Roman Abramovich's career in business ... and his father was killed in a construction-crane accident. Abramovich spent much of his childhood living with his uncle in Komi, in northern Russia.

Today the venue is casually known by locals as the Roman Abramovich Stadium. Israel was another obvious potential sanctuary for Abramovich, orphaned at three and cast as an outsider in childhood, ...

Roman Abramovich, 37, one of the youngest and most influential of Russia's oligarchs, remained largely unknown until recently. Few people even knew what Abramovich, once called the "stealth ...