Five years ago, near her home in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod (400 kilometers northeast of Moscow), she ran akiosk selling chewing gum, cigarettes and candies.

FORBES: Waking Dead Capital

The consequences can be grotesque: in the city of Dzerzhinsk, in Russia, decades of slapdash handling of chemical waste has reduced male life expectancy to just 42 years.

ECONOMIST: The waste industry

Near her home in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod (250 miles northeast of Moscow), she ran akiosk near the bus stop selling chewing gum, cigarettes and candies when she was 25.

FORBES: Waking Dead Capital