- Source of Wealth: Coal, Fertilizer
- Age: 49
- Birth Place: Gomel, Belarus
- Marital Status: Married (Aleksandra Melnichenko)
- Full Name: Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko
- Nationality: Russia
- Date of Birth: March 8, 1972
- Occupation: Businessman
- Education: Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow State University
- Children: 2
Russian businessman, Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko has a net worth of $13.7 billion in April 2019. The son of a respected Soviet physicist, Melnichenko excelled in his studies and entered the prestigious Mathematics & Physics Institute of Moscow State University. In 1991 communism fell and Melnichenko dropped out. Together with some schoolmates he started a tourism business, sold computers, established a chain of currency exchange booths; in 1993 he founded MDM Bank, which handled the accounts of oil tycoon Roman Abramovich and other businessmen. With fellow billionaire Sergei Popov, he began buying up assets, creating TMK, Russia’s largest pipe exporter; as well as Eurochem and SUEK. In 2006 the partners started splitting their business empire; Melnichenko kept Eurochem and a stake in SUEK. He is the owner of the $300-million megayacht “A”, which resembles a submarine.