A·bram·o·vich, Ro·man /æˈbræməvɪtʃ, rəʊˈmɑːn $ -roʊ-/ BrE AmE
(1966-)a Russian ↑ billionaire who is thought to be the richest person living in the UK. During the 1990s he made a lot of money in the oil industry. Together with Boris Berezovsky, another rich Russian businessman, he once owned a large oil company called Sibneft. He is also the main owner of Millhouse Capital, a private ↑ investment company, and has many shares in companies that produce ↑ steel and ↑ aluminium . Newspapers often describe him as one of the Russian ↑ oligarch s . Abramovich is the owner of Chelsea football club and is known for spending a lot of money on new players for the team. In 2000 he was elected Governor of Chukotka, a province in the Far East of Russia.