Roman Rotenberg personal life. Roman Rotenberg - Russian entrepreneur and hockey functionary
Recently, quite often, divorces of the rich and famous turn into a battle to the death between ex-spouses. However, this does not always happen. We remembered which of the stars, businessmen and officials managed to part ways peacefully.
Tigran Keosayan and Alena Khmelnitskaya
It seemed that director Tigran Keosayan and actress Alena Khmelnitskaya were one of the strongest creative unions in our country. Two daughters, 20 years of experience in family life - no joke. Even Fyodor Bondarchuk liked to tell in an interview how he left home with his then-future wife because of a conflict with his father (Sergei Fedorovich did not accept his daughter-in-law) and lived for a long time with the young Khmelnitskaya and Keosayan, who cordially sheltered them.
Knowledgeable people, of course, discussed the director's temperament in narrow circles, but his wife for many years had enough wisdom, tact and feminine instinct to save the marriage.
However, the inevitable still happened. The editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV channel and the head of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency, as well as a columnist for the Russian Pioneer magazine, Margarita Simonyan first discovered literary talents in Tigran Keosayan, and then other positive qualities. And if just a month ago secular gossips were talking in low tones about the fact that the director is the father of Simonyan’s second child, now no one denies this fact.
True, Margarita Simonyan was still offended by journalist Bozhena Rynska and public figure Alfred Koch for publishing information about her novel.
As for the beautiful Alena Khmelnitskaya, she, according to rumors, quickly coped with the bitterness of parting. The husband left without taking anything extra with him. And soon Khmelnitskaya completely found a new knight - such a woman will not be left alone.
Perhaps there was no more influential couple on domestic television. It is Konstantin Ernst and Larisa Sinelshchikova who decide and continue to decide what millions of Russian (and not only - Channel One has a colossal audience abroad) television viewers will watch.
By the way, the relationship between Ernst and Sinelshchikova was never registered; the couple has no children together.
From his first marriage, Konstantin Lvovich has a 19-year-old daughter, and Larisa Vasilievna became a mother twice even before she met Konstantin Lvovich. For many years, the common-law wife of the main Russian media manager was also his reliable support in business. The company she owns, Red Square, is the main supplier of content for Channel One.
The family life of this couple was hidden behind seven seals. However, Forbes magazine was the first to decide in July 2014 to announce their separation as a fait accompli:
“The breakdown of relations between Sinelshchikova and Ernst did not affect business. Moreover, last year the volume of production (“Red Square” - Woman.ru’s note) for the First increased.” So Konstantin Ernst and Larisa Sinelshchikova are not a couple, but a tandem. Parted with jewelry precision.
Erwin Schrott and Anna Netrebko
One of the brightest opera divas, Anna Netrebko, and her future common-law husband, Uruguayan tenor Erwin Schrott, met while working together on the opera Don Giovanni. The Latin American could not resist the incredible charisma and charm of the Russian star. The result is 6 years of marriage. During pregnancy, Anna, according to her father, even got ready to marry, but it didn’t work out. Now, it seems, this is only for the better - the formalities, without which the dissolution of a marriage cannot be done, do not distract two creative individuals from their immediate activities.
It was difficult for opera singers to live with each other, and not only because the neighbors were unlikely to tolerate home concerts of such a loud couple, but also, first of all, because of the extremely busy schedule of both.
According to Netrebko, it was the impossibility of spending time together that was the main reason that he and Schrott moved away from each other and, in the end, decided to separate.
However, the ex-lovers will do everything possible to ensure that their common son Thiago feels the care of both his father and mother. In addition, they managed to maintain good relations.
The diva was not alone for long - it became known that she was already engaged to the Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov. Apparently, Anna is much less worried about the schedule of his performances, unlike the schedule of her ex-lover.
Dmitry Peskov met his future wife Ekaterina even before she came of age. The romance between the daughter of diplomats and a 24-year-old graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Studies broke out unexpectedly, and the lovers arranged a wedding as soon as the bride turned 18 years old. As a result, the Peskovs lived together for 20 years, overcoming periods of desperate lack of money and other difficult moments.
