Vladimir Lisin, the owner of the Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) group of companies, tops the Russian Forbes list of Russians with the highest dividend income for the last three years. From 2019 to 2021, Lisin received 513.8 billion rubles from the companies in which he is listed as a shareholder. His runner-up earned around 170 billion rubles less.
Alexander Mordashov, who ranks second, earned 345.2 billion rubles in dividends, and Alisher Usmanov (third place) received 281.4 billion rubles. Vagit Alekperov with 262.4 billion rubles and Vladimir Potanin with 246.1 billion rubles rank fourth and fifth, respectively.
Total dividend income for the 50 Forbes rating entrants amounts to 3.9 trillion rubles received in the last three years.
Apart from owning the NLMK group of metallurgical companies, Vladimir Lisin holds shares in the logistics companies Freight One and Port One.
Vladimir Lisin’s personal assets are valued at 22.1 billion USD. By this indicator, he ranks third in the Forbes list of Russian billionaires. Since last year, the entrepreneur has increased his fortune by 3.7 billion USD.
