Mikhail Fridman

Russian–Israeli businessman, billionaire, and oligarch

Mikhail Fridman belongs to the record of technology as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.

The record lists Mikhail Fridman as Russian–Israeli businessman, billionaire, and oligarch.

Mikhail Fridman was born at Lviv in 1964. His recorded nationality is the Soviet Union. He was educated at National University of Science and Technology.

Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.

He worked as entrepreneur, banker and engineer.

Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.

His work was formally recognised with the Russian Federation Presidential Certificate of Gratitude.

That the work was done from the Soviet Union matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.

Mikhail Fridman is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.

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