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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
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