On May 27, Forbes magazine published the third-ever annual rating "30 under 30", which included the most promising Russians under the age of 30.
“The long list included 100 applicants in ten nominations - entrepreneurs, finance and investments, management, sports and e-sports, social practices, new media, music, art, fashion and design”, - the Dozhd TV channel reports.
Along with the Russians, the organizers included one representative of Kazakhstan and several Belarusians in the rating. Out of 100 contenders for the title of the best of the best, according to the results of the readers' vote on the site, Forbes experts and the editorial board chose the winners.
The rating includes the nominations Science and Technology, Management, Sports and Cybersport, Social Practices, New Media, Music, Art, Fashion and Design.
The rating of promising Russians under 30 includes Natalya Kartashova, AstraZeneca Senior Researcher, Rarible NFT platform founder Alexander Salnikov, Checkme health management service creator Anastasia Fayzulenova, June Homes marketplace founder Daniel Mishin, 20-year-old founder of DigitalBrain, a YC startup that develops feedback systems for customer support Dmitry Dolgopolov and others.
The ranking also includes the promising 17-year-old figure skater Anna Shcherbakova, hockey player Andrey Vasilevsky, MMA wrestler Peter Yan, CS: GO player Dmitry Sh1ro Sokolov. Among the promising musicians are the Russians Slava Marlow, the rapper Husky, the singer Niletto, the IC3PEAK and Cream Soda groups, the HammAli & Navai duet, the singer Klava Koka, as well as the DJ from Kazakhstan Imanbek Zeykenov (Imanbek).
In the Social Practices nomination, the best were the OVD-Info project coordinator Leonid Drabkin, the founder of the Diary School application Levan Kvirkvelia, the DOXA editorial board members recognized as political prisoners, the EcoPlatform founder Maxim Kaplevich, the creator of the girls' football school in Dagestan Elmira Ibragimova, the project founders "Circle" Sergei Nugaev and Alexander Bratchikov.
Among the most promising artists are the actresses Varvara Shmykova and Stasya Miloslavskaya, artist Vova Perkin, cameraman Ksenia Sereda. The New Media category includes stand-up comedian Alexander Dolgoplov, tiktokers Daniil Milokhin and Kirill Kolesnikov, YouTube blogger Anton Lyadov, streamer Vyacheslav Leontyev (Slava Buster), author of the Russian Marketing Telegram channel and moderator of Clubhouse Semyon Efimov, and founder of the Belarusian project NEXTA Stepan Putilo.