Usmanov's $600M Yacht Bought the 512-foot Dilbar Superyacht for a Reported $600 Million
The custom-built 512-foot Dilbar was delivered in May 2016 after a 52-month build.
By the Rich vs Reality desk May 2016 10 sources

Could have given
15 million
people clean drinking water.
The custom-built 512-foot Dilbar was delivered in May 2016 after a 52-month build. Reporting put its cost at about $600 million. The yacht has two helipads and one of the world's largest pools installed on a yacht.
Reported by The Guardian, April 2022 and Forbes, April 2022.
$600 million could give 15 million people clean drinking water.
$600 million could have changed these lives
Instead, it went on this.
15 million
people given clean drinking water
charity: water: about $40 funds clean water for one person, on average, in rural communities. Source
5.5 million
hungry kids fed three meals a day for a whole year
No Kid Hungry: $1 can help provide 10 meals for kids. Three meals a day for 365 days is 1,095 meals, about $110 per child per year. Source
33,625
years of rent for a homeless veteran
At the U.S. median rent of $1,487 a month (Census, 2024), about $17,844 a year. Source
Or: 109,091 lives saved from malaria, most of them children under five; 16,812 families escaping domestic violence given a safe home for two years. Every rate and source.
Alisher Usmanov
$600 million
For everyone else, that's
Could have given 15 million people clean drinking water.
Drag the seam between the two worlds.
Measured against a typical American household: $87,460 a year, $192,900 net worth.
The receipts
- The Guardian, April 2022
- Forbes, April 2022
- Net worth: No published estimate
- U.S. Census Bureau, Income in the United States: 2025 (Sept 2026)
- Federal Reserve, Survey of Consumer Finances 2022
- No Kid Hungry, What your dollars can do
- GiveWell, How much does it cost to save a life?
- charity: water, How much clean water will my donation provide
- U.S. DOJ Office on Violence Against Women, Transitional housing
- U.S. Census Bureau median gross rent, via USAFacts
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