Wikipedia's first sentence called it “former scientist who became an industrial magnate as head of evrazholding”. Today it says “russian businessperson”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Russian former scientist”. It now reads “Russian billionaire businessman”.
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Russian billionaire businessman For the Russian general, see Alexander Konstantinovich Abramov . Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov ( Russian : Александр Григорьевич Абрамов , born 20 February 1959) is a Russian businessperson, who until March 2022 was the Chairman of the Board of directors of Evraz , one of Russia's largest steel producers. Since 1998, he has amassed one of the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employed 71,591 people around the world, with steel output of 13,57 million tones and turnover of $14,1 billion in 2021, leading to him be widely considered a Russian oligarch . A business partner and ally of Aleksandr Frolov and Roman Abramovich , Abramov was in June 2021 listed by Forbes as having an estimated net worth of $8.0 billion. "CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD" . investegate.co.uk . Forbes - The World's Billionaires .
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Alexander Abramov (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Абрамов ) (born 1959 ) is a former scientist who became an industrial magnate as head of EvrazHolding , Russia 's largest steel producer. Beginning in 1998, he has amassed the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employs 125,000 people, controls about 22 percent of the country's total steel output and has an annual turnover of $20 billion. Abramov was listed on the Forbes list of billionaires for 2007 with an estimated net worth of $5.6 billion.
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Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Абрамов ) (born 1959) is a former scientist who became an industrial magnate as one of the two heads of Evraz , Russia's largest steel producer. Beginning in 1998, he has amassed the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employs 125,000 people, controls about 22 percent of the country's total steel output and has an annual turnover of $20 billion. A business partner and ally of Alexander Frolov and Roman Abramovich , Abramov was in March 2015 listed by Forbes as having an estimated net worth of $4.3 billion.
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Russian former scientist For the Russian general, see Alexander Konstantinovich Abramov . Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Абрамов , born 1959) is a Russian former scientist who became an industrial magnate as one of the two heads of Evraz , Russia's largest steel producer. Beginning in 1998, at one point he had amassed the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employed 125,000 people, controlling about 22 percent of the country's total steel output with an annual turnover of $20 billion.A business partner and ally of Aleksandr Frolov and Roman Abramovich , Abramov was in January 2020 listed by Forbes as having an estimated net worth of $6.1 billion.
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Russian billionaire businessman For the Russian general, see Alexander Konstantinovich Abramov .Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov (Russian: Александр Григорьевич Абрамов , born 1959) is a Russian businessperson, who until March 2022 was the Chairman of the Board of directors of Evraz , one of Russia's largest steel producers.Since 1998, he has amassed one of the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employed 71,591 people around the world, with steel output of 13,57 million tones and turnover of $14,1 billion in 2021, leading to him be widely considered a Russian oligarch .A business partner and ally of Aleksandr Frolov and Roman Abramovich , Abramov was in June 2021 listed by Forbes as having an estimated net worth of $8.0 billion."CHANGES IN THE COMPOSITION OF THE BOARD" . investegate.co.uk .Forbes - The World's Billionaires .
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former scientist who became an industrial magnate as head of evrazholding
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russian businessperson
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