Russia's richest woman's life

Recently, many published in the British media to sour a message: in the UK real estate downturn is, a Russian woman to nearly 100 million dollars in price, bought the British area of ​​Buckingham Palace after the second-largest luxury buyer is not others, it is Russia's richest woman: Elena Batulinnuo (Elena Baturina).
For Irina, the purchase of this building have stayed off the Queen Elizabeth luxury is nothing new, generous is her usual style. Recently she again targeting the African continent, in Morocco, nearly $ 500 million investment in the construction of golf courses and villas, no wonder the media she commented that "Russia's most powerful women." In the "Forbes" named Russian billionaire in 2007, Eleanor was the only woman, but, like other wealthy Russian men, her family history but also by the personal struggle, a turbulent period and together they created a unique opportunity of. Although she was a woman, but not inferior to men with a strong heart and grim faces, even the mayor of Moscow, her husband, who admitted that his toe for her because "she is most at home who can make money." Elena is the daughter of an ordinary worker's family in 1987 after graduating from college when he was assigned to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov as a secretary. The end of 1989, Luzhkov's wife died of liver cancer patients. Two years later, on 25-year-old and 55-year-old Jelena Luzhkov formed a new family. Irina married restless wife is not at home when the mayor, but loans from $ 210,000 to do a homegrown Liang Yi Plastic company. Although at first no one is interested, but her brains developed a plastic cutlery, furniture and other new products, the business quickly turning point. In 1992 was elected Mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, the Moscow, she received the largest contract manufacturing stadium seats 85,000 large orders. Relying on the plastic products industry to the pot of gold digging, she continued to invest in cement, food processing and real estate industries, greater and greater influence. She is currently wholly owned by McNair Branch worth $ 4.2 billion company, and her personal assets reached $ 1.3 billion.