The wife of the former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Elena Baturina, continues to be the richest Russian woman. According to the rating of the richest women of Russia according to Forbes magazine published on Tuesday, Baturina's fortune today is one billion dollars. Although over the past year, businesswoman's incomes have decreased by $ 100 million, it is impossible to get ahead of her in the list of Russia's richest women for all 12 years of the rating's existence.

After the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov, Baturina sold its main asset, Inteko, and transferred it in 2011. Your business abroad. Currently, her empire consists of a network of hotels (Ireland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Russia), as well as various high-tech and development projects in the US and the European Union.

The second richest Russian Forbes recognized Elena Rybolovlev, who after divorce from businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev became owner of a fortune of $ 600 million and two houses in Switzerland.

In third place, the chairman of the board of directors of the S7 group (Siberia Airlines and Globus), Natalia Fileva, whose fortune is estimated at $ 600 million.

The fourth place in the rating is Olga Belyavtseva, a member of the Board of Directors of Progress-Capital, with a fortune of $ 450 million. Closing the top five leaders of the online store Wildberries Tatiana Bakalchuk with a capital of $ 420 million.

Among the new participants rating - the wife of the former governor of the Tula region Olga Gruzdev, the daughter of billionaire Gennady Timchenko and daughter-general director of "Sovcomflot" Xenia Frank, the widow of the founder of Industrial Metallurgical Holding Galina Zubitsky, the wife of the president of "Lukoil" Larissa Alekperov, the wife of the head of Tatarstan Gulsina Minnikhanov and one of the top managers in the team billionaire Roman Abramovich, Irina Panchenko.

By the way, Gulsina Minnikhanova topped the rating of the richest wives of officials in 2016.

Total in the ranking of wealthy Russians by the end of 2016. There are 25 women with a total volume of $ 7.3 billion. It is noted that over the past year they managed to increase their wealth by 25%.