Vladimir Lisin is Russia's richest man

Russian billionaire Vladimir Lisin now is the richest person in Russia with a total of $24 billion dollars thanks to soaring value of his publicly traded firm, Novolipetsk Steel.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Vladimir Lisin is a Russian success story. He got majority stake in Russia's giant Novolipetsk steel mill as his share. He constructed one of the largest shooting-range complexes in Europe's Lisya Nora, which is close to Moscow.

Also Lisin publishes the loss-making newspaper Gazeta. Lisin In parallel with his main activity, bought out shares in several sea ports, shipping and transportation companies, and united them into Universal Cargo Logistics Holding B.V. (UCL Holding), of which he is now the sole owner.

The billionaire is moving to invest in controlling natural resources worldwide and is teaming up with Albanian Minerals CEO Sahit Muja.

Albanian Minerals is a mining and trading company in NY, US, China, India, Europe, Turkey, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, Italy, Kosovo and Albania.