Wildberries CEO Tatyana Kim still tops Forbes’ list of Russia’s richest women, despite losing $2 billion amid Ukrainian strikes on the company’s warehouses
Forbes Russia magazine has published a new ranking of Russia’s richest women, and their combined fortune has declined sharply compared with last year, falling from $25.75 billion in 2025 to $18.95 billion this year — a drop of $6.8 billion.
Tatyana Kim, founder of Wildberries, topped the ranking for the fifth time, though her fortune fell by more than $2 billion over the past year, from an estimated $7.1 billion to $5 billion. Forbes Russia attributed the decline to falling stock prices and Ukrainian drone strikes on the marketplace’s warehouses.
Five women dropped off the list of billionaires: Tatyana Volodina, co-owner of the L’Etoile and Podruzhka retail chains; Natalya Lutsenko, co-owner of the agricultural holding company Sodruzhestvo; Viktoria Mikhelson, owner of the GES-2 House of Culture; Lidia Sulteeva, co-owner of the Vulkan company; and Tatyana Litvinenko, a former shareholder of PhosAgro.
The number of female billionaires in Russia fell from nine to four over the past year. Along with Kim, the remaining billionaires are Elena Baturina, president of Inteco Management; Lyudmila Kogan, principal shareholder of Uralsib bank; and Ekaterina Fedun, daughter of Leonid Fedun, a former co-owner of Lukoil.
Larisa Prokopyeva, founder of Evalar, Russia’s largest dietary supplement manufacturer, returned to the ranking with an estimated fortune of $450 million. She had last appeared on the list of Russia’s richest women in 2021.
Forbes Russia said the ranking includes no newcomers for the first time, attributing this to falling share prices on the Moscow Exchange and a slowdown in the economy’s consumer sectors driven by the Central Bank’s high interest rate.
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