Net Worth: $2.37 billion (June 2008)

Age: 37 years old

Marital status: Married, has three sons and a daughter

Last year: -

Industry: Metallurgy, coke, engineering industry

general Director of Donbas Industrial Union (ISD), Oleg Mkrtchan, is a desirable guest in Krasnodarsk region (Russia). The Ukrainian businessman is getting ready to buy 75% of shares of the local Football club Kuban from the regional administration. earlier, a 50% package belonged to the richest, according to Forbes, man in Russia, Oleg Deripaska, and the same amount belonged to the local-authorities.

But in spring of 2008, the Russian multimillionaire transferred his stake in the club to the regional authority and that was it. Mkrtchan took a team under his financial control despite a big hole in the budget, and set it a task to break through to the higher division of the Russian premiere league.

“frankly speaking, when I came to Kuban, the situation in the club was not simple,” said Suren Mkrtchan, general director of the club, and a nephew of ISD joint owner, the main sponsor of krasnodarsky team. “Fortunately, the measures that we swiftly took to pay the debts let us come out of this situation”.

In his spare from football time, Oleg Mkrtchan modernizes Alchevsk metallurgical complex and trades in metal via Ukrainian ore mining and smelting company. The business is quite profitable, enough to make a living off it, plus something else goes to the football. In Ukraine ISD supports Football Club Metalurg (Donetsk), and now is getting ready to take Kuban (Krasnodar).