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 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