The wealth of the richest businessmen in Russia has increased by $22.547 billion since the beginning of the year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is calculated, in particular, based on the value of companies' shares.

As per the aforesaid index, Vladimir Potanin, the president of Nornickel company, has gained $3.82 billion since the beginning of the year, and he is currently worth $31.7 billion.

Alisher Usmanov, a shareholder of Russia's largest iron ore producer Metalloinvest, has increased his wealth by $3.7 billion—to $16.9 billion.

But the one who has lost the most was Russian businessman and owner of Monaco football club Dmitry Rybolovlev, whose wealth fell by $1.77 billion—to $9.21 billion.