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 Burdan for varsity teams such as Columbia, Ohio State, Penn State, St. John's, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Harvard, and Yale. Arkady Burdan Maestro Arkady Burdan (born April 7, 1944) is an American fencing coach of Soviet descent. He is the two-time Olympic Fencing Coach for the United States (Athens 2004, Beijing 2008). Maestro Burdan was the United States Fencing Association's Elite Coach of the Year (2002) and he was inducted into the US Fencing Hall of Fame in 2009. He is also the founder of the Arkady Burdan Foundation, a non-profit centered on enriching the physical, academic, and character development of