02.05.1956 (68 gadi) (Moscow, USSR (Russia))
Leonid Lebedev (born May 2, 1956) is a Cypriot-Russian billionaire businessman, and a former elected representative in Russia's Upper House of Parliament. Lebedev is sole owner of Sintez Group, a privately held energy, oil and gas and property development company with more than $1 billion in annual sales. In 1988 he co-founded the company, which according to Forbes Russia now ranks 154th among private companies in Russia.He has also been a businessman in music and film, serving as a producer, during the 1980s and more recently, in the creation of independent films such as Hipsters and The Geographer Drank His Globe Away. In 2002 he was elected to the Federation Council (Russia), Russia's Upper House of Parliament, representing the Republic of Chuvashia.