The richest women in Russia in 2015 according to Forbes

Only a hundred years ago it was impossible to imagine a woman in leadership positions, and even achieved material success. It was the prerogative of men to be rich. But times have changed. Now, every fifth woman prefers a career to the family and children. And some skillfully distribute their time, doing both. Be that as it may, in each of these categories there are successful representatives of the "weaker sex".From this article, the reader will find out which Russia's richest women are 2015 by the Forbes version of .The magazine compiled a list of 50 people, but only the top ten entered our top.

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Nina Metlenko Status: 190 million dollars


Metlenko, which opens the richest women in Russia, has come a long way to success, starting with the ordinary worker at the Ochakovo BCHC and ending with the vice president of this closed joint stock company. Nina is still in her position to this day. The woman has incredible intuition in financial affairs. Immediately say, what business is waiting for success, and what is doomed to failure."Lay out the shelves" all the components: profit, profitability, risks. Very attentive to the smallest details, if it concerns the work with contracts and contracts.

9

Kamil Shaimiev Status: $ 190 million

Is the granddaughter of the first president of the Republic of Tatarstan, Mintimir Shaimiev. In 2004, the girl entered the Economics Faculty at KFEI, but a year later, she moved to MGIMO, which she successfully graduated. After graduation she found a job in Sistema, owned by billionaire Vladimir Evtushenkov. For five years in the company the girl, who occupies the ninth place in the list of the richest women in Russia, has passed the way from the analyst to the director for investments.
Until August 2014 owned 2% of the shares of the holding company TAIF.Was on its board of directors.

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Maria Sharapova Status: $ 240 million

Born in Nyagan, where her parents moved from Belarus, namely, the cities of Gomel, fearing the consequences of the Chernobyl accident. In 1994, Maria's father moved her to the USA, where she entered the tennis academy of Nick Bolletieri. It was also studied by Andre Agassi and Anna Kournikova. At the age of 17, Sharapova won her first major tournament - Wimbledon. And a year later became the first racket of the world. Has gone down in history as the tenth tennis player, who won all four major tournaments( Grand Slam).Twice she became the best in Roland Garros. Each year, Sharapova, one of Russia's richest women, has at least one victory in an international major tournament.

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Natalia Kasperskaya Status: $ 270 million

Natalia met her future husband - Eugene - at the age of 20.Then they got married, and the girl for 6 years became a housewife and mother of two sons. It was Natalia who persuaded Eugene to make the surname the brand of the newly founded company. The husband was engaged in technical "stuffing", and his wife was promoting the company to international markets and selling products. Later, she became CEO of the company. In 1998, the couple divorced. And after 9 years, Natalya left the post of gene.director. As a moral compensation, she was offered a shareholding of InfoWatch , a subsidiary of Kaspersky. Now the girl, who ranks 7th in the list of the richest women in Russia according to Forbes, is her only owner.

6

Marina Sedykh Status: $ 285 million

Has a higher education in the specialty "Jurisprudence".She worked as a legal adviser in the Primorsky Territory, then moved to the position of a lawyer at the Irkutsk Heavy Machine Building Plant.(ITSM).The woman worked there for 8 years. In 2000, I got a job in the Irkutsk oil company and immediately became its general director. He is a member of the party "United Russia".A woman who occupies the 6th place in the top of the richest representatives of the fair sex, participates in charity, provides material assistance to children with disabilities. Supports young entrepreneurs.

5

Tatiana Bakalchuk Status: $ 375 million

Tatiana founded the online clothing store Wildberries .Currently, its revenue is just over 6 billion rubles. Until 2004 the woman worked as an English teacher. After the birth of her daughter decided to earn a resale of German clothes. Then she could not imagine what this idea would lead to. Her husband helped her with business. All the clothes the businesswoman kept in her apartment - she was something of a warehouse. And the incoming woman, who occupies the middle of the top of the richest representatives of the "weaker sex" of Russia, took it herself.
Wildberries today, this is a store that presents several dozens of clothing models from thousands of brands from around the world.

4

Olga Belyavtseva Status: $ 400 million

In the 1990s she worked as an "economist" in a factory specializing in beverages. Then she created her own firm Assol, which was engaged in the sale of products in the southern regions of the Russian Federation. She owned an 18% stake in OAO Lebedyansky, which in 2008 bought up PepsiCo .The woman, according to Forbes, considered one of Russia's richest women, received $ 330 million for her stake.

3

Guzelia Safina Status: $ 430 million

A woman who took the bronze of our rating of the richest women in Russia, graduated from KazanFinancial and Economic Institute in 1976.Then, for 14 years, she worked as an accountant at several enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan. In 1991 she became the chief accountant of the association "Kazan".On the basis of the latter, the woman created the TAIF group, which, at present, has many large enterprises of Tatarstan. Among them: "Nizhnekamskneftekhim", TGK-16.
Now Guzel is deputy general director of the TAIF group and its shareholder.

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Natalia Lutsenko Status: $ 550 million

Together with her husband Alexander, a woman founded a dog food business. Then the spouses created the Sodruzhestvo Group of Companies and two plants for the production of vegetable oils. In parallel, the logistics business was developed."Commonwealth" owns a terminal for transshipment of tropical oils in the city of Kaliningrad. The Japanese company Mitsui & Co in 2012 bought 10% of the Sodruzhestvo Group of Companies, which enriched the woman receiving the silver rating of the country's richest women by 200 million dollars.

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Elena Baturina Condition: $ 1 billion

And here is the leader of our rating of the richest women in Russia! Graduated from the Moscow State University. Sergo Ordzhonikidze. Is the founder of the company Inteko, which Elena sold for 700 million dollars.
A woman is engaged in charity. Its Noosphere Foundation spent 14 million rubles on good deeds. Supported the project "Street astronomy"( astronomers took telescopes to the streets of the city and offered to look at the stars for everyone).