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Born in industrial Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Turchynov served as secretary of a district committee of the Komsomol in his native city. By 1990 he was head of the agitation and propaganda division of the Komosomol in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

ALISHER USMANOV Born: September 1953

Born in the town of Chust in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, he became a Komsomol member in 1966, at age 13. In 1981 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and he made his first fortune making plastic bags.

SERGEI KIRIYENKOEndFragment              Born: July 1962    

SALMAN RADUYEVEndFragment      Born: February 1967EndFragment    

Born in Georgia's Abkhazia region to a father named Vladilen, after Vladimir I. Lenin, Kiriyenko was was secretary of the Komsomol at a shipbuilder in Nizhny Novgorod from 1986 to 1991, the year the Soviet Union fell apart. . 

Born in what was then the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic, Raduyev rose swiftly in the ranks of the Communist Youth League in the 1980s, becoming the Komsomol leader for the whole republic. Served in the Soviet Army in 1985-1987.

MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKYEndFragment          Born: June 1963EndFragment    

Born in Moscow, Khodorkovsky became deputy head of the Komsomol at the prestigious Mendeleev Moscow Institute of Chemistry and Technology, from which he graduated in 1986 with a degree in chemical engineering.

Usmanov owns stakes in metals, telecoms, and Internet companies as well as the British soccer club Arsenal. According to Forbes magazine's 2015 ranking, he is Russia's third-richest man, with a fortune estimated at $14.4 billion, and the world's 71st richest person.

Born in the town of Chust in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, he became a Komsomol member in 1966, at age 13. In 1981 he became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and he made his first fortune making plastic bags later in the 1980s.

The eccentric Raduyev later became a Chechen separatist warlord, and led a major hostage-taking raid in 1996. He was arrested in 2000 and died in a Russian prison in 2002, at the age of 35. Russian authorities denied separatist claims that he was beaten to death.

Khodorkovsky became an oil tycoon and Russia's richest person. He was arrested in 2003, and spent over 10 years in prison on financial crimes charges that supporters said were trumped up, before he was pardoned by President Putin in 2013 and left Russia.

Turchynov became acting president of Ukraine in February 2014, after President Viktor Yanukovych's ouster, and served until Petro Poroshenko took office that June. He is now secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council.

Kiriyenko served as the youngest prime minister in Russia's history, at age 35, five months in 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin. He has been head of Russia's state-run nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, since 2005.  

Kiriyenko served as the youngest prime minister in Russia's history, at age 35, five months in 1998 under President Boris Yeltsin. He has been head of Russia's state-run nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, since 2005. 

Born in what was then the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic, Raduyev rose in the ranks of the Communist Youth League in the 1980s, becoming the Komsomol leader for the whole republic. Served in the Soviet Army in 1985-1987.

SERGEI KIRIYENKO

Born in the town of Chust in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, he became a Komsomol member in 1966, at age 13. In 1981 he became a member of the Communist Party, and he made his first fortune making plastic bags later in the 1980s.

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