Roman Abramovich Biography

Roman Abramovich is a Russian businessman, investor and a politician, who happens to be one of the richest men in the world. He is widely regarded as a self-made man, who came from a very humble childhood and created his own empire through his hard work and incredible self-confidence while conducting business deals. His riches grew wild when he became the owner of a private investment firm Millhouse LLC and his biggest claim to fame outside Russia is as the owner of the ace English football club, Chelsea. Roman was enlisted in the Russian army for short time; he came out of it and started doing jobs here and there to survive and slowly, he raised up through the money he saved, borrowed investments and started five companies of his own. Roman’s biggest financial breakthrough came when he became chairman of Comfort Co-Op. Roman forayed into politics after getting elected as governor of Chukotka in 2000 and 3 years later, he was honoured with the ‘Order of Honour’ for all the work he did as the governor and businessman. He stays good friends with Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, and is slowly climbing up the ladder to become the biggest business icon and the richest man in Russia.