Roman Avdeev Net Worth

Roman Avdeev has an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Roman Avdeev profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is down from a peak of $1.8 billion.

Roman Avdeev is a Russian businessman, investor and philanthropist who made his fortune as the owner of Credit Bank of Moscow, one of Russia's largest banks by assets. He was born in 1967 in Odintsovo, in the Moscow region.

In 1984 he enrolled at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, but after two years he was drafted into the army. He later graduated in construction engineering from Lipetsk State Technical University in 1996 and completed a banking course at the Moscow International University of Business and Management in 1999.

Avdeev is best known outside business for his family. He has 23 children, 19 of them adopted. He began adopting orphans in 2002, and in 2014 he founded the charity Arithmetic of Good, which helps Russian orphans and adoptive families; by September 2018 it supported over 1,000 orphans. He is also an adventurer who climbed to Antarctica's highest point in 2009, and in 2017 he became co-owner of the football club Torpedo Moscow.

How Roman Avdeev made his money

His first business, in the late 1980s, sold radio components and decoders for TV sets, and he imported computer equipment into Russia. In 1994 he bought Credit Bank of Moscow after answering a newspaper ad, and he made a fortune from the bank's cash handling business in the 1990s.

He later spread into many industries. In 2006 he set up the Rossium holding company to consolidate his assets, which came to include the 36.6 pharmacy chain and businesses in construction, timber and oil. In 2014 his holding Garden Hills took over more than 98% of drugmaker Veropharm, and he then sold it to Abbott. In 2016 he bought the OPIN development group from Mikhail Prokhorov. In 2024 he sold all his assets, including Credit Bank of Moscow, to his partner Sergei Sudarikov, and said he no longer held any assets in Russia and would spend more time with his children.

How Forbes has valued Roman Avdeev

Forbes valued Avdeev at $1.3 billion in 2017, $1.7 billion in 2018 and $1.5 billion in 2019. His figure rose to $1.8 billion in 2021.

It was $1.3 billion in 2023 and $1.2 billion in 2024, then $1.3 billion in 2025 and on the 2026 World's Billionaires List. As of October 20, 2026, the Forbes real-time billionaires tracker also showed $1.3 billion, reflecting a fortune now held mostly as the proceeds of his 2024 sale.