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 Organizational Structures. Since 2006, he is the owner and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Moscow-based NPV Engineering Group. Since 2008, he is the Vice-President of the design bureau CB "Northern Sea Route" (). Since 2010, he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mosenergo Heat and Power Company. Since 2011, he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of (Burgaz). In 2015, Arkady Rotenberg sold his son Igor Rotenberg a number of assets including up to 79% of Gazprom Drilling (Bureniye), 28% of the road contruction company Mostotrest, and 33.3% of Jersey-based TPS