Dmitry Pumpyansky

Dmitry Pumpyansky got his start as a trader, then oversaw several metals plants in the Ural in the 1990s before taking over the Sinarsky Pipe Factory.Pumpyansky teamed up with fellow billionaires Sergei Popov and Andrei Melnichenko to acquire pipe conglomerate TMK, and then bought them out in 2006.Making pipes became the source of Pumpyansky's wealth. His TMK, a supplier to Gazprom since 1998, is No.1 in Russia. In 2011 Pumpyansky's JV with Siemens won a $2.7 billion contract from Russian Railways to deliver modern trains called Lastochka (swallow bird).His companies also gave a face lift to a stadium that hosted the 2018 World Cup in Ekaterinburg.