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The first billionaire in Murmansk

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One person in Murmansk Oblast reports an income of more than a billion rubles to the tax authorities.

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The person is the first ever with such an income in Murmansk Oblast, Regnum reports. The name of the person is not known, but he is reported to have got the incomes from trading with stocks, the news agency informs.

According to the Federal Tax Service, several more people in the region now also report incomes exceeding half a billion rubles. In addition, there is a significant growth in the number of people with incomes between 1-10 million RUB.

As reported by the latest Barents Monitoring report, the average salary level in Murmansk Oblast in late 2010 amounted to 22.600 RUB.