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Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (; (ウズベク語:''Alisher Usmonov''); born 9 September 1953) 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bloomberg Billionaires Index )〕 In May 2014, ''The Sunday Times'' listed him as the second richest person in the UK with an estimated fortune of £10.65bn. 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 (the Mikhailovsky GOK and the Ural Steel) with those of Gazmetall JSC (the Lebedinsky GOK and the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant).〔(Metalloinvest History )〕 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,〔(Mail.Ru Group: Main ). Corp.mail.ru. Retrieved on 18 December 2012.〕 which owns stakes in popular web portals like Odnoklassniki, Vkontakte and others. Usmanov is the largest investor of Digital Sky Technologies ("DST") 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.〔Russian Capitalist Wiki contributors, ("Alisher Usmanov" ). Russian Capitalist Wiki. Retrieved 19 March 2014.〕 He is also a shareholder in Arsenal Football Club.〔(''Arsenal stakeholder aims to boost share'' ), Russia Today TV, TV Novosti, Moscow, 9 January 2007. Retrieved: 4 June 2008.〕 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.〔(''Usmanov Funds Dynamo Moscow'' ), Sports, ''Moscow News Weekly'' (28 February 2008). Accessed 16 April 2008. 〕 == Brief biography == Usmanov was born in Uzbekistan in a provincial town of Chust but spent his childhood in the capital Tashkent where his father was a state prosecutor. Planning to pursue a career of a diplomat, he later moved to Moscow and joined Moscow State Institute of International Relations from which he graduated in 1976 with a degree in international law.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Alisher Usmanov – founder of Metalloinvest )〕 After graduating, Usmanov would return to Tashkent where he was appointed director of the Foreign Economic Association of the Soviet Peace Committee. He was arrested and convicted on fraud charges in Uzbek SSR in August 1980 and imprisoned for six years of an eight-year sentence.〔 This conviction was vacated in July 2000 by the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, when it ruled that "the original conviction was unjust, no crime was ever committed, and that the evidence was fabricated." Usmanov, who is Muslim, married Jewish Irina Viner, a top rhythmic gymnastics coach, in 1992. She is considered to be close to Putin, having introduced him to his current partner, one of her former gymnasts, Alina Kabaeva. Usmanov attended the Academy of Finance to study banking beginning in 1997.〔(Arsenal's oligarch takes on his friend Abramovich ), ''Daily Mail'' (31 August 2007). Retrieved 27 September 2007〕 Although Usmanov has no biological children, through his wife Irina Viner, Usmanov has a step-son, who has become a real-estate investor, currently constructing 30 real estate projects.〔(Наследник Алишера Усманова застроит «Новую Москву» ) 22 March 2012, Редакция ГдеЭтотДом.РУ〕 Usmanov is a close personal friend of Roman Abramovich, who owns Chelsea Football Club (Usmanov has a 30% stake in Arsenal Football club), and the two shared the same circle of friends in Russia (Usmanov even employed Abramovich's first wife Olga to work for his company).〔(Arsenal's oligarch takes on his friend Abramovich ) Daily Mail〕 Usmanov owns sprawling Sutton Place, Surrey, the former home of J. Paul Getty, in addition to a £48 million London mansion. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alisher Usmanov」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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