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Yury Kovalchuk (Yury Valentinovich Kovalchuk) was born on 25 July, 1951 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, is a Chairman and largest shareholder, Rossiya Bank. Discover Yury Kovalchuk's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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Yury Valentinovich Kovalchuk |
Occupation |
Chairman and largest shareholder, Rossiya Bank |
Age |
73 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Leo |
Born |
25 July 1951 |
Birthday |
25 July |
Birthplace |
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia) |
Nationality |
Russia |
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He is a member of famous Chairman with the age 73 years old group. He one of the Richest Chairman who was born in Russia.
Yury Kovalchuk Height, Weight & Measurements
At 73 years old, Yury Kovalchuk height not available right now. We will update Yury Kovalchuk's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Yury Kovalchuk's Wife?
His wife is Tatyana Kovalchuk
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Wife |
Tatyana Kovalchuk |
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Boris Kovalchuk |
Yury Kovalchuk Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Yury Kovalchuk worth at the age of 73 years old? Yury Kovalchuk’s income source is mostly from being a successful Chairman. He is from Russia. We have estimated
Yury Kovalchuk's net worth
, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2023 |
2.1 billion USD (2020) |
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Net Worth in 2022 |
Pending |
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Under Review |
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Chairman |
Yury Kovalchuk Social Network
Timeline
Kovalchuk is a known friend of Putin’ he hosted the wedding of Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova to Kirill Shamalov at his wholly owned ski resort, Igora, in 2013.
In 2017 Kovalchuk purchased the century-old Novy Svet vineyard in the Crimean Peninsula for $26.4 million in one of the first privatization deals in the region since the annexation of the region by Russia.
In 2015 Yury Kovalchuk's National Media Group (NMG) and US Discovery channel joined forces to form Media Alliance of which NMG owns 80% . Later that year, Kovalchuk acquired the rights to Ted Turner’s Russian assets including the Russian version of CNN, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. The reason for the sale was based on the Russian media ownership law that limits ownership of Russian media by foreigners.
Kovalchuk was one of several individuals sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department on 20 March 2014 in response to the 2014 Crimean crisis. According to the U.S. Treasury, Kovalchuk is a close advisor to President Putin and has been referred to as one of his “cashiers.”
Since the early 1990s Kovalchuk has owned a dacha in Solovyovka in the Priozersky District of the Leningrad region, located on the eastern shore of the Komsomolskoye lake on the Karelian Isthmus near St. Petersburg. His neighbours there are Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Yakunin, Andrei Fursenko, Sergey Fursenko, Viktor Myachin, Vladimir Smirnov and Nikolay Shamalov. Together they instituted the co-operative society Ozero (the Lake) which united their properties on 10 November 1996. [1]
From 1987 to 1991 he was the first deputy director of Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute. Since 2004 he has been chair of Rossiya Bank and its largest shareholder.
Yury Valentinovich Kovalchuk (Russian: Юрий Валентинович Ковальчук , born 25 July 1951) is a Russian billionaire businessman and financier who is "reputed to be Vladimir Putin's personal banker". The May 2008 issue of Russian Forbes listed him for the first time in its Golden Hundred of Russia's richest, calling him and another new entrant to the List, Gennady Timchenko, "good acquaintances of Vladimir Putin." The magazine placed him at number 53 on the Russians-only list, with an estimated fortune of $1.9 billion. After sanctions imposed on Kovalchuk in 2018, this dropped to $650 million.