Nikolai Buinov (born June 19, 1967, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) is a Russian businessman and entrepreneur.
[4] In 2021, Buinov was included in Forbes annual ranking «Russia's richest businessmen [ru]» as his net worth was estimated at $2.2 billion.
The company supplied Siberian gold miners with fuel and materials for their mining operations in Irkutsk.
[1] Buinov first heard about eastern Siberia's potential for oil production from Boris Sinyavsky, a Russian geologist.
[6] In 2017, Buinov announced that INK would increase crude oil production to 8.5 million tons per year.