Arkady Rotenberg Rotenberg was born in 1951 in Leningrad, where his father, Roman, worked in management at the Red Dawn telephone factory, allowing the family to avoid living in a communal apartment. Rotenberg is of Jewish ancestry. In 1963, when he was age twelve, Rotenberg and Vladimir Putin both joined Anatoly Rakhlin's sambo club. In 1978, Rotenberg graduated from the Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health and became a judo trainer. After Putin returned to Russia in 1990, Rotenberg trained with him several times a week. During the 1990s, Rotenberg and his brother, Boris, who had moved to
Igor Rotenberg Real Estate Holdings Ltd. Alexander Ponomarenko and Aleksandr Skorobogatko own 66.6% of TPC Real Estates Holdings. It was reported that Arkady Rotenberg made this move after being placed on the U.S. sanctions list. In 2015, OJCS TPS Real Estate () is one of the largest commercial real estate developers in Russia that manages several shopping centers in Russia and Ukraine. It is 100% owned by TPS Real Estate Holding Ltd. It owns the Krasnodar Gallery (), Sochi's Moremoll (), and Kiev's Ocean Plaza (). It is building the Novosibirsk Gallery () and Moscow's Slavyansky Boulevard metro station and Polezhayevskaya metro