Nikolai Tsvetkov (Russian: Николай Цветков; born May 12, 1960
) is a
Russian oligarch
Russian oligarchs () are business oligarchs of the former Soviet republics who rapidly accumulated wealth in the 1990s via the Russian privatisation that followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The failing Soviet state left the ownership ...
, the founder and president of
Nikoil Financial, Chairman of the Board of Directors of FC Uralsib. , with a wealth of $1.8 billion, he was the world's
397th-richest person.
Nikolay was born in Novobrattsevsky settlement,
Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populate ...
.
He is a graduate of the
Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy () – is a higher military educational institution for training and retraining of engineers for the Russian Aerospace Forces.
The academy trains specialists – engineers, research engineers in the fol ...
in 1988. As an army officer, he served in Tambov, Moscow, and Russia's far east and fought in Afghanistan. Tsvetkov attained the rank of lieutenant colonel, before he retired, founding the brokerage firm Brokinvest. His obscure company became the investment and financial adviser to
Lukoil (then a state-controlled concern) by offering a co-ownership to its president
Vagit Alekperov
Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov (, ; born 1 September 1950) is a Russian businessman of Azerbaijani origin and an oligarch. He was the President of the oil company Lukoil from 1993 until 2022.
As of March 2025, according to the ''Forbes'' magaz ...
, and profited immensely from the voucher privatization scheme of Russia's state-owned companies in the mid-1990s.
In 2002 he bought the
Imperial Porcelain Factory for his wife. In the same year he acquired Deshoulieres porcelain manufacturer in
France
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.
Opened a chain of organic food stores "Bio-Market" (Russian: «Био-Маркет»).
Charity
He owns the Victoria Charitable Foundation, which in 2014 completed the construction of the Victoria Children's Village in Armavir for orphaned children. The total cost of the project was 380 million rubles.
Family
His wife is Galina Tsvetkova (a shareholder of the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory). Daughters Victoria and Julia.
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Living people
1959 births
Russian billionaires
Soviet Army officers
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