
Roman Abramovich headed the list of the richest people of Great Britain, compiled by The Sunday Times .
According to the British edition on Sunday, a 37-year-old Russian, the owner of the Chelsea football club, houses in the London district of Belgrivia and estates in the county of the West Sussex, fell into such a prestigious list for the first time.
Abramovich’s condition is estimated at 7.5 billion pounds, his growth rate is about 440 million pounds a year or 50 thousand pounds per hour, the newspaper notes.
Recently, the businessman’s property was replenished with a yacht for 72 million pounds, the content of which costs another 7 million pounds a year, and the crew of the vessel has 40 people.
Abramovich ousted from the top of the list of the richest people the kingdom of the Duke of Westminster, who previously traditionally occupied first place with his real estate empire worth 5 billion pounds.
According to the authors of the study, "the aristocracy fades into the background in the list, it is overshadowed by millionaires who have achieved well -being on their own."
The top ten British rich also includes the owner of the retail stores Philip Green, the steel king Lakshmi Mittal, the owner of Formula 1 Formula 1 ".
The 14-month is occupied by businessman Boris Berezovsky with 1.8 billion pounds, the 40s-singer and musician Sir Paul McCartney with 760 million pounds. On the 81st line is the owner of the Harrods department store Mohammed al-Faid, the 91st place is the author of the books about Harry Potter Joan Rowling. In total, the list includes a thousand rich people from the United Kingdom and 200 of the neighboring Irish Republic.
In addition, The Sunday Times has published a separate list of the richest young British, including mainly athletes, musicians, actors and computer specialists under the age of 30.
The list of The Sunday Times is a recognized guide to the welfare in the UK and Ireland. "Our millionaires are rich in the faster in the world. Now we have a fertile period. We have a stable economy, low inflation and interest rates, a high level of employment, an increase in housing demand and consumer goods, and stability as a whole," the List of Philip Beresford said.