Sanctions status — checked 18 October 2026
Not found on the OFAC SDN, UK OFSI or EU consolidated lists.
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No current figure: Forbes no longer publishes a live net worth estimate for Anatoly Lomakin; its last posted valuation dates from 4 April 2023 (Forbes profile).
Anatoly Lomakin is a Russian businessman who made his fortune in the potash fertilizer trade. In 1992 he founded the International Potash Company (MKK), which for a time handled sales for Uralkali, Silvinit and Belaruskali. Together with a partner he was a main owner of the potash producer Silvinit until 2010, when they sold their shares. In 2012 and 2013 he spent six months as a member of the State Duma for United Russia. He is not on the US, UK, EU or Canadian sanctions lists. Poland has frozen his assets under its national sanctions law.
- Born: 30 June 1952 in Grodno, in what was then the Belarusian Soviet Republic (Kommersant, Polish Interior Ministry)
- Education: Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), 1975; Doctor of Economic Sciences
- Known for: founder of the International Potash Company (MKK), former co-owner of Silvinit
- Sanctions as of October 2026: Poland (national list, since December 2023), Ukraine (since October 2022); not listed by the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union or Canada
Early career and the potash trade
Lomakin graduated from MGIMO in 1975 (Kommersant). He also holds a doctorate in economics; his thesis dealt with the competitiveness of Russian and Belarusian potash fertilizers on the world market (Forbes Russia). He began his career in the 1980s in the Soviet foreign trade system, at a unit of Soyuzpromexport, and rose to director of the potash division of the foreign trade association Agrokhimexport (Forbes Russia, 2012).
In 1992 he created the International Potash Company (MKK), which pooled the sales of the potash producers Uralkali, Silvinit and Belaruskali (Interfax, Forbes Russia). The alliance soon broke up, Uralkali and Belaruskali later stopped using MKK, and MKK continued as a trader (Kommersant). Lomakin headed MKK as general director until he entered the Duma in 2012 (Forbes Russia, 2013).
Silvinit
In 2010, Lomakin and Pyotr Kondrashev, then the main owners of Silvinit, sold 47 percent of the company to entities of the Duma deputy Zelimkhan Mutsoev and Anatoly Skurov, co-owner of the coal company Sibuglemet (Forbes Russia, Kommersant). Silvinit then merged with Uralkali. The competition authority FAS approved the merger on 4 April 2011 (Vedomosti). After the merger, the company did not renew its export agreement with MKK (Forbes Russia).
According to Forbes, Lomakin invested in the company Investstroy in 2013, which finances housing construction in Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, St Petersburg and Moscow. Forbes lists him as the owner of 50 percent (Forbes Russia, 2024, Forbes). The UK company register lists him as the person with significant control of International Potash Company (UK) Limited, which was still active in October 2026 (Companies House).
Six months in the State Duma
Lomakin ran for the State Duma on United Russia’s list in 2011 but did not win a seat. On 22 August 2012 the Central Election Commission registered him as a deputy after Yuri Trutnev, who had been given the seat, declined it (Forbes Russia, Interfax). He is listed among the deputies of the sixth Duma (State Duma). In February 2013 he asked to give up his seat, officially for health reasons, and the Duma ended his mandate early on 22 February 2013 (Interfax, Forbes Russia).
Sanctions
| Country | Listed | Status in October 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Poland | 6 December 2023 | Listed (national sanctions list of the Interior Ministry) |
| Ukraine | 19 October 2022 | Listed for ten years (Presidential Decree No. 727/2022) |
| United States | no | Not listed (OFAC SDN list) |
| United Kingdom | no | Not listed (UK sanctions list) |
| European Union | no | Not listed (EU consolidated list) |
| Canada | no | Not listed (Canada’s consolidated autonomous sanctions list) |
On 6 December 2023, at the request of Poland’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau, the Polish Interior Minister ordered Lomakin to be placed on the national sanctions list. The measures are an asset freeze and a ban on making funds available to him. The ministry stated that he indirectly holds 30.6 percent of the Warsaw company Chemagrotrade, which is in liquidation and trades with the Belarusian Potash Company (Polish Interior Ministry). In February 2024 the ministry amended the decision and removed his entry on the list of foreigners whose stay in Poland is undesirable. The asset freeze remains in place. This is a measure under Polish national law, not a court ruling.
We checked the US, UK and Canadian lists on 6 October 2026 and the EU list as of 22 September 2026 and found no entry for Anatoly Lomakin. The EU list contains a different person with the same surname, a deputy construction minister. Ukraine has also sanctioned Lomakin: the annex to Presidential Decree No. 727/2022 of 19 October 2022 lists him with his date of birth and sets the measures, including the blocking of assets, for ten years. It gives no reasons (Decree No. 727/2022).
About this profile
This profile was rewritten in October 2026. An earlier version from 2022 gave a wrong year of birth and said his background was “shrouded in mystery”. It described a merger of potash producers that did not take place in that form and credited him with stakes, art, charities and political influence for which we found no source. These statements have been removed. The net worth figure in the box at the top of this page comes from Forbes and carries its date.
Sources
- Ministry of the Interior and Administration of Poland: Decisions on entries in the sanctions list, decision DPP-TPZ.0272.113.2023 of 6 December 2023 and amending decision of 28 February 2024, retrieved 6 October 2026
- Kommersant: Депутат Анатолий Ломакин попросился из Думы (Deputy Anatoly Lomakin asks to leave the Duma), 20 February 2013; Сулейман Керимов запустил химическую реакцию (on the Uralkali–Silvinit deal), 27 December 2010
- Forbes Russia: Billionaire Anatoly Lomakin becomes a Duma deputy, 22 August 2012; Billionaire deputy Anatoly Lomakin leaves the Duma, 20 February 2013; The Duma ends Lomakin’s mandate, 22 February 2013; Who left the Russian Forbes list this year, 18 April 2024; Anatoly Lomakin, profile
- Interfax: Billionaire Lomakin wants to give up his mandate, 20 February 2013
- Vedomosti: FAS approves the merger of Uralkali and Silvinit, 4 April 2011
- State Duma: Deputies of the sixth convocation, retrieved 6 October 2026
- Companies House (UK): International Potash Company (UK) Limited, persons with significant control, retrieved 6 October 2026
- Forbes: Anatoly Lomakin, profile, updated 4 April 2023
- Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: Presidential Decree No. 727/2022 and annex to the NSDC decision, 19 October 2022
- Sanctions lists checked on 6 October 2026: OFAC SDN list (published 2 October 2026), UK sanctions list (6 October 2026), Canada’s consolidated autonomous sanctions list (6 October 2026), EU consolidated financial sanctions file (22 September 2026)
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