Roman Abramovich biography briefly. Conquest of the political Olympus

Childhood

Roman’s childhood cannot be called easy: when the boy was only one year old, he lost his mother. However, his trials did not end there. The father, trying to provide for his family, worked a lot. One of the days at a construction site turned out to be fatal for him - as a result of an accident, he died, leaving his son a complete orphan.

After the loss of his parents, little Roman was taken in by relatives. The first person to respond was his uncle, who lives in the city of Ukhta, where the boy subsequently moved.

When Roman turned 8 years old, another move awaited him - this time to Moscow. There he came under the guardianship of another uncle, Abram. Simultaneously with the change of residence, the boy went to educational institution. School No. 232 was chosen as a starting point, where he studied until graduation.

Studying never attracted Roman - all school subjects seemed boring to him, and immediately after receiving his certificate, he decided to go serve in the army.

Upon returning from service, he nevertheless succumbed to the persuasion of his relatives to get higher education. Roman chose the direction that was as close as possible to his hobbies and capabilities at that time - the Faculty of Forestry at a regional institute. This time the granite of science turned out to be uninteresting for him, which is why he subsequently dropped out of school. The only useful thing that Roman learned from his studies was the discovery of his own organizational skills, which would be useful to him in the future.

Career

However, the chosen field of work was not enough to realize Roman’s ambitions, and he decided to try his hand at trading. The most promising area at that time was already the oil industry. The similarity of interests and the desire to prove himself in business brought the young, purposeful man into contact with a number of “important” people. Among the biggest names are Boris Berezovsky and Boris Yeltsin.

Then came the “dashing 90s”. Roman, already having a lot of capital at that time, was able to become the founder of a number of large corporations. It is noteworthy that despite the growing geometric progression income, he managed to avoid the attention of the press for a long time. Factor X in this issue It turned out that his working connections with Boris Yeltsin were declassified. At this time, Roman was the head of AVK, still focusing on working with oil. It was during that period of his life that the entrepreneur first became involved in a major scandal (a case was opened about the theft of a large shipment of fuel).

Roman Abramovich: Yes, I am an oligarch!

In 1998, Abramovich's name was finally mentioned in the media. He was credited with a close friendship with Boris Yeltsin and even managing the president’s personal affairs. In the late 90s, Roman collaborated a lot with another “growing” billionaire - Oleg Deripaska, who later became central figure scandal with Nastya Rybka and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko. As the head of Sibneft, Abramovich became the owner of a large stake in Aeroflot.

Interview with Roman Abramovich

Then, in the early 2000s (2001-2008), Roman directed his forces in a “peaceful” direction and became the governor of Chukotka. Under his leadership oil industry The region has grown at a rapid pace. In 2003, Roman became the owner of the Chelsea club - under his “beginning” the club won the UEFA Champions League.

The period after 2008 was concentrated on the management of existing enterprises and development in the real estate sector. At that time, Abramovich’s fortune had reached his highest level yet – $23.5 billion.

Personal life of Roman Abramovich

Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin, an outstanding writer and thinker, lieutenant of the Great Patriotic War, invited me to visit. He said: “In the modern world, being ostentatiously rich is indecent. Not fashionable. This is “Asianness” in its purest form.

I often visited Likhachev - a simple apartment, I got to bed through mountains of books. I also visited Sakharov. There is a two-room apartment near the station. I lived with Updike for several days. He rented two rooms above the bar and wrote there. I visited Bradbury and Kobo Abe at home. Normal, human housing for the relatively rich and for the whole world famous people. Why shouldn’t Novaya Gazeta show how beautifully and with delight they live? normal people without blatant consumption and ostentatious wealth?”

Dear Daniil Alexandrovich, we will try to implement your idea.

But we couldn’t resist making comparisons.

In this issue - about the living space of R.A. Abramovich and A.D. Sakharov.

To be continued in upcoming issues: how the Russian establishment consumes the world.

D. Muratov,"New Newspaper"

How Abramovich lives

It looks like construction of Abramovich's mega-mansion in Manhattan will take place

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has moved one step forward with his project to build his own mega-mansion in Manhattan. The New York City Historic Preservation Commission has re-approved a project to combine three Upper East Side houses he owns into one mega-mansion. The total cost of Abramovich's new New York home exceeds $80 million.

