birth_place name birth_date image article_title birth_name
chust union , namangan province , uzbek ssr , soviet alisher usmanov 09 september 1953 alisher_usmanov_podium_2013_fencing_wch_sms-in_t204812 . jpg alisher usmanov
 alisher burkhanovich usmanov
alisher usmanov

alisher burkhanovich usmanov -lrb- ; ; born 9 september 1953 -rrb- is an uzbek-born russian business magnate .
according to january 2015 forbes website data , the oligarch usmanov is russia 's richest man , with a fortune estimated at $ 14.7 billion , and the world 's 58th richest person .
according to the december 2013 bloomberg billionaires index , he has an estimated net worth of $ 19.6 billion , making him the 37th richest person in the world .
in may 2014 , `` the sunday times '' listed him as the second richest person in the uk with an estimated fortune of # 10.65 bn .
he 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 -lrb- the mikhailovsky gok and the ural steel -rrb- with those of gazmetall jsc -lrb- the lebedinsky gok and the oskol electrometallurgical plant -rrb- .
he owns the kommersant publishing houses .
he is 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 -lrb- `` dst '' -rrb- funds , and holds shares in a number of international technology companies .
usmanov is the president of the fie , the international governing body of fencing , and he has invested in fencing programs and fencing development around the globe .
he is also a shareholder in arsenal football club .
in february 2008 , his metalloinvest also became sponsor of dinamo moscow , the russian capital 's football team .
his metalloinvest group 's name replaced the xerox corporation 's on its players ' shirts as part of the $ 7 million deal .