The woman was ready to put up with even her husband’s difficult work schedule, which involved frequent flights and sleepless nights, but could not forgive him for his betrayal. As Catherine herself told Tatler magazine, having learned about her husband’s adultery, she suggested he break up.
Ekaterina and Dmitry approached the divorce like real diplomats - they divided their three children and jointly acquired property with an ease unusual for most powerful people, and they managed to maintain not only a positive public image of the family, but also good relationships. The ex-wife of Vladimir Putin's press secretary decided that it was best to start a new life in Paris.
Dmitry Peskov, unlike his leader Vladimir Putin, did not publicly announce changes in his marital status. His ex-wife did this for him, giving an interview directly from her new home in France.
According to rumors, the reason for the separation of Dmitry and Ekaterina Peskov was the Olympic figure skating champion Tatyana Navka, in whose company the high-ranking official increasingly appears in public. In addition, Dmitry Sergeevich is called the father of the star’s second child, whom she gave birth to on August 21.
Mark and Ida Lolo
Socialite beauty Ida Lolo and ex-president of the Central Partnership film company Mark Lolo have been married for 6 years. The couple's romance developed rapidly: they met a mutual friend at dinner.
And a month later, on his beloved’s birthday, he proposed marriage to her. And almost in an uncontested form: “I want you to become my wife.”
The athlete and social activist supported her husband at a difficult moment when he had to leave the Central Sports School. And who would have thought that Ida and Mark, who posted cute photos together on Instagram from an Austrian vacation in January 2013, would decide to divorce less than a month later?
“It all ended quickly, just as it began: one fine day something clicked. Yes, we are still family and close friends. But they ceased to exist as a man and a woman,” Lolo said in an interview with Tatler magazine. According to the girl, she and her ex-husband were just sitting in the kitchen in a shared apartment on Ostozhenka and realized that the moment had come, it was time to have a serious conversation.
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Divorce of Ida and Mark Lolodiscussed throughout secular Moscow. However, the couple gave few reasons - they separated as intelligent people, having managed to maintain a warm relationship.
They didn’t share anything, and of the common “children” the couple had only the pug Zach, who had no choice about who to stay with.
Fortunately, both did not suffer alone - a year later, Ida Lolo married her boyfriend Alexei Kiselev and was truly happy with him. Her ex-husband also found his happiness. Now they are family friends.
Maxim and Tatyana Liksutov
The capital's brides breathed a sigh of relief - the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport, Maxim Liksutov, acquired the status of “free”. But the reason for the separation of the most attractive official from his wife was not some busty blonde, as one might assume, but Liksutov’s “special” position.
Before joining the metropolitan government, the future specialist in combating traffic jams and eliminating free parking made himself an impressive fortune (and at the same time secured a position in the Forbes magazine ranking) in coal and cargo transportation. Moreover, Maxim Liksutov, who, like his wife Tatyana, was born in Estonia, became a Russian citizen not so long ago.
So, after the adoption of a law banning officials from doing business abroad, the newly appointed deputy mayor had a hard time - he renounced both foreign citizenship and assets. The billionaire faced an acute question: to whom should he sell the shares? It would seem that there are many options. But his own wife, a beauty and former model, had no competitors in this difficult situation.
Less than a month (in fact, even a week) had passed since the settlement of financial issues, when the couple decided to separate. Peacefully, without unnecessary noise. Moreover, Tatyana has nothing to complain about - having returned to her native Estonia, she became the richest woman in the country.
However, according to Tatler magazine, Sergei Sobyanin’s associate completely denies any business motive for the divorce - the reasons are exclusively personal. Here, as in Zemfira’s song: “Everything might have been different if not for these terrible traffic jams.”
Ilya Zmievets and Maria Nevskaya
The head of the Parlan publishing house, Ilya Zmievets, saw the charming model from Tyumen, Maria Nevskaya, when she arrived to shoot the cover of LOfficiel magazine, headed by Evelina Khromchenko. This meeting was truly fateful for all three.
Zmievets laid siege to the beauty's heart for six months - he spared no energy, no imagination, no resources. In the end, the fortress fell. Alas, the love boat of Maria Nevskaya and Ilya Zmievets ran into reefs in 2013.
The couple decided to separate with minimal emotional loss, but their mutual friends assure that reconciliