Timur Turlov — businessman with roots in the USSR
Timur Turlov is a Russian-born Kazakhstani billionaire who founded Freedom Holding Corp — a NASDAQ-listed brokerage and financial services company operating across the former Soviet Union and beyond. Born in Moscow in 1987, he started trading securities as a teenager and relocated to Kazakhstan, obtaining citizenship there and building Freedom into one of the region's most significant financial institutions.
Tracing the roots — Moscow (Russia)
Born in Moscow in 1987, Turlov is one of the youngest self-made billionaires from Russia's post-Soviet generation. His relocation to Kazakhstan and acquisition of Kazakhstani citizenship reflects a strategic repositioning away from Russia's financial system — a move that gained urgency after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine disrupted Russian financial markets.
Moscow (Russia). At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.