Anatoly Skurov Net Worth

Anatoly Skurov has an estimated net worth of $1.1 billion, according to Forbes Real-Time Billionaires, Anatoly Skurov profile (figures as of October 20, 2026). That is down from a peak of $2.3 billion.

Anatoly Skurov is a Russian mining engineer, scientist and entrepreneur who made his fortune in coal and fertilizers. He was born on 7 December 1952 in the Tula region and lives in Moscow. Forbes describes him as self-made.

He graduated from the mining department of the Tula Polytechnic Institute in 1975 and went to work at the Kopeisk Engineering Plant in the Chelyabinsk region, a major maker of underground mining machines. In 1988 he became its chief technical designer and head of its design bureau. He helped design the GPKS, one of the most widely used continuous heading machines in the Soviet Union and Russia.

He holds 41 patents and inventor's certificates for coal mining inventions and defended a PhD thesis in 1991 on efficient mining equipment. He is an Honorary Miner of Kuzbass and a full member of the Russian Academy of Mining Science. He is married to Lubov Skurova and has two sons.

Few billionaires have his technical record. He spent nearly two decades designing mining machines before he ever ran a company.

How Anatoly Skurov made his money

In 1994 Skurov moved to Rosugol, the state-owned coal producer, as a senior designer, and took part in the reform of the Russian coal industry. That gave him a close view of an industry that was being opened to private owners.

In 1995 he cofounded the private coal producer Sibuglemet with partners including Valentin Bukhtoyarov. He served as its general director until 2003, then became president of Sibuglemet Holding. He also held a stake in the potash fertilizer maker Uralkali from 2011.

In 2013 he sold his shares in both Sibuglemet Holding and Uralkali, and Forbes says the proceeds of those sales are the source of his fortune. He did not leave coal behind, however. In 2017 he started the Uvalnaya coal mining project, which produces more than 6 million tons of coal a year.

How Forbes has valued Anatoly Skurov

Forbes valued Skurov at $2.3 billion in 2011, then $1.8 billion in 2012 and $1.7 billion in 2013, the year he sold his stakes. He then dropped off the global list for more than a decade.

He returned in 2025 at $1.1 billion and held that figure on the 2026 World's Billionaires List. As of October 20, 2026, the Forbes real-time billionaires tracker also showed $1.1 billion.