Buchmann Igor Anatolyevich

Buchmann Igor Anatolyevich

Biography

2023: Creation of Rix Capital

At the end of April 2023, information appeared that the investment company of the billionaire brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhmanov Rix Capital was creating the first permanent office in London. Read more here.

2024: $30m London mansion purchase

In early February 2024, it became known about the purchase of a mansion in London by Igor Bukhman. A native of Vologda, who founded the mobile game company Playrix, spent about 24 pounds ($30 million) on om.

According to Bloomberg, acquired by Igor Buchman is in the Kensington area next to another billionaire mansion, which was bought in 2019 for about £45 million. By early February 2024, according to Bloomberg, Buchman is renovating both facilities, and the new house was bought back in 2023. A representative of the businessman declined to comment at the request of the publication.

Bloomberg

Kensington is a borough within the Borough (administrative district) of Kensington and Chelsea, occupying the western part of central London. It is one of London's most prestigious boroughs and is home to many high-end properties and the head offices of major companies. Wealthy foreigners spent more than £100m buying properties in London in 2023, with Kensington accounting for 11% of all deals worth more than £5m, according to brokerage Savills Plc.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which records the fortunes of the richest people on the planet in real time, Igor Bukhman's fortune is about $3.5 billion by early February 2024. After the start of a special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Bukhman brothers ceased activities in Russia and moved the Playrix headquarters to Ireland.

Immigrants from Vologda are asked not to call them Russian billionaires. By the beginning of February 2024 Forbes , the brothers have citizenship on the magazine's website in the column. Israel The Bukhman brothers in the ranking of Russian billionaires Forbes by the beginning of 2024 occupy 22nd and 23rd places with fortunes of $7 billion.^[1]

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