Can't you buy history?

At first, Abramovich faced setbacks. In April of this year, the Historic Preservation Commission rejected an original plan to combine two English Baroque townhouses (called Queen Anne style) and a Neo-Federal style townhouse (which looks like a government office). A month earlier, the New York City Department of Buildings refused to give permission to combine the three buildings.

The Russian oligarch, the owner of the London Chelsea football club and the yacht Eclipse (Eclipse), which is periodically rented by Hollywood stars, members of the royal family and other VIPs, was going to build a common rear facade made of bronze in the three buildings he bought in the historic district of New York and glass, as well as a swimming pool, sauna, courtyard, greenhouse. The facade of the building, reconstructed in 1923 in the neo-federal style, was intended to be restored by the architects hired by Abramovich to the “English look”, making the house the same as it was originally built in 1887-1889. However, the commission for the protection of monuments considered that such a reconstruction would “destroy a significant part of history.” Committee member Michael Goldbloom said such an overhaul would lead to "uniformity over authenticity." Society of Urban Architects spokeswoman Christabel Gow described the potential redevelopment as "unnecessary destruction".

“The combination of three separate mansions into one is absolutely new level flagrant consumption. We can only hope that the owner of the buildings treats them with sensitivity,” said Kelly Carroll of the Historic District Council. When a person "buys a story," she says, it's not just about "dollars and cents." “Meaningful strategic management is also needed, and this proposal is anything but that,” Carroll added. Practicing historical heritage at Columbia University, Andrew Dolkart said that potential approval of the project "would set a terrible precedent."

But the ban did not stop the Russian businessman, whose fortune Forbes magazine this year estimated at $8.1 billion and placed Abramovich in 157th place in the ranking of the richest people in the world. The Russian businessman spent more than $78 million on the purchase of three buildings located on 75th Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenue. Moreover, the buyer was not known to the owners. “If they knew who it was and for what purpose they were buying houses, they would have demanded much more more money", notes the New York Post.

This is not Abramovich's first attempt to build a mega-mansion in a historic building in the center of New York. American media reported that in 2013 he was going to buy a 22-apartment mansion at 828 5th Avenue, previously owned by construction magnate Howard Ronson, for $75 million. This would be a record purchase for this type of housing, called cooperative (co-op). But the widow of the American billionaire, Angelica Ivanz, blocked the deal. She even planned to sue the board of trustees of Ronson's estate, which, in her opinion, agreed to the sale of the house to Abramovich too early. “The Russian rich were willing to pay significantly more,” Ivanz said in an interview with the New York Post.

As a result, she stayed with her own people, and Abramovich’s team refocused attention on three townhouses: 11, 13, 15E on 75th Street. The refusal of the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the New York City Department of Buildings to accept the original reconstruction plan did not stop architect Stephen Wang, who promised that all the commission's comments would be taken into account in the new version. And on the second attempt, the go-ahead was finally given. The application by the Swiss architectural bureau Herzog & de Meuron, hired by Abramovich, was approved by the commission for the protection of historical monuments in June.

First of all, it was decided to preserve the original appearance of the facade. From the street, the houses will look like three separate buildings. An unusual wall of glass and bronze will be built at the back. And the flowing water of a vertical pool and stone boulders surrounded by a green lawn will remind you of the landscape of New York's Central Park. It is planned to spend $6 million on the reconstruction of Abramovich's mega-house. The same people who called the architectural project "an example of blatant consumerism" in April praised its new version in June.

Abramovich's representatives have not commented on either the initial unanimous refusal of the commission or the same unanimous approval new version project. The billionaire was not present at the commission meetings.

To begin work, it is necessary to obtain the consent of the New York Department of Buildings, which in March rejected Abramovich's original megahouse project. Now, after the agreement of historians and architects, the chances of this are very high.

"Egregious consumers"

This phenomenon Thornstein Veblen back in late XIX century called “conspicuous consumption.” By this he understood wasteful spending on certain goods or services not so much because of their usefulness, but rather for show, with the primary purpose of demonstrating one’s own wealth. The desire to “show yourself”, “be the best”, “taste the taste of victory” not through talents, but through the purchase of goods is a common occurrence for hysterics and people without talent, but not only. This skill covers the most ordinary consumers. T. Veblen coined the special term “invidiousconsumption”, denoting consumption with the deliberate purpose of causing feelings of envy.

