German Khan — businessman with roots in the USSR
German Khan is a Ukrainian-born Israeli-Russian billionaire who co-founded Alfa Group Consortium alongside Mikhail Fridman — one of Russia's most powerful conglomerates spanning banking (Alfa-Bank), oil (TNK-BP), telecoms (Vimpelcom), and retail. He holds Israeli citizenship and relocated following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Tracing the roots — Kyiv (Ukraine)
Born in Kyiv in 1961 and educated as an engineer, Khan joined Fridman in building Alfa Group from a Soviet cooperative into a diversified empire. The Kyiv-born Jewish background he shares with Fridman and Aven is a defining thread of Alfa Group's founding generation — post-Soviet entrepreneurs shaped by the Jewish intellectual culture of the Russian Empire's Ukrainian heartland.
Kyiv (Ukraine). At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.