. Andre Agassi and Anna Kournikova also studied there. At the age of 17, Sharapova won her first major tournament - Wimbledon. And a year later became the first racket of the world. It went down in history as the tenth tennis player who won all four major tournaments (Grand Slam). Twice became the best in Roland Garros. Every year, Sharapova’s asset, which is one of the richest women in Russia, has at least one victory in an international major tournament.
7. Natalya Kasperskaya | Condition: 270 million dollars
Natalia met her future husband - Eugene - at the age of 20. Then they got married, and the girl became a housewife and the mother of two sons for 6 years. It was Natalia who persuaded Eugene to make the name a brand of the just-founded company. The husband was engaged in technical “stuffing”, and the wife was promoting the company in international markets and selling products. She later became the CEO of the company. In 1998, the couple divorced. And after 9 years, Natalya left the post of gene. directors. As a moral compensation, she was offered a stake in InfoWatch, a subsidiary of Kaspersky. Now the girl, who occupies the 7th place in the list of the richest women in Russia according to Forbes, is her sole owner.
6. Marina Sedykh | Condition: 285 million dollars
Has a university degree in Law. She worked as a legal adviser in the Primorsky Territory, then transferred to the post of lawyer at the Irkutsk Heavy Engineering Plant. (ISTM). The woman worked there for 8 years. In 2000, she got a job at the Irkutsk Oil Company and immediately became its CEO. He is a member of the United Russia party. A woman who occupies the 6th place in the top of the richest women is involved in charity work and provides financial assistance to children with disabilities. Supports young entrepreneurs.
5. Tatyana Bakalchuk | Condition: 375 million dollars
Tatyana founded the Wildberries online clothing store. Currently, his revenue is just over 6 billion rubles. Until 2004, a woman worked as an English teacher. After the birth of her daughter, she decided to earn extra money by reselling German clothes. Then she could not imagine what this venture would result in. Her husband helped her with the business. The businesswoman kept all the clothes in her apartment - she was a kind of warehouse. And the woman who took the middle of the top of the richest representatives of the "weaker sex" of Russia took the goods herself, she took it herself.
Wildberries today, this is a store where dozens of clothing models from thousands of brands from around the world are presented.
4. Olga Belyavtseva | Condition: 400 million dollars
In the 90s, she worked as an economist in a beverage factory. Then she created her own company Assol, which was engaged in the marketing of products in the southern regions of the Russian Federation. Owned an 18% stake in Lebedyansky OJSC, which in 2008 was bought by PepsiCo. The woman, according to Forbes, considered one of the richest women in Russia, received 330 million dollars for her shareholding.
3. Guzelia Safina | Condition: 430 million dollars
A woman who took the bronze of our rating of the richest women in Russia graduated from Kazan Institute of Finance and Economics in 1976. Then, for 14 years, she worked as an accountant at several enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan. In 1991, she became the chief accountant of the Kazan association. On the basis of the latter, the woman created the TAIF group, which, at present, has many large enterprises in Tatarstan. Among them: Nizhnekamskneftekhim, TGK-16.
Now Guzel is the Deputy General Director of TAIF Group and its shareholder.
2. Natalya Lutsenko | Condition: 550 million dollars
Together with her husband Alexander, the woman founded a dog feed business. Then the couple created the Sodruzhestvo Group and two plants for the production of vegetable oils. At the same time, we developed a logistics business. Sodruzhestvo owns a terminal for transshipment of tropical oils in the city of Kaliningrad. The Japanese company Mitsui & Co in 2012 bought a 10% stake in the Sodruzhestvo Group, which enriched the woman receiving silver in the ranking of the richest women in the country by $ 200 million.
1. Elena Baturina | Condition: 1 billion dollars
And here is the leader of our rating of the richest women in Russia! Graduated from MIU. Sergo Ordzhonikidze. He is the founder of the Inteko company, which Elena sold for 700 million dollars.
A woman is engaged in charity work. Her Noosphere Foundation spent 14 million on good deeds. She supported the Street Astronomy project (astronomers brought telescopes to the streets of the city and offered to see the stars for everyone).