Roman Abramovich

Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich Russian Роман Аркадьевич Абрамович Hebrew רומן ארקדיביץ אברמוביץ born 24 October 1966 is a Russian oligarch and politician He is the former owner of Chelsea a Premier League football club in London England and is the primary owner of the private investment company Millhouse LLC He has Russian Israeli and Portuguese citizenship He was formerly Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug from 2000 to 2008 According to Forbes Abramovichs net worth was US145 billion in 2021 making him the secondrichest person in Israel the eleventhrichest in Russia and the richest person in Portugal Abramovich enriched himself in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s obtaining Russian stateowned assets at prices far below market value in Russias controversial loansforshares privatisation program Abramovich is considered to have a good relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin an allegation Abramovich denied Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich was born on 24 October 1966 in Saratov Russian SFSR Soviet Union presentday Saratov Russia His family was of Jewish descent and died when he was young His mother Irina 19391967 was a music teacher who died when Abramovich was one years old His father Aaron Abramovich Leibovich 19371969 worked in the economic council of the Komi ASSR and passed away when Roman was three Romans maternal grandparents were Vasily Mikhailenko and Faina Borisovna Grutman both born in Ukraine It was to Saratov in the early days of World War II that Romans maternal grandmother fled from Ukraine Irina was then three years old Romans paternal grandparents Nachman Leibovich and Toybe Tatyana Stepanovna Abramovich were Belarusian Jews They lived in Belarus and after the revolution moved to Tauragė Lithuania with the Lithuanian spelling of the family name being Abramavičius In 1940 the Soviet Union USSR annexed Lithuania Just before the Nazi German invasion of the USSR the Soviets cleared the antiSoviet criminal and socially dangerous element with whole families being sent to Siberia Abramovichs grandparents were separated when deported The father mother and children Leib Abram and Aron Arkady were in different cars Many of the deportees died in the camps Among them was the grandfather of Abramovich Nachman Leibovich died in 1942 in the NKVD camp in the settlement of Resheti Krasnoyarsk Territory Having lost both parents before the age of 4 Abramovich was raised by relatives and spent much of his youth in the Komi Republic in northern Russia Abramovich is the Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia and a trustee of the Moscow Jewish Museum Abramovich decided to establish a forest of some 25000 new and rehabilitated trees in memory of Lithuanias Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust plus a virtual memorial and tribute to Lithuanian Jewry Seed a Memory enabling people from all over the world to commemorate their ancestors personal stories by naming a tree and including their name in the memorial Source Article Roman Abramovich from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30