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Viktor Vekselberg
Russian–Cypriot oligarch and businessman (born 1957)
Viktor Felixovich Vekselberg (born April 14, 1957) is a Russian-Israeli businessman and oligarch. He is the founder and chairman of Renova Group, a Russian conglomerate.2
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Born Apr 14, 1957.1
Net worth $9.7B (as of 2021, per forbes.com).10 Richest people
About
According to Forbes, as of November 2021, his fortune is estimated at $9.3 billion, making him the 262nd richest person in the world. Born in Ukraine, he has Russian, Israeli and Cypriot citizenship.
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Companies
- ХевелFounder13
- Renova GroupFounder14
Early life and education
Viktor Vekselberg was born in 1957 to a Ukrainian Jewish father and a Russian mother in Drohobych, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (although some reports state that he was born in Lviv). Members of Vekselberg's family were killed and buried in a mass grave during the Nazi repressions in Drohobych. Vekselberg's father fought for the Soviet Union during World War II. Andrew Intrater is Vekselberg's cousin.
In 1979, he graduated from the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering. After that, he worked as a researcher and headed the laboratory of the Design Bureau for rodless pumps "Konnas".
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Career
Occupation: entrepreneur, mathematician, collector, engineer.5
- Date not recordedFounded Fabergé museum in Saint Petersburg3
- Date not recordedFounded Renova Group4
Personal life
He is married to Marina and has two children, a daughter and a son. He identifies himself as multi-national and does not attend weekly synagogue or church services. He has also identified as Jewish.
He has a daughter and grandson who live in New York.
Vekselberg reportedly lives in Switzerland.
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Philanthropy
Jewish philanthropy and remembrance of Holocaust
Vekselberg is a Russian Jewish Congress Consul for Countering Antisemitism, a member of the Bureau of the Presidium of the Congress. Vekselberg has provided support to local Jewish communities throughout Russia and Ukraine in the course of the past decades. With his support, Synagogues and Jewish Community centers have been restored, built and renovated in Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Moscow, and Saratov.
Since the 1990s, Vekselberg has funded the maintaining of the Bronnitsky Wood Memorial near Drohobych to honor the memory of Jews murdered by Nazis during World War II.
He donated $4.5 million to the construction of the $50 million Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, and until February 2021 he was the chairman of the museum's board of trustees. Then Vekselberg was elected as honorary chairman of the board of trustees.
He finances the restoration and construction of synagogues in Russia, including the construction of the Choral Synagogue in Saratov.
In June 2018, a synagoge in Drogobych, Vekselberg's native town in Western Ukraine, was restored from ruins and reopened its doors to public. Vekselberg financed the restoration works and managed to track down the Torah scroll which had been taken out from Drohobych during the Holocaust and later to be hidden in Israel in 1946. He donated this scroll to the synagogue in the loving memory of his father, Felix Solomonovich Vekselberg.
In 2019, a monument was opened in Moscow to commemorate resistance heroes in concentration camps and ghettos. Vekselberg donated $300,000 to its creation.
In 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic broke out, Viktor Vekselberg donated over 2 billion rubles to buy medical equipment, personal protective equipment, and food for socially vulnerable groups of citizens.
In 2021, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov awarded Viktor Vekselberg, among other leaders of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, for helping to bring back Russian tourists from abroad.
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Fabergé Museum
In February 2004, Vekselberg purchased nine Fabergé Imperial Easter eggs from the Forbes publishing family in New York City. The collection was transported to Russia and exhibited in the Kremlin and in Dubrovnik in 2007. Vekselberg is the single largest owner of Fabergé eggs in the world, owning fifteen of them (nine Imperial, two Kelch, and four other Fabergé eggs). In a 2013 BBC Four documentary, Vekselberg revealed that he had spent just over $100 million purchasing the nine Fabergé Imperial eggs from the Forbes collection. He claims never to have displayed them in his home, saying he bought them because they are important to Russian history and culture, and he believed them to be the best jewelry art in the world. In the same BBC documentary, Vekselberg revealed plans to open a museum to display the eggs in his collection. The result was the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which had its official opening ceremony on November 19, 2013.
In September 2006, Vekselberg agreed to pay approximately $1 million in expenses to transport the Lowell House Bells from Harvard University in the United States back to their original location in the Danilov Monastery and to purchase replacement bells.
Vekselberg paid £1.7 million at a Christie's auction in 2005 for Odalisque, a nude said to be the work of Russian artist Boris Kustodiev. However, soon after the purchase, experts working for Vekselberg's art fund, Aurora, began to cast doubt on the picture's authenticity. They claimed that Kustodiev's signature, dated 1919, was done in aluminium-based pigment not available until after the artist's death in 1927. Vekselberg sued Christie's, and the judge ruled in July 2012 that he was entitled to recover the £1.7 million that he paid for the painting, plus Christie's was ordered to pay around £1 million in costs.
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Awards
- 2014Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class8
- Date not recordedCommendation of the Government of Russia8
- Date not recordedDecoration "For Beneficence"8
- Date not recordedOrder "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class8
- Date not recordedOrder of Alexander Nevsky8
- Date not recordedOrder of Honour8
- Date not recordedOrder of St. Sergius of Radonezh8
- Date not recordedRussian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude8
- Date not recordedRussian Federation Presidential Certificate of Honour8
- Date not recordedhonorary citizen of Sverdlovsk Oblast8
Net worth over time
Planes and yachts
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Flight and yacht reports
- The mechanics of the Cook Islands registry
CelebYachts report On the record, Oct 2, 2026An open registry built on speed and low overhead struggles to defend its hulls when they enter jurisdictions that enforce international sanctions. - How Tango and ZEN show Feadship's growthCelebYachts report On the record, Sep 25, 2026Two yachts from the same Dutch cooperative reveal how new shipyard sheds and changing buyer wealth expanded superyacht sizes over ten years.
- The Executive order that named TangoCelebYachts report On the record, Aug 21, 2026Viktor Vekselberg’s 77.7-metre Feadship was not lost to a holding company; it was identified, priced, and frozen by name in a United States presidential…
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