Leonid Lebedev

Leonid Lebedev (born May 2, 1956) is a Cypriot-Russian businessman, and a former elected representative in Russia's Upper House of Parliament.

Lebedev is the former sole owner of Sintez Group, a privately held energy, oil and gas and property development company. In 1988 he co-founded the company, which he left in the early 2000s. According to ''Forbes Russia'' Sintez ranked 154th among private companies in Russia in 2012. According to Forbes, Leonid Lebedev is listed at position 162 with $750 million in 2021.

He has also been a businessman in music and film, serving as a producer, during the 1980s and more recently, in creating independent films such as ''Hipsters'' and ''The Geographer Drank His Globe Away''.

In 2002, he was elected to the Federation Council (Russia), Russia's Upper House of Parliament, representing the Republic of Chuvashia until he retired form politics in 2015. Provided by Wikipedia