In June 2001 Forbes claimed that Bogdanov was the third wealthiest Russian with $1.6 billion. He has been a member of the Khanty-Mansi legislature since 1996.[ citation needed]
Vladimir Bogdanov was born in 1937, in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg today). In 1969, he moved to Moscow. Between 1960 and 1976, he worked for the Komsomolsk...