Roman Abramovich: oil, yachts and soccer

Probably after pop stars Roman Abramovich is the most mentioned person in the press with his own colossal business.

The guy from Saratov, who lost his parents early, brought up by his uncle and aunt in the Komi Republic, an icon for the residents of Chukotka, a lover of huge yachts and soccer clubs, a fan of Daria Zhukova beauty, currently divorced Abramovich is, according to the rating of the magazine "Finance", the second largest fortune - at the beginning of the year it is estimated at $13.90 billion (408.4 billion rubles).

After graduating from high school in the city of Ukhta in the Komi Republic, Roman Abramovich Abramovich entered the Industrial Institute, but was drafted into the army at the end of his first year. Then, according to various sources, Abramovich continued his studies at either the Moscow Automobile and Road Institute or the Gubkin Moscow Institute of the Petrochemical and Gas Industry. I.M. Gubkin Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry. At the same time Abramovich worked - from January 1987 he worked as a mechanic of the construction department number 122 of the trust "Mospetsmontazh. It is worth noting that Roman Abramovich He also has legal knowledge - he graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy in 2000.

The list of places where the future oligarch worked is quite long:

- January 1989 - May 1991 - Chairman of the cooperative "Uyut" (production of toys from polymers).
- May 1991 - May 1993 - Director of the small enterprise "AVK" (Moscow).

The company was a joint venture with Noyabrskneftegaz. Through the purchase of Sibneft shares by affiliated companies, Abramovich and Berezovsky took over a large block of the company's securities. Later, when the Accounts Chamber conducted an audit, the privatization of Sibneft was found to be ineffective, as the direct loss to the state from the sale of shares amounted to about 18.6 trillion rubles.
- 1997 - submitted an application to resign from the Board of Directors of Sibneft during the election campaign for the State Duma of the Russian Federation in 1999.
- 1999 - elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the third convocation. Interestingly enough, in the Duma Abramovich was not a member of any faction or deputy group, he was a member of the Committee on the Problems of the North and the Far East.
- 2000 г. - was elected governor of the Chukotka Autonomous District, gaining more than 90% votes in the election. In 2003, he bought Chelsea Football Club; in the same year he topped the list of the richest people in the world under the age of 40.
- 2006 - Abramovich asks Russian President Putin to terminate his powers as governor early. The request is rejected.
- 2008 - Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, accepted Abramovich's resignation.

Roman Abramovich He was married twice, and from his second marriage he had five children: three daughters and two sons.
An interesting detail: Alexander Korzhakov, former head of President Yeltsin's security service, used to call Abramovich the treasurer of the country's closest entourage. Thus, in particular, it became known that oligarch paid the personal expenses of Yeltsin's daughter Tatyana Dyachenko and her husband V. Yumashev. Under Abramovich's control and by means of personal financing, the election campaign of the first Russian leader in 1996 took place.

Now Roman Abramovich's personal security has about 40 people: half of them are in Britain, half accompany the businessman on his trips. According to The Sunday Times, it costs Abramovich 1.2 million a year to maintain an army of top-class professional security guards. British pounds. The ex-Governor of Chukotka is afraid of being kidnapped, so his security staff is eight times the size of a standard security team. Abramovich's security service is headed by retired British Army Special Forces officer Mark Skipp.

One last thing: To Roman Abramovich The fleet is owned by five luxury yachts. Their equipment is such that the mass media of the West not without reason dubbed them "Abramovich's fleet": the Pelorus, for example, has anti-missile defense systems, a helipad with a helicopter, a plasma generator, a laser holographic projector and other scientific and technological achievements. The oligarch's aircraft fleet consists of a private Boeing 767-33A/ER - the plane is nicknamed "Bandit" because of the specific color of the cabin, an Airbus A340-313X and three Eurocopter helicopters.

The wheeled transport is not pumped up either - two armored Maybach 62 and Ferrari FXX, of which 30 pieces were produced in total, allow the owner to feel maximum comfort. Of course, this is not the whole list of Abramovich's cars - but why the naming, if the fantasy is already off the charts?

Roman's scandalous romance with designer Daria Zhukova does not allow the press to relax. Isn't this a worthy continuation of the "Finance." list, where the no less odious Prokhorov tops the list?