Three years ago, Roman Abramovich made the Big Apple talk when his yacht Eclipse (then the largest yacht in the world) moored for two months on the banks of the Hudson at Pier 90, near the center of Manhattan. According to American media, the reason for the unexpected visit, which the port authorities of New York refused to name, citing a non-disclosure clause of the terms of the contract, was the birth of the daughter of Daria Zhukova and Roman Abramovich. “When it was time to give birth, Zhukova simply went ashore and went to New York Presbyterian Hospital,” Forbes magazine writes. New York native Leah Lou Abramovich is considered a US citizen. As is her brother Aaron Alexander, who was born in Los Angeles in December 2009.

The billionaire paid $112 thousand just for parking on the pier. General expenses - for fuel, food, maintenance and wages of the Eclipse crew, etc. - amounted to about $500 thousand per week, believes Tim Thomas, editor of Boat International magazine. Forbes then congratulated Roman Arkadyevich “on the most expensive birth in the world.”

A lyrical digression: the construction of the yacht “Eclipse” cost $500 million. The ship has two swimming pools, two helipads, and a mini-submarine. The 162.5 m long yacht is equipped with its own missile defense system and bulletproof windows around the owner's personal cabin. With all the tech bells and whistles, it's worth over $1.2 billion.

For four years, Abramovich’s yacht had no equal in the world, until for the President of the United United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan did not build “Azzam” - seventeen and a half meters longer than “Eclipse”. By the way, the largest yacht in the world (15,917 tons, 3809 square meters of living space) was recently acquired by a shareholder of the London football club Arsenal Russian billionaire, native of Uzbekistan Alisher Usmanov. The yacht was called “Dilbar”, Usmanov gave it a new name “Ona” - in honor of his mother.

In the company of Madonna and Bloomberg

The historic buildings of Manhattan are the ideal home for representatives of the “golden interest”. Singer Madonna and former city mayor Michael Bloomberg bought neighboring apartments and houses in Manhattan, expanding their housing. Not far from Abramovich's future home, in 2009 Madonna bought herself three townhouses on East 81st Street for $32 million. 1.7 million was invested in reconstruction, adding a fifth floor to the building complex. The work lasted for a year and a half. Now the house has 13 bedrooms, several living rooms, a studio, a gym, two garages and a garden. For Abramovich, everything is more expensive and larger-scale. As the New York Post reported, citing sources associated with Abramovich's project, bringing three houses into one in his case would require enormous work and expense.

Former city leader and billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who bought four of the six apartment apartments (called "units") four blocks from Abramovich on East 79th Street, his 12,500 square feet is a long way from 18,225 thousand. at Abramovich's. As realtor Sabrina Saltiel notes, “It’s a trend—everything is growing in size. In the case of New York, huge amounts of money are being spent in the race for the limited amount of suitable housing available.”

And suitable housing for yourself Russian elite long years I considered Manhattan and also Miami. True, the recent decision of the American Department of Justice to check the ownership of luxury housing to combat money laundering and the call from the very top for representatives of the Russian political and financial elite to abandon foreign real estate and transfer foreign assets to their homeland may “change the concept.”

The inspections began in March and will continue until August. For the first time, US federal authorities are requiring realtors to reveal the names behind cash transactions. In Manhattan, details of the transaction will need to be disclosed if it exceeds $3 million, in Miami - $1 million. According to PropertyShark, in the second half of last year, 1,045 properties worth more than $3 million were sold in Manhattan.

Alexander Panov,
personal corr. "New", Washington

Read about yachts and real estate of the Russian establishment in comparison with how Kurt Vonnegut lived in the following issues.

How Sakharov lived

Foreword by Yuri Rost

You can be a worthy citizen and live in grand style, hospitably and with daring, according to your needs, consistent with a broad person, who, however, takes into account the living conditions of his fellow citizens around you, without boasting of opportunities.

