Alexander Lebedev net worth
Alexander Lebedev Net Worth: Alexander Yevgenievich Lebedev is a former KGB official and Russian businessman with a net worth of $1.1 billion. International media often refer to him as a Russian oligarch or business magnate. In 2008, he was listed as one of the richest people in the Russian Federation.
He is part-owner of several English-language newspapers, such as The Independent on Sunday, The Independent and the London Evening Standard, and is a partner in the Russian edition of the New Gazette. Alexander Lebedev was born on December 16, 1959 in Moscow. His parents were part of a wise nobility in Moscow. Alexander Lebedev’s father, Yevgeny Nikolaevich Lebedev, was a professor at the Baumanka Institute, a large technical school in Moscow. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lebedev founded his first financial company, the Russian Investment Finance Corporation. Later, the company acquired the Russian State Reserve Bank, which was facing bankruptcy at the time. And today, it is one of the richest banks in Russia. Alfa Bank and the National Reserve Bank were the only two banks that survived Russia’s deep financial crisis in 1998. Most recently, he acquired about 11 percent of Aeroflot, the dominant stake in Russia’s aircraft-building industry, and holds various stakes. Financial institutions such as RAO UES, Gazprom and Sberbank. In addition to business, he also experimented with politics. Most notably, Lebedev served as a member of the Russian parliament until 2007, after which he attempted to form a new Social Democratic Party with Mikhail Gorbachev. Unfortunately, this effort was ultimately unsuccessful. Lebedev funded the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, which opened a free children’s cancer hospital in St. Petersburg.
