Andrei Bokarev

Andrei Bokarev runs Transmashholding, maker of rolling stock for railways and subway systems. In 1998, two years after graduating from the Moscow Finance Institute, he met Iskander Makhmudov, who invited him to head Krutredag, which ran the export operations of the Kuzbassrazrezugol coal company. Since then he has been a minority partner in most of Makhmudov's projects, including not only Kuzbassrazrezugol but freight railway operator Transgroup; Aeroexpress, which handles passenger railway operations in the Moscow region and Transmashholding. An avid skier, he is president of the Russian Ski Sports Association and the Freestyle Federation of Russia.