Sakharov lived modestly. Very modest. Actually, this is not a virtue or a source of pride. Just great citizen country and world lived like this. He had a need to live better, but it did not concern his life. He wanted him, a free man, to be surrounded by free people in his country. So that they have the opportunity to choose and, most importantly, that they have the desire to choose. A two-room apartment suited him quite well. There was a place to work, a place to relax, and a kitchen for socializing. For a long time he lived in the apartment of the mother of his second wife, where Elena Bonner’s mother, an old Bolshevik, her son and daughter and her husband lived in two rooms. The couple slept in the kitchen. After returning from Gorky exile, he was given an apartment in the same building on Chkalova Street.

One day, when I came to visit, I found the usual picture of devastation that accompanies our renovation. There I witnessed and took part in a funny episode, which I described in a small parable, accompanied by my favorite card.

Academician and plumbers. Parable

There will be smarter people who will explain how this tall, stooped man, pacing and stumbling, was able to turn the consciousness of his fellow citizens from readiness for blind obedience to no matter what authority to awareness of their human dignity.

I don't take on this task. I'll tell you a better parable.

Arriving from Gorky, they saw that the telephones were turned off, and the house was desolate, because they did not live in it, but he lived in them.

Then the academician came to the academic store and asked for a bathtub of seventy meters, as his wife asked, and a toilet with an oblique inlet, as required by the water supply and sewerage system, and the merchants sold it to him.

When they brought it into the house, his wife saw that the bathtub was torn, and she reproached him for deceiving him. He answered: “New things are not always good. A person pays for what he buys, not for what he has already bought.” And she understood and said: “Good buy. Thank you for not leaking."

Then two plumbers came out of the toilet - Nikolai and Kolka - and, having started, began to reprimand him: “You are an academician, but you don’t know that there are two systems: with a direct inlet and with an oblique one - and they are incompatible. They tricked you into giving you another instead of one toilet. And now, if you put it in, choose: either the door won’t open, and if we put it in, we’ll be in the toilet forever, or it will never close.”

He replied: “There is a third system, which does not give a choice at all, but this does not mean that there is no way out of it.”

But the plumbers did not understand him and went away to smoke for a long time, and he began to work.

Then his wife said to me: “Go to them. You know their language,” and gave me a bottle of argument.

They answered: “Let’s try.” And, unable to resist that argument, they worked as usual.

And he, as usual, thought.

When evening came, they went out without washing their hands of their labors, and said with the pride of an honest person: “We have done everything that the system allows.”

And I was amazed when I recognized the metaphor, for I heard in their pride my pride, and in their words - mine and many who considered themselves a completely honest person.

Arriving at the toilet, I saw that the door was closed and the toilet was standing, but it was possible to use it, although with inconvenience.

Returning to the kitchen, I told him, but he did not recognize the metaphor, because he did not have the experience of combining with systems that the plumbers had: Nikolai, Kolka and me.

And I thought that he would say: “They did what they could, and you do what you can. Do not reproach another for misunderstanding and inability. But myself for understanding and inability to measles.”

But he said: “Thank you!” And I kept thinking...

Yuri Rost, columnist for Novaya Gazeta

• Moscow State Law Academy

In 2019, according to Forbes magazine, Roman Abramovich's fortune is $12.4 billion. He ranks 10th in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia.

Biography

Taken into the family of his uncle Leib Abramovich, Roman spent a significant part of his youth in the city of Ukhta (Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), where his uncle worked as the head of the Pechorles labor supply department at KomilesURS. Roman studied in the 2nd grade at school No. 2.

Starting a business

Having started his career as a worker (in 1987-1989 as a mechanic of SU-122 of the Mosspetsmontazh trust), in the late 1980s he acquired the Uyut cooperative, whose official activity was the production of toys from polymer materials. Abramovich’s partners in Uyut, Evgeny Shvidler and Valery Oif, subsequently formed the management team of Sibneft.

In the early 1990s, he was the founder of the following companies: JSC Mekong, private private enterprise Supertechnology-Shishmarev Firm, JSC Elita, JSC Petroltrans, JSC GID, NPR and many others.

Oil Trader

For a long time after the divorce in 2007, Irina hid from the public and journalists. Only a couple of years ago a woman started an Instagram page, daring to do privacy public. However, she could not stand the close attention to her own person and again went into the shadows. Like most of her children from the oligarch. However, some of the pictures have already been saved.

“I grew up without a father, so it was especially important to me that my children never want for anything. Roman always promised me that this would be the case. And even now, after the divorce, he keeps his promise,” the ex-wife said in an interview. Irina really doesn’t have to complain about poverty: Roman left her at least 250-300 million dollars. Some sources simply call a fabulous amount - almost 6 billion pounds sterling, which is half of the businessman’s entire fortune. In addition, Abramovich gave the mother of his children estates and apartments in England, a castle in France, and also allowed her to use a yacht and a private plane.

In addition, the man also took on the expenses of his five children. Therefore, the 18th birthday of Sophia’s daughter a couple of years ago was held in a nightclub located on Stamford Bridge. The girl was paid for the performance of a fashionable musical group, and a cake from the leading pastry chef, and other whims in the amount of 45 thousand dollars. New Year children Ilya, Anna, Arina, Sofya and Arkady, led by their mother, are happy to celebrate in the Maldives, at the five-star hotel “One And Only Reethi Rah Maldives”. There is even a nameplate installed at their house, and the Beckham couple and the eminent cook, restaurateur and presenter Gordon Ramsay are relaxing next door. How much do such vacations cost? A little less than 300 thousand dollars. Of course, the heirs of the oligarch not only “hang out”, but also receive a decent education. The older girls were transported to the Godolphin and Latymer private school by helicopter every morning, and to the subsequent educational institution, Royal Holloway College, “only” in a bulletproof Range Rover.

After the divorce, Irina lived in four countries, living in Great Britain, France, Switzerland and Russia. But she especially fell in love with the estate in Hampshire, where the woman spends most time. Previously, the estate belonged to the King of Jordan and it is truly furnished like a king: in addition to the luxurious house, there is a lake, a swimming pool, a tennis court, and polo grounds on the territory. Abramovich willingly does housework, creates comfort and takes care of pets. Not only cats and dogs live in the villa, but also horses. The stable, which, by the way, is designed for 100 horses, is not just entertainment for the rich. The couple’s two daughters, Anna and Sofia, are professional equestrians and even take prizes in competitions. Such pleasure costs the family about half a million dollars a year, not to mention the purchase of new horses, each of which costs about 400 thousand dollars.

During life together with the oligarch, the woman loved shopping. The limousine took the rich man's wife to Sloane Street, where she strolled through the boutiques of world brands. The woman’s passion for beautiful things remains even now: she dresses succinctly, but still in branded outfits. For example, in a woman’s wardrobe there are Rochas shoes embroidered with rhinestones (about $780), a Birkin bag (about 20,000 euros), light shoes from Valentino (280 euros), a Missoni cape (about 800 euros), and so on. Further.

Being married to richest man country, Irina had to hide, move around surrounded by a crowd of guards and often change phone numbers. Now Abramovich can not deny himself the pleasure of calmly going out into the world, even without a companion. Thus, a woman loves to go with a company to the Royal Opera, celebrates the birthday of her friends and their children on yachts, and also relaxes several times a year at the world's best resorts, for example, in Saint-Tropez.

TASS DOSSIER. On October 24, Russian businessman and former governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Roman Abramovich turns 50 years old.

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich was born on October 24, 1966 in Saratov. Father - Arkady (Aaron) Nakhimovich Abramovich - was a native of Taurage (Lithuania), worked as a supplier for the construction department in Syktyvkar. Mother, Irina Vasilievna, is a music teacher.

In 2001, he graduated in absentia from the Moscow State Law Academy named after. O.E. Kutafina (now a university). also in different time studied at the Ukhta Industrial and Moscow Automobile and Highway Institutes, but did not graduate from them.

IN early age Roman Abramovich was left an orphan: his mother died from illness, his father from the consequences of an injury at work. He was first brought up by his paternal grandmother, in 1970-1974. - from my father's brother, Leib Abramovich. Since 1974, he lived in Moscow with his grandmother and his father’s second brother, Abram Abramovich.

In 1984-1986 served in Soviet army as a private in artillery units in the Vladimir region.

From January 1987 to January 1989 he worked as the head of a welding unit in the construction and installation department No. 122 of Mosspetsmontazh.

In 1989, he headed the Uyut cooperative, which sold children's plastic toys in Moscow. Then he was a stock broker, engaged in trading in petroleum products.

In 1994 or 1995 Abramovich met general director"Automobile All-Russian Alliance" by Boris Berezovsky, who invited him to go into the oil business. On August 24, 1995, by decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, the Sibneft company was created. By 1996, its shares (more than 70%) were bought by structures associated with Abramovich and Berezovsky. It was alleged that Abramovich paid $100.3 million for the oil company's stake in the oil company.

In 1996-1997 Roman Abramovich was the director of the Moscow branch of OJSC NK Sibneft. Also from 1996 to 1999, he was a member of the board of directors of Sibneft.

In 1998, the first mentions of Abramovich as a “close friend of Berezovsky” appeared in the media. November 26 of the same year former manager Russian Presidential Security Service Alexander Korzhakov stated that Abramovich allegedly enjoyed great influence on the family of Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Already in 1999, Abramovich was written about in the media as “oligarch number one.”

In 2000, Abramovich merged the aluminum and energy assets of Sibneft with Oleg Deripaska's Siberian Aluminum, creating the joint company Rusal. At the same time, he received a stake in other assets of Siberian Aluminum, including Irkutskenergo and RusPromAvto. In 2003, Abramovich sold all his shares in these companies to Oleg Deripaska.

In the early 2000s. Abramovich bought from Boris Berezovsky his share in Sibneft, as well as Berezovsky's 49% of the ORT television channel (now Channel One) and 26% of Aeroflot. He sold the airline's shares in 2003-2005. In September 2005, Gazprom bought a 72.6% stake in Sibneft from Abramovich for $13 billion. Subsequently, in 2007, Boris Berezovsky tried to obtain compensation in the amount of $5.6 billion from Abramovich, claiming that in the early 2000s. under pressure from the Russian authorities, he was forced to sell him a stake in Sibneft and other companies at a greatly reduced price. In 2012, the Commercial Court of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in London rejected Berezovsky's claim.

Political career in Chukotka

In December 1999, Abramovich won the elections in State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation in the Chukotka single-mandate electoral district No. 223, gaining 59.78% of the votes. In the Duma he was not a member of deputy associations, but was a member of the committee on problems of the North and Far East.

On October 17, 2010, Roman Abramovich announced that he would run for governor of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The media assessed the businessman’s decision to become governor differently. In particular, Anatoly Chubais (at that time the head of RAO UES of Russia), argued that Abramovich “can really restore order in Chukotka.” At the same time, assumptions were published that the businessman wanted to gain control over the region (at that time one of the most economically “depressed” in the country) in order to develop its natural resources.

After shortly before the elections, the current governor of Chukotka, Alexander Nazarov, withdrew his candidacy, on December 24, 2000, Abramovich, who ran as a self-nominated candidate, won the elections in Chukotka, gaining 90.61% of the votes. Second place was taken by another self-nominated candidate, Vladimir Etylin, receiving 3.21% of the votes.

On October 21, 2005, Roman Abramovich was reappointed to the post of head of the region by the District Duma on the proposal of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

After his appointment, he registered some of Sibneft’s subsidiaries in Chukotka, almost doubling the region’s tax contributions to the federal budget.

In March 2001, Abramovich announced that he donated $18 million from his own funds to improve the living conditions of Chukotka residents, in particular, he sent local children on vacation to the Black Sea, and paid for the delivery of food and medicine.

Housing construction and landscaping were launched in the district locality. The media also wrote that the governor helped the indigenous population restore folk crafts and was able to reduce the level of alcoholism. In 2000-2008 The GRP of the Autonomous Okrug increased 7.8 times: from 3.9 billion rubles. to 30.5 billion (on average in Russia the increase was 5.8 times, in Moscow - 6.8 times).

On July 3, 2008, he resigned from the post of governor, which was accepted by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

October 12, 2008 as a result by-elections became a deputy of the Duma of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of the fourth convocation (he ran as a self-nominated candidate), and from October 22 of the same year - chairman of the regional parliament. On March 13, 2011, he was re-elected as a deputy of the District Duma of the fifth convocation, and on March 29, he was again confirmed as its chairman.

On July 2, 2013, he left the District Duma early due to the law that came into force. federal law, which prohibits deputies from owning foreign assets.

Owner of Chelsea

On June 2, 2003, Roman Abramovich bought Chelsea football club from Ken Bates for £140 million (about $170 million), after which he invested a further £100 million in acquiring new players. Two years later, Chelsea became the champion of England for the first time since 1955, and also won the English Super Cup, establishing themselves among the best football clubs in Europe. It has been reported that Abramovich personally makes strategic decisions in the team, selects coaches, etc. According to Forbes magazine, Abramovich has spent more than £1 billion ($1.3 billion) on the club since purchasing the club.

Modern assets

Until 2015, Roman Abramovich owned most of his assets through Millhouse Capital UK Ltd, a company registered in London; by mid-2013 its assets amounted to 2 billion pounds sterling (about 3 billion US dollars). No official revenue data for Millhouse Capital has been published. According to the company’s presentation for 2014, 30% of its assets were located in Russia, the USA and Europe, another 10% in Southeast Asia. At the same time, the areas of activity of the holding companies were evenly distributed between the extraction and sale of minerals, heavy and light industry, as well as investments in real estate. On July 5, 2016, the company was liquidated.

Currently, Abramovich owns most of his assets through Cypriot offshore companies or British companies. In the media, Abramovich’s partner in Millhouse and other companies was often called former president"Sibneft" Evgeny Shvidler.

Abramovich is:

• the largest shareholder (31.03% of voting shares, since 2006) of the metallurgical holding Evraz - through the Cyprus offshore Lanebrook limited ("Lanebrook Limited");
• minority owner of Norilsk Nickel (6%) - through Cypriot Crispian Investments
• owner of 24% of Channel One through ORT-KB LLC (in 2011, Abramovich sold 25% of the shares to Yuri Kovalchuk’s National Media Group).
• He owns deposits of molybdenum, copper, gold and silver in Chukotka - the Baimskoye Mining Company (Peschanka deposit, purchased in 2008 for 1 billion rubles), the Dvoinoye and Vodorozdelnoye deposits, the Highland Gold Mining company
• It also has a number of development assets. In particular, since 2000, he has been the sole investor in the project for the reconstruction of the New Holland complex in St. Petersburg (opened on August 27, 2016), and the development of Meshchersky Park in the Moscow region near Skolkovo. Owns developers of residential areas "Skolkovo Park", "Krylatsky Hills", etc. Abramovich owns these assets through the Cypriot companies Protonius Investments ltd and TAR Trading and Investment
• Chelsea is owned by Abramovich through the British company Fordstam Limited
• The businessman is also a co-founder of the Olympians Support Fund

Forbes rating, income statements, yachts and planes

Roman Abramovich first appeared on the list of world billionaires according to the American magazine Forbes in 2001: with a fortune of $1.4 billion, he was placed in 363rd place in the ranking.

In 2005-2007 Roman Abramovich was the richest among Russians (in 2006 - the highest, 11th, place in the overall ranking). Forbes gave the highest estimate of Abramovich's wealth in 2008 - $23.5 billion, but among Russian citizens that year Oleg Deripaska became the richest. In the 2016 ranking, Forbes estimated Abramovich's wealth at $7.6 billion, placing him 151st in the overall ranking. Among Russians he shares 13th place with Mikhail Prokhorov. This is his lowest estimate since 2003.

IN last time Abramovich published a declaration of income in 2011 during the elections to the Duma of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. According to the document, the income of the chairman of the regional Duma then amounted to 143 million 36 thousand rubles, while he owned 12 land plots in Russia, USA, UK and France, 9 houses, 7 apartments, 7 cars and shares of 7 companies. There were 3 billion 379 million rubles in his bank accounts.

According to media reports, Abramovich owns a private yacht Eclipse (built in 2010, length - 162.5 m). He also owns the yachts Luna and Sussoro.

He is the owner of a Boeing 767 wide-body aircraft ("Boeing 767", registration number - P4-MES).

Awards, family, hobbies

Awarded the Order of Honor (2006).

Married for the third time. The first wife is Olga Lysova, a geologist by training. The second wife, Irina Malandina, is a former flight attendant. The third wife is Daria Zhukova, collector, founder of the Moscow Garage Museum.

Seven children: Ilya, Arkady, Anna, Sophia and Arina - from the second marriage, Aaron-Alexander and Leia - from the third.

He is interested in football and mountaineering.