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Nikolai Buinov
$3.6B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 5/1/24
#914 in the world todayReflects change since 5 pm ET of prior trading day.
Photo by Evgeny Kozirev/Kommersant Photo
About Nikolai Buinov
- Nikolay Buinov is the main shareholder of Irkutsk oil company, the largest independent private oil company in Russia.
- Buinov got his start with a timber company in the early 1990s.
- In 1995, Buinov and his father founded Bodaibo energy company, which supplied fuel and lubricants to gold miners in the north of Irkutsk in Siberia.
- Buinov purchased the license for an oil field in 1997, which was the start of what would become Irkutsk Oil Company.
- Buinov sold a stake in IOC to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in 2008; EBRD later sold part of its stake to Goldman Sachs.
- In 2022 Goldman Sachs sold its stake in IOC to Buinov and his partners.
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- Age
- 56
- Source of Wealth
- Oil, gas, Self Made
- Residence
- Irkutsk, Russia
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Science in Engineering, Leningrad Institute of Railway Engineers
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