Vasily Anisimov


Vasily V. Anisimov is a Russian billionaire businessman. In the 1990s, he owned banks and aluminium plants, sold everything in 2000, and is now a property developer.

Early life

Anisimov was born in Almaty, Kazakh SSR. Anisimov has a bachelor's degree from the Alma-Ata Institute of National Economy.

Career

From 1986 to 1989, he served as general director of a Moscow-based hardware wholesaler, Roskhoztorg. In the 1990s, he owned banks and aluminium plants - Metalloinvest. In 2000, after being sued by fellow Russian billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Anisimv liquidated most of his assets. By 2004 Anismimov re-emerged as a co-owner of Metalloinvest with fellow billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Andrei Skoch. From here he switched form Russian mines to realeste. His wealth comes from investments in Metalloinvest and his real estate company Coalco.
He is a friend of Arkady Rotenberg, and is the head of the Russian Judo Federation.
Anisimov is one of many "Russian oligarchs" named in the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, CAATSA, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017.

Personal life

Anisimov was married to Galina Anisimova, and has four children. Their daughter, Galina, was murdered with her husband, Alexander Nalimov, both found "bound and killed execution-style," in their Ekaterinburg home in 2000. Another daughter, Galina's half-sister, Anna Anisimova, is a socialite and ex-model who has been called the "Russian-American Paris Hilton".
He lives in Moscow, Russia, and sometimes in New York.