Alexander Ponomarenko
Moscow, Russia
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Simferopol State University | Master of Science, Russian State Academy of Management
Russia
real estate, airport, Self Made
$3,200,000,000
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#691 Billionaires 2019
Alexander Ponomarenko is chairman of the board of Sheremetyevo, the biggest airport in Russia.Ponomarenko and partner Alexander Skorobogatko started out with sea ports and banking and then moved into airport construction.In 2013 the two, with Arkady Rotenberg, a judo partner of President Vladimir Putin, won a tender to develop Sheremetyevo, the state-owned airport.The partners and Rotenberg also founded TPS Real Estate, which owns more than half of the real estate in Ocean Plaza, Kiev's biggest shopping center.The two Alexanders first set up a small perfume factory in the Ukraine and then founded a bank in Moscow.
In 2011 Ponomarenko paid a reported $350 million for a complex of several buildings and land near the Black Sea known as Putin's Palace.
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