Sergey Shishkarev Net Worth

Sergey Shishkarev has an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Sergey Shishkarev profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is up from $1 billion in 2024.

Sergey Shishkarev is a Russian entrepreneur and former politician who founded Delo Group, one of Russia's largest transport and logistics companies. He was born on 2 February 1968 in Novorossiysk, the Black Sea port city where his company's main terminals sit. Forbes describes him as self-made.

He enrolled at the Minsk State Linguistic University in 1985 but was called up during his second year and served in the Northern Fleet Marine Corps. He then studied at the Military Red Banner Institute of the Ministry of Defence, graduating with honors in 1992 as an interpreter in Portuguese and Hungarian. He later earned a law doctorate in 2010 with a dissertation on fighting corruption, and he speaks English, Portuguese, Hungarian and Italian.

He served as a deputy in the State Duma for three convocations, from 1999 to 2011. He is also vice president of the Russian Olympic Committee and chairs the supreme council of the Handball Federation of Russia.

How Sergey Shishkarev made his money

Shishkarev started Delo in 1993 as a logistics and port management company. Its core asset is DeloPorts, which owns several terminals in the port of Novorossiysk, one of Russia's busiest gateways for trade.

Over the years Delo grew into a major domestic transport group with interests in sea terminals, rail cars and ships. In 2019 the state-owned conglomerate Rosatom bought a 30% stake in the company, and since then Shishkarev has made a string of mergers and acquisitions to expand it.

The biggest moves came in 2022. Delo bought the shipping company SASCO and acquired a stake in Global Ports, Russia's largest container operator, from Maersk. Those deals turned Delo into one of the main players in Russian container shipping just as Western companies were leaving the market.

How Forbes has valued Sergey Shishkarev

Forbes first counted Shishkarev as a billionaire in 2024, at $1 billion. His figure rose to $1.4 billion in 2025 and to $1.7 billion on the 2026 World's Billionaires List.

As of October 20, 2026, the Forbes real-time billionaires tracker also showed $1.7 billion. His rise on the list has tracked Delo's expansion, as the deals of 2022 made the group bigger and more valuable. He remains the company's founder and chairman of its board.