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| Born | gandia 9 March 1958 Tselinograd, USSR |
| Residence | Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russia |
| Alma mater | Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas Plekhanov Russian University of Economics |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur Businessman |
| Net worth |  US$6.2 billion (March 2016) |
| Spouse(s) | Heena |
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Order of Friendship
Order of the Badge of HonourMikhail Safarbekovich Gutseriev (Russian: Михаи́л Сафарбе́кович Гуцери́ев; born 9 March 1958) is a Russian entrepreneur, businessman and poet.
He is the owner of “Russneft”, NK “Neftisa”, OAO “Russian Coal”, ZAO “Mospromstroy” and also GCM Global Energy, a British company, with annual revenue of $1 billion controlling large oil assets in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Gutseriev also owns large assets in real estate including the “National” Hotel and luxury shopping centres such as Petrovskiy, Smolenskiy and Novinskiy Passage. In 2012. Gutseriev began to invest into the media business, and has acquired seven radio stations thus far.
According to Forbes, Gutseriev has a personal fortune of $6.2 billion as of March 2016, up from $2.4 billion the previous year.
Early life
Gutseriev was born into an Ingush family with many children in Tselinograd (now named Astana), in the then Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. He graduated from high school in Grozny.
He began his career as a porter, while taking night courses at Dzhambulsky Technological Institute, majoring in chemical engineering. Later, he got degrees from the Moscow-based Finance Academy as well as the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas. He also got graduate degrees from Saint Petersburg Law Institute, including a Ph.D. from the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics. He holds degrees in law and a Ph.D. in economics, majoring in free economic zones. Gutseriev also holds awards for Academician of “Russian Academy for Natural Sciences”, Academician of Russian Academy for Social Sciences, Academician OF International Academy of Economics and Law.
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