Oleg Deripaska
1968 – ? Russian oligarch, industrialist
Aluminum magnate who emerged from the violent metals wars of the 1990s to build the Rusal empire.
- Affiliations
- Rusal, Basic Element
Oleg Deripaska built his fortune in the aluminum industry during the brutal metals wars of the 1990s, a period of contested takeovers and violence over control of the smelters. He consolidated the assets into Rusal, one of the world's largest aluminum producers, and the Basic Element holding company. Long counted among Russia's richest men and connected to the Kremlin, he was sanctioned by the United States and other Western governments over ties to the Russian state, especially after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
In the timeline
- 2011 Forbes documents concentration of wealth among Kremlin-linked figures one of the documented billionaires