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Economics & Business

Len Blavatnik

Who

Len Blavatnik · Economics & Business

What

Founder of Access Industries

When

1957, Odessa, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)

Where

Soviet Union/Ukraine · United States · United Kingdom

Biography

Len Blavatnik is recognized among Jewish contributors to Economics & Business — Founder of Access Industries

How & why

Len Blavatnik is a businessman and investor who founded Access Industries, a private holding company with interests in natural resources, media, telecoms and chemicals. He became one of the world's wealthiest people and a major philanthropist funding scientific and cultural institutions. He is Jewish, born to a Jewish family in Soviet Odessa before emigrating.

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Source: Forbes Billionaire 2025

Contributions & Sources

Founder of Access Industries

1986

Source: Forbes Billionaire 2025