Vladimir Lisin, the owner of the Russian steel giant Novolipetsk Steel, was named Russia's richest person with an estimated wealth of $18.8 billion by Russia's Finans (Finance) business magazine.
Mikhail Prokhorov, the president of Onexim Group who topped last year's rankings, was second in the 2010 list with an estimated wealth of $17.85 billion.
Roman Abramovich, the former governor of Chukotka and the owner of Chelsea Football Club, came in third with $17 billion. His fortune will enable him to keep the club afloat for another 100 years.
Suleiman Kerimov, who owns the investment group Nafta Moskva, was fourth with $14.5 billion, followed by TNK-BP interim CEO Mikhail Fridman ($14.3 billion), RusAL CEO and owner Oleg Deripaska ($13.8 billion) and mining magnate Alisher Usmanov ($12.4 billion).
LUKoil CEO Vagit Alekperov ($10.65), as well as Severstal CEO Alexei Mordashov ($10 billion) and Interros holding chairman Vladimir Potanin ($9.95 billion) have also made it into the top ten.
Despite the economic recession, Russia's top ten billionaires have almost doubled their aggregate wealth in 12 months to $139.3 billion. The global economic crisis saw the combined fortunes of the top ten richest Russians fall from 221 billion to 75.9 billion in 2008.
A total of 500 super-rich Russians have made it into the list.
The 2010 rating of Russian includes 500 people with an estimated fortune of 3.3 billion rubles ($110 million) As many as 77 Russians have a wealth of over $1 billion each.
MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti)
