Alisher Usmanov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alisher Usmanov

Uzbek-born Russian business magnate

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1953

Place of Birth: Chust, Namangan Region, Uzbekistan

Profession: businessperson, entrepreneur, investor, functionary, patron of the arts

Nationality: United Kingdom, Russia, Uzbekistan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (Russian: ?????´? ?????´????? ????´???; Uzbek: Alisher Usmonov; born 9 September 1953) is an Uzbek-born Russian business magnate.
As reported by Forbes in 2019, Alisher Usmanov has an estimated net worth of $13.0 billion.Usmanov built his wealth through metal and mining operations, and investments, and is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which consolidated in 2006 JSC Metalloinvest's assets (the Mikhailovsky GOK and the Ural Steel) with those of Gazmetall JSC (the Lebedinsky GOK and the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant).He owns the Kommersant publishing house.
He is also a co-owner of Russia's second-largest mobile telephone operator, MegaFon, and co-owner of the Mail.Ru group, the largest internet company in the Russian-speaking world, which owns stakes in popular web portals like Odnoklassniki, VKontakte and others.
Usmanov is the largest investor of Digital Sky Technologies ("DST") funds, and holds shares in a number of international technology companies.
Usmanov eventually teamed with Yuri Milner.He is also the president of the FIE, the international governing body of fencing, and he has invested in fencing programs and fencing development around the globe.In February 2008, his Metalloinvest also became sponsor of Dinamo Moscow, a football team in Russia's capital.
His Metalloinvest group's name replaced the Xerox Corporation's on its players' shirts as part of the $7 million deal.