Boris Romanovich Rotenberg Boris Romanovich Rotenberg Boris Romanovich Rotenberg (, born in Leningrad on 3 January 1957) is a Russian business man and oligarch. He is co-owner (with his brother Arkady Rotenberg) of the SGM (StroyGazMontazh) group, the largest construction company for gas pipelines and electrical power supply lines in Russia. He was listed by Forbes as Russia's 69th wealthiest person in 2016 with a net worth of $1.07 billion. He is considered a close confidant of president Vladimir Putin. Rotenberg was very involved in martial arts between 1968 and 1978, particularly judo. He trained alongside Vladimir Putin and won several awards for
Arkady Aronov the Weizmann Institute of Science. In the 1990s, he visited University of Karlsruhe for extended periods of time, and he also became an Associate Member of the scientific staff of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Arkady Aronov died in November 1994 in Rehovot as a result of a heart attack. During his career, Arkady Aronov supervised a number of PhD theses including these of Evgeny Ivchenko, Boris Spivak, Boris Altshuler, Alexey Ioselevich, Aleksander Zyuzin, and Alexander Mirlin. The fields in which Arkady Aronov contributed the most are In 1975, together with late Gennady Bir and with Grigory Pikus,