Dmitry Pumpyansky

Dmitry A. Pumpyansky is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the owner and chairman of OAO TMK, a Russian global manufacturer of steel pipes for the oil and gas industry.

• Dmitry Pumpyansky got his start as a trader, then oversaw several metals plants in the Ural in the 1990s before taking over the Sinarsky Pipe Factory.
• Pumpyansky teamed up with fellow billionaires Sergei Popov and Andrei Melnichenko to acquire pipe conglomerate TMK, and then bought them out in 2006.
• Making pipes became the source of Pumpyansky’s wealth. His TMK, a supplier to Gazprom since 1998, is No.1 in Russia.
• In 2011 Pumpyansky’s JV with Siemens won a $2.7 billion contract from Russian Railways to deliver modern trains called Lastochka (swallow bird).
• His companies also gave a face lift to a stadium that hosted the 2018 World Cup in Ekaterinburg.