Oleg Tinkov

Quick Facts

Full Name	Oleg Tinkov
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Date Of Birth	Dec 25, 1967(1967-12-25)
Age	57
Birthplace	Polysayevo
Country	Russia
Birth City	Kemerovo Oblast
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Oleg Tinkov Biography

Oleg Tinkov is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on December 25, 1967 in Polysayevo, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. A businessman has sold the brewery of his company to a Belgian business in exchange for EUR167 millions in the year 2005. A year later He founded the world’s largest credit card firm Tinkoff Credit Systems.

The most famous racer who has competed in the Saxo-Tinkoff race team are Spanish athlete Among those who have raced for his Saxo-Tinkoff racing team is Spanish cyclist Alberto Cantador..

In 1988, Oleg Tinkoff entered the Mining Institute. Institution with a large number of foreign students offered great opportunities for trade. Oleg traded on jeans, cosmetics and perfumery, caviar and vodka. He sold goods from St. Petersburg in Siberia, and from there he brought Japanese household appliances purchased from the miners. He brought electrical appliances to Poland and got back from there with office equipment and supplies, gas cartridges and guns.

In 1992, Oleg Tinkoff began wholesale electronics trade from Singapore and to simplify the registration of documents he registered a limited liability partnership Petrosib in St. Petersburg, and then regional companies Petrosib- Kemerovo, Petrosib-Novosibirsk and Petrosib-Omsk and others. Goods arrived in St. Petersburg and from there went to the regions, where they were sold with a larger markup. He started with calculators and went on to the office equipment, televisions, VCRs and even artificial flowers and trees. In the beginning, Oleg himself flew to Singapore, then began to use air transport, but the turning point came when an Indian dealer Ashok Vasmani shipped him half container TVs on credit. Tinkoff went on to container transportation.

He was married to a woman named Rina and has three children who are named Daria, Roman and Paul.

Oleg Tinkov Net Worth

Oleg Tinkov is one of the richest Entrepreneur from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Oleg Tinkov 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a mining engineer, but he quit school in the 1980’s to establish the electronics company Technoshock.

He was a major patron of the elite cycling squad, known by the name of Team Saxo-Tinkoff.

Oleg Tinkov (Russian: Олег Юрьевич Тиньков ; born 25 December 1967) is a Russian entrepreneur and cycling sponsor. According to Forbes, in 2014 he was ranked 1210 in the list of the wealthiest people in the world, on the list of the richest businessmen in Russia in 2016 he was ranked 79 with a fortune of $1.2 billion.

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Who is Oleg Tinkov Dating?

According to our records, Oleg Tinkov married to Rina Tinkova. As of December 1, 2023, Oleg Tinkov’s is not dating anyone.

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The initial investment amounted to one million Deutschmarks, and in August 1998 the first restaurant was opened in St. Petersburg on Kazanskaya street,

7. There soon appeared a line for beer in bottles. In 2001 the restaurant was opened in Moscow in Protochny lane, the investment in which amounted to $2 million. The restaurant was opened in Samara in November 2002, in Novosibirsk – in January 2003, then there were restaurants in Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok and Sochi.

Facts & Trivia

Oleg Ranked on the list of most popular Entrepreneur. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Oleg Tinkov celebrates birthday on December 25 of every year.

In 1998 Music Shock was sold to the Moscow company Gala Records.

Top Facts about Oleg Tinkov

1. Oleg Tinkov is a Russian billionaire entrepreneur.
2. He founded Tinkoff Bank, Russia’s first online bank.
3. Tinkoff Bank has over 10 million customers.
4. In 2019, Forbes estimated his net worth at $2 billion.
5. Tinkov was diagnosed with leukemia in 2019.
6. He sold his stake in Tinkoff Bank to Yandex for $5.5 billion in 2020.
7. Tinkov owns the cycling team formerly known as Team Saxo-Tinkoff.
8. He has been involved in various legal disputes and controversies.
9. Tinkov is known for his extravagant lifestyle and love of luxury cars.
10. He currently resides in London, UK and Monaco.

What happened to Oleg Tinkov?

Tinkov was arrested on a U.S. federal tax evasion charge in March 2020 and settled the case with a $509 million payment in October 2021. He stepped down as chairman of Tinkoff Bank in April 2020 after revealing his cancer diagnosis.

How much is Oleg Tinkov worth?

In 2020 he announced the foundation of his own charity fund for leukemia sufferers. with $200 mln investment of his own money. Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimated his net worth at $8.2 billion in November 2021; Forbes estimated his net worth at $0.8 billion four months later.

How did Oleg Tinkov make his money?

Oleg Tinkov founded Tinkoff Bank in 2006. It is now one of the world’s largest online banks, with around 8 million customers in Russia. Before banking, he founded frozen food producer Daria, Tinkoff Beer and Tinkoff Restaurants. Tinkov sold his brewery business to InBev in 2005 and started the bank the next year.

What happened to Tinkoff?

In a December 2015 interview, Tinkov announced that he would sell the team at the end of the 2016 season , citing on the one hand a business decision to redirect Tinkoff Bank’s marketing budget from sports sponsorship to TV advertising from 2017, and on the other a lack of support from other teams from his proposed …

Where is Tinkoff?

Tinkoff Bank (Russian: Тинькофф банк), formerly Tinkoff Credit Systems (Russian: Тинькофф Кредитные Системы) is a Russian commercial bank based in Moscow and founded by Oleg Tinkov in 2006. The bank does not have branches and is considered a neobank.