Roman Abramovich
Roman Abramovich Arkadyevitch (Russian Роман Аркадьевич Абрамович, scientific transliteration Roman Abramovich Arkad'evič; born October 24, 1966 in Saratov on the Volga ) is among the Russian oligarchs and from 2000 to July 2008, Governor of the Chukotka region. Abramovich, the son of Jewish parents from Saratov and already in infancy orphan, is one of the wealthiest men in the world.
Life and career
Abramovich was 18 months old when his mother Irina died of an illegal abortion. When he was four years old, his father died in an accident. Up to the age of eight Abramovich was raised by a paternal uncle, body Abramovich, oil engineer in Uchta 1300 km from Moscow in the oil province of Komi, near the Arctic Circle, then at a second uncle, Abraham, in Moscow. At the Moscow Gubkin Oil and Gas Institute, he studied engineering.
After the opening of Russia's economy in the wake of perestroika, Abramovich founded as a 21- year-old student, the company " Ujut " ( German: " coziness "). Ujut began by her mundane things like rubber ducks and footballs. Abramovich's entry into the oil business began when he headed the Moscow office of Swiss oil trader Runicom between 1993 and 1996. His start-up capital to have been 5,000 tons of fuel oil, which he allegedly appropriated by means of false documents. About Runicom he wrapped from larger oil deals with refineries, especially with Russia's largest refinery in Omsk, Siberia. This is now the core of the Sibneft Group, the Abramovich has since sold to the Russian energy giant Gazprom.
The decisive day for the ascent to one of the richest men in Russia was an encounter with Boris Berezovsky Abramovich for 1992.
Abramovich built in the 1990s - first as a partner of the oligarch Berezovsky - an extensive business empire on. For possession of controlled by him holding Millhouse Capital were 80 % of Russia's fifth-largest oil company Sibneft, 50 % of the aluminum company RUSAL, 26 % of the airline Aeroflot and 37.5 % of the auto producers Ruspromawto.
Apparently under the impression of the case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky Abramovich sold gradually its shares in Russian companies. Abramovich Aeroflot shares went in March 2003 to the Russian state. The RUSAL shares sold Millhouse in two steps in 2003 and 2004 to the group " Basowy element " by Oleg Deripaska. End of 2005, took over the parastatal gas giant Gazprom a majority stake in Abramovich's Sibneft oil company and named it later in Gazprom Neft to. Even after that remained Abramovich in Russia as an entrepreneur active. In December 2007, a participation of Millhouse on Russian gold producer Highland Gold Mining Ltd. was known in the amount of 40 percent.
Long considered as the most important oligarch Abramovich in the context of then-President Vladimir Putin. He is regarded as one of the key precursors for the transfer of power from former President Boris Yeltsin to Putin in 2000. The British authors Dominic Midgley and Chris Hutchins argue in her biography " The billionaire from nowhere ," Abramovich have all members of the first government under Putin a personal check on them before they came for an office in question.
In December 2000, Abramovich was elected governor of the Chukotka region and confirmed in October 2005, in office. The governorship is connected with criminal immunity. On July 3, 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accepted Abramovich's repeatedly voiced resignation and dismissed him as governor. Was succeeded by his former deputy, Roman Kopin.
In early 2008 ordered Infrastruktura, a construction company Abramovich, currently the world 's largest tunnel boring machine at Herrenknecht AG to tap to open a niche in the Russian market infrastructure. The device is to be used primarily in the construction of objects for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. Infrastruktura expected claims to tunneling contracts of several billion dollars per year.
In 2011, Boris Berezovsky, Abramovich sued for 5.6 billion U.S. dollars. He accused his former business partner of cheating on him with the sale of the company Sibneft and deprived him of his shares. However, Abramovich asserted that Berezovsky had no shares in the company. On August 31, 2012 Berezovsky lawsuit filed by a London court was dismissed.
Abramovich had in 2013, according to the business magazine Forbes an estimated net assets of 10.2 billion U.S. dollars, making it number 13 of the richest people in Russia and at number 107 of the richest people ever (list of richest people in the world). As a result of the financial crisis starting in 2007, he lost a large part of its assets. His fortune declined at that time estimated $ 23.5 billion to 3.3 billion dollars.
Football clubs, real estate, yachts and paintings
On 1 July 2003 Abramovich bought for 210 million euros to the English Football Club Chelsea. Since then, he has invested an estimated 764 million euros in the club, mainly for transfer fees and salaries. He is frequently seen at Stamford Bridge, but also sometimes visited Away matches of FC Chelsea, for example, in the Champions League. This won his first club in the season 2011 /2012.
In addition, he has by his minority stake in Sibneft on small shares in the Russian club CSKA Moscow. In addition, he was able to persuade the Dutch success coach Guus Hiddink, Russia to train since 2006 (until 2010).
Abramovich is among other things owns three yachts: the construction of the mega - yacht Pelorus at the Lürssen shipyard based in Bremen-Vegesack/Lemwerder that was previously given by the Saudi statesman Al Sheik Modhassan in order, cost 254 million euro. 2004 was followed by a 12 million euro more expensive remodeling with subsequent repainting ( striking: Hull beige, pure white building ) on the Hamburg shipyard Blohm Voss. With its 115 meters length, it is among the largest yachts in the world at No. 21 (as of May 11, 2012 ), directly followed by Abramovich's 108.3 -meter-long yacht Le Grand Bleu, which he sold to his friend Yevgeny Schwidler in June 2006 has. He also still has the 85.95 -meter-long L' Ecstasea, built in 2001 at Feadship Royal Van Lent. She is currently ranked 29th in the superyacht ranking (measured by length) and achieved with a General Electric LM2500 gas turbine and two diesel engines, a top speed of 36 knots. Following the sale of Le Grand Bleu Abramovich has purchased a new mega - yacht: the Eclipse was built by Blohm Voss. The yacht is currently 163 meters long, the second largest yacht in the world. Abramovich also owns nor the almost 50 -meter-long yacht Sussurro and two submarines, which he bought for 16.9 and 3.9 million euros. The maintenance cost of this amount annually to approximately 1.3 million euros.
In Garmisch -Partenkirchen Abramovich bought the directing Schlössl and had it renovated by 2002, and expand artistic SHapINg in 1999.
Since 2004, he has the Château de la Cro in Antibes, which has since been extensively renovated.
In 2008 he bought the paintings of Francis Bacon " Triptych " (1976), for € 57.2 million and " Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" ( 1995) by Lucian Freud for 22.36 million euros. Abramovich's girlfriend, Daria Zhukova, opened in September 2008 in Moscow an art gallery.
Family
Abramovich was married from 1987 to 1989 divorce with wife Olga, who brought a child into the marriage. In 1991 he married Irina, an Aeroflot stewardess, with whom he had five children. The newspaper News of the World reported on 15 October 2006 that a photojournalist would have revealed that Abramovich had a brief relationship with a 23 -year-olds. Since March 2007 he has been divorced from his wife Irina. His girlfriend Daria Zhukova means. The first child of the two, named Aaron Alexander, was born on December 4, 2009 in Los Angeles. On April 15, 2013 their second child was born in New York City to the world, it bears the name Lea Lou.
Trivia
A figure of Guy Ritchie film Rock N Rolla is modeled after him.