 victor pinchuk (, victor mykhailovych pinchuk; born december 14, 1960) is a ukrainian businessman and philanthropist. in march 2012, forbes ranked him 255th on the list of the wealthiest people in the world, with a fortune of $4.2 billion.eight ukrainians make forbes magazine's list of world billionaires, kyiv post (8 march 2012) pinchuk is the founder and main owner of eastone group llc, an international investing, project funding and financial advisory company based in london, and of interpipe, one of ukraine's leading pipe, wheels and steel producers. pinchuk is the owner of four tv channels and a popular tabloid, fakty i kommentarii. he has been a member of the ukrainian parliament, the verkhovna rada, for two consecutive terms from 1998 to 2006. he is married to olena pinchuk, the daughter of former president of ukraine leonid kuchma. ==early life and career== pinchuk was born in 1960 in kyiv to jewish parents who moved to the industrial city of dnipropetrovsk. he graduated from dnipropetrovsk metallurgical institute in 1983, 7 years later he founded interpipe company on the basis of his patented innovations which were successfully adopted by leading metallurgical factories in the ussr. interpipe corporation, whose customers include gazprom and rosneft, is a major producer of seamless pipes and railway wheels. in 2004, interpipe became the first ukrainian company member of t
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