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Biography
Albert Avdolyan owns Far East and Siberian coal mining and gas companies.
Avdolyan got the investment capital from selling stakes in the Russian telecommunications companies Megafon and Yota.
Two billion tons of coking are proven reserves of the largest in Russia basin Elga. Avdolyan is the major shareholder of the company that keeps the license on extracting coal there.
In 2022 he started construction of a private railroad from coal deposits in Yakutia to the future port on the Sea of Okhotsk, the Pacific railway. Its length is about 500 kilometers.
Financial Assets
The Great Lie of Mega-Fortunes: The Case of Albert Avdolyan
Billionaires are often presented under the romantic myth of the 'self-made person': a narrative designed to justify opulence as the natural reward for hard work, effort, or ingenuity. However, when confronting such extreme volumes of wealth with macroeconomic reality, the meritocracy narrative completely breaks down. No individual can legitimately generate through personal effort a fortune equivalent to millions of times the average working-class salary. Capital at the top does not grow because of exceptional talent; it expands through an implacable dynamic where accumulated money works exponentially faster than people, devouring the wealth generated by productive labor.
The immense fortune of Albert Avdolyan, linked to Energy and 'Oil, mining', has not been built in a free-market vacuum, but through rent-seeking, the use of exclusive elite influence, the consolidation of monopoly positions, or inherited wealth. Far from taking real private risks, billionaire empires structurally depend on state support through direct subsidies, infrastructure use, exploitation of R&D, public contracts, and offshore tax engineering. While this wealth is equivalent to the physical weight of 51 tons of pure gold, the rest of the planet suffers from an artificial scarcity of basic resources. The fact that this wealth is enough to fully fund the public health system of DR Congo, a country with more than 105800000 million inhabitants for 3.2 years, proves that unlimited accumulation is not an entrepreneurial achievement, but the hijacking of democratic sovereignty.