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
Arkady Rotenberg and a £8 million apartment in London. The couple's lawyers had obtained a secrecy order preventing media in the U.K. from reporting on the divorce, but the order was overturned on appeal. He has five children including Igor () who is a Russian billionaire businessman, Liliya () who is a doctor and lives in Germany, son Paul () who is a competitive hockey player, and two other children that live in the United Kingdom with his former second wife Nataliya. Arkady Rotenberg Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg (, born December 15, 1951 in Leningrad) is a Russian businessman and tycoon. With his