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 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