Oleg Tinkov

Oleg Tinkov
Tinkov at Tinkoff Bank office in January 2015
Born	Олег Юрьевич Тиньков (1967-12-25) 25 December 1967 (age 49) Polysayevo, Leninsk-Kuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region, USSR
Residence	Moscow
Occupation	Founder of Tinkoff Bank
Years active	1988–present
Net worth	US$0.5 billion (March 2016)
Spouse(s)	Rina Vosman (m. 1989)
Children	3

Oleg Tinkov (Russian: Олег Юрьевич Тиньков; born 25 December 1967) is a Russian entrepreneur and cycling sponsor. According to Forbes, in 2014 he was ranked 1210 in the list of the wealthiest people in the world, on the list of the richest businessmen in Russia in 2016 he was ranked 169 with a fortune of $500 million.

Oleg Tinkoff is known as the founder of a network of shops of household appliances Technoshock, frozen food factories Daria, brewing companies and network of Tinkoff restaurants. Among less well-known projects – music store Music Shock and the record label Shock Records, which released first albums bands Kirpichi, Leningrad, and which worked with the . Tinkoff is the founder and chairman of the Tinkoff Bank board of directors (until 2015 is was called Tinkoff Credit Systems). The bank was founded in 2007 and as of December 1, 2016, it is ranked 45 in terms of assets and 33 – for equity among Russian banks.

Tinkoff is passionate about road cycling and has the title of candidate in master of sports of the USSR. In 2005, he created a professional cycling team Tinkoff Restaurants, which later changed its name to Tinkoff Credit Systems and became the basis for the Katyusha team. From December 2013 to November 2016 he owned a cycling team Tinkoff.

Oleg Tinkoff was born in the village Polysayevo, Leninsk-Kuznetsk district of the Kemerovo region in the family of a miner and a seamstress.

Since the age of 12 Tinkoff was interested in road cycling, he was a member of cycling clubs at school, and later – at the workplaces. He won in a number of competitions, and in 1984 received the title of a candidate in master of sports. During training camps Tinkoff first took up black marketeering, buying hard-to-find goods in Central Asia, and selling them in Leninsk-Kuznetsky. His cycling career was interrupted by military service: he did not get in the Sports Club of the army and was sent to the border troops. In 1986-1988 he served in the Far East – in Nakhodka and Nikolayevsk-on-Amur.