Igor Kolomoisky — businessman with roots in the USSR
Igor Kolomoisky is a Ukrainian-Israeli-Cypriot billionaire who co-founded PrivatBank — Ukraine's largest bank — and built a diversified business empire through Privat Group. He financed pro-Ukrainian volunteer battalions during Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, but was later investigated for alleged fraud after PrivatBank's nationalisation.
Tracing the roots — Dnipro (Ukraine)
Born in Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro, Ukraine) in 1963, Kolomoisky built his fortune in the chaotic post-Soviet Ukrainian business world. His Jewish heritage, Israeli citizenship, and role in financing Ukraine's resistance to Russia make him one of the most complex figures in the Russian Empire's diaspora story — simultaneously a product of Soviet Ukraine and a financier of its independence.
Dnipro (Ukraine). At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.