Boris Romanovich Rotenberg the Soviet Union. In 1992, he became a professional judo trainer in Helsinki. In 1998, he returned to St. Petersburg. In 2001, he and his brother founded the SMP bank, which operates in 40 Russian cities with over 100 branches, more than half of them in the Moscow area. SMP oversees the operation of more than 900 ATM-machines. Based on his friendship with Vladimir Putin, his company became closely aligned with Gazprom. Mr. Rotenberg is a member of the St. Petersburg Connection, a powerful energy lobby under the leadership of Mr. Putin. He was involved in 20 construction projects for
Arkady Kobyakov he enrolled in the Nizhny Novgorod choral chapel of boys (now Nizhny Novgorod choral College. L. K. Sivukhina), where he learned the rudiments of music on piano. The grandmother played an important role in the education of Arkady — she instilled in him a love for music, learned to accept life for what it is, and treat everything philosophically. When Arkady was still a child, his mother left the family, leaving him with his father, and in the future showed no interest in the fate of Arkady. His musical education Arkady to finish was not to be. Because of his