FX.co ★ Villas in France and mansions in New York: Forbes list participants' property

Vladimir Lisin

The businessman, who ranks first in the list of Forbes domestic billionaires and whose fortune is estimated at $19.1 billion, hunts in the vicinity of his own estate, Aberuchill Castle in Scotland, acquired in 2005. The Scotsman newspaper cites the details of this purchase: the billionaire paid £6.8 million for a plot of more than 1,300 hectares and a 16th-century castle.

In addition to being the chairman of the board of directors of NLMK, Vladimir Lisin is also the president of the Russia Shooting Union.

Vagit Alekperov

Lukoil President Vagit Alekperov settled in the Danish kingdom. The area of his mansion is small, 130 square meters, like Denmark itself, by the way. The amount of the transaction is estimated at $700,000. In the businessman's house in Helsingør, where the events of the Hamlet play by Shakespeare took place, there are two bedrooms. On the territory, there is a small garden and a garage for two cars.

Alekperov's fortune is estimated at $16.4 billion (No. 4 in the Forbes list).

Andrey Melnichenko

In 2003, the main shareholder of EuroChem, Andrey Melnichenko, bought a villa in Antibes on the Cote d'Azur for 10 million euros. The businessman, who occupies the 7th place in the Forbes list with a fortune of $15.5 billion, also owns the Harewood mansion in English Ascot with an estimated value of £24 million.

Mikhail Fridman

Fortune: $15.1 billion (No.8 in the Forbes list).

In 2016, the British authorities gave Mikhail Fridman permission to partially restructure his Athlone House estate in Hampstead Heath, in north London. According to the Daily Mail, the billionaire plans to equip six bedrooms, a gym, a cigar room, a yoga room in the mansion and build cottages for service personnel and a tennis court.

Fridman acquired Athlone House for £65 million, but according to the Daily Mail, after renovation, the value of the estate will double.

Viktor Vekselberg ($14.4 billion, No.9 in the Forbes list)

The chairman of the board of directors of the Renova group of companies, Viktor Vekselberg, is clearly not a superstitious person. In 2007, the billionaire bought a Feltrinelli villa on the shores of Lake Garda in Italy for $40 million, a place with a complicated history. Benito Mussolini spent last years of his life in the villa, and one of the owners of the villa, politician Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, made it the terrorist base of the Partisan Action Group.

Alisher Usmanov

Alisher Usmanov owns the Beechwood House estate in the suburbs of London. The cost of a two-storey mansion, built in 1840, is estimated at £48 million. In 1974, Beechwood House was listed as a national heritage of England.

The fortune of the founder of Metalloinvest, Alisher Usmanov, is equal to $12.5 billion (No.10 in the Forbes list).

Roman Abramovich

Fortune: $10.8 billion (No.11 in the Forbes list).

In 2017, Roman Abramovich finally succeeded in a plan to unite the three historic mansions in New York into one house. The billionaire bought mansions with a total value of $78 million. But the Commission for the Protection of Architectural Monuments rejected the plan to change the facade of the houses, pointing out that this would spoil the historical appearance of the city. The billionaire had to buy another house for $18 million. A plan in which one of the houses was replaced by another satisfied the commission. The restructuring will cost $6 million.

The businessman has a passion for rebuilding the houses he bought. In 2016, he decided to redevelop a house on Kensington Palace Gardens in London to increase the size of the pool.

German Khan

Fortune: $9.8 billion (No.12 in the Forbes list).

Member of the Board of Directors of LetterOne Holdings and the Supervisory Board of Alfa Group, German Khan, spent £62 million for a house in the Belgravia area of London.

Mikhail Prokhorov

The billionaire with a fortune of $9.6 billion (No.13 in the Forbes list) owns a five-story chalet in Courchevel with an estimated value of $30 million. In March 2017, the media wrote that the Courchevel chalet was robbed.

Oleg Deripaska

Oleg Deripaska, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Basic Element, acquired a six-story mansion in the same area as Prokhorov. At the time of the transaction in 2003, real estate valued at £25 million.

Oleg Deripaska's fortune is estimated at $6.7 billion (No.19 in the Forbes list).

Alexander Abramov

Fortune: $5.2 billion (No.21 in the Forbes list).

The head of Evraz, Alexander Abramov, spent over $50 million on the construction of a new villa in New Zealand. But to be honest, New Zealanders are not very happy about this neighborhood. The New Zeland Herald newspaper in 2017 wrote that the irrigation of the Abramov lands takes almost 60,000 liters of clean water from local water bodies. The neighbors of the Russian oligarch are convinced that this can cause irreparable harm to the ecosystem.

Pyotr Aven

Aven, the chairman of the board of directors of the Alfa Bank banking group, bought the Ingliston House plot in Virginia-Water County, Surrey, in 2004, and built a house on it so that his children could go to school nearby.

Fortune: $5.1 billion (No.22 in the Forbes list).

Andrey Guryev

Forbes: $4.5 billion (No.26 in the Forbes list).

The owner of PhosAgro, Andrey Guryev, the owner of the second largest after Buckingham Palace mansion in London, Witanhurst. In addition, in May 2016, The Guardian reported that Guryev became the owner of the penthouse in the highest residential building in the UK, St.George Wharf. According to the newspaper, the cost of the penthouse was £51 million.

Yuri Milner

Fortune: 3.7 billion (No.31 in the Forbes list).

The founder of the DST Global group of funds, Yuri Milner, in 2011 acquired a mansion in the French style in Silicon Valley for $100 million. According to the canons of French castles, in the American house of Milner there is a ballroom and a wine cellar.