A native of the Soviet Union became the richest man in Britain – BBC Russian

• 25 April 2015

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Len Blavatnik (left) managed to overtake this year Hindudzhu Gopi and his brother

Warner Music CEO Len Blavatnik, who emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1978, was recognized as the richest person in Britain with a fortune of 13.17 billion pounds (20 billion), heading the list of billionaires, compiled annually by the newspaper Sunday Times.

Blavatnik intercepted palm brothers Sri and Gopi Hindudzha, whose fortune is estimated at 13 billion pounds. Last year he was the fourth line.

Two years ago, who headed the list Alisher Usmanov has appeared now in fourth place. His newspaper assets estimated at 9.8 billion pounds.

The total capital of 1,000 richest people in Britain has more than doubled over the last 10 years and reached 547 billion pounds (830 billion dollars), the newspaper notes.

Billionaires more

Just a list of 117 billionaires. In 2014, there were 104. 80 billionaires live in London.

Blavatnik, whose investment interests lie in the spectrum of metals and oil to the recording industry and electronic media, owns a house in London worth more than 40 million pounds. He donated 75 million pounds to Oxford University for the establishment of the School of Public Administration, which bears his name.

Roman Abramovich, though, and continues to incur losses, but still has a solid state

The highest welfare gains over the last year showed a family of retailers, led by George and Galen Weston, who owns British retailers Selfridges and Primark. Their capital increased by more than half – 3.7 billion – reaching 11 billion pounds.

The owner of the football club “Chelsea” Roman Abramovich took the tenth line of the list with the state 7,290,000,000 pounds – 1.23 billion less than a year ago.

The state of the company owner Richard Branson’s Virgin, by contrast, increased from 3.6 to 4.1 billion pounds, which puts him in 20th position Register richest Britons.

The founder of Virgin Corporation Branson was awarded the twentieth place in the list of billionaires in Britain

In order to formally enter a thousand richest this year, you must have a personal state of at least 100 million pounds – that’s 15 million more than last year low of 85 million.

in 1997 to become one of the thousands of the most successful British was enough to have a soul only 15 million pounds.