High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (born 9 September 1953, Chust, Namangan Province, Uzbek SSR, USSR) is an Uzbek-born Russian businessman. According to the 2011 edition of Forbes magazine, the oligarch is one of Russia`s richest men, with a fortune estimated at US$17.7 billion, and the world`s 35th richest person.