Net Worth: $9.6 billion

Age: 42

Marital status: Married, two sons

Last year: $31.1 billion

Industry: Metallurgy, coal, energy, telecommunications, food industry, finance, mass media

Apart from a massive business empire, Rinat Akhmetov has a keen interest in football. His football club Shaktar Donetsk won a major European trophy – the UEFA Cup in 2009, for the first time in independent Ukraine’s history. In May, Akhmetov pulled off a fantastic deal, given the current crisis. According to the business press, the businessman invested $1 billion to purchase 100 percent of the shares of the American United Coal Company. This makes him the only Ukrainian entrepreneur who is providing his enterprises with his own raw materials. Akhmetov will try to put this competitive advantage to use on external and internal markets quickly. It’s important that the crisis dies down soon, so that the eternal leader of the national race of capitalists can shake off his pursuers by another couple of billion dollars.