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Rinat Akhmetov, Ihor Kolomoisky, Viktor Pinchuk korrespondent.net Only four people who were on the list of Ukraine's richest people managed to get on the 2009 list of billionaires prepared by Ukraine's Korrespondent magazine: Rinat Akhmetov, Ihor Kolomoisky, Viktor Pinchuk and Hennadiy Boholiubov.

Akhmetov, who owns FC Shakhtar Donetsk, was worth $9.6 billion in 2009, more than a three-fold drop from $31.1 billion in 2008.

"Although Akhmetov's assets lost 70% of their value, he is still the richest person in the former Soviet Union," the magazine reports.

Kolomoisky is second on the list with $2.3 billion ($6.6 billion in 2008), next comes Pinchuk with $2.2 billion ($8.8 billion in 2008) followed by Boholiubov with $1.7 billion ($6.2 billion).

According to Korrespondent, "the wealth of many millionaires and billionaires rolled back several years in just a few months. And some rolled back for a much longer period." Businessman Roman Lunin, the owner of the Velyka Kyshenia retail network, whose assets fell by 11 times, led this fall, the magazine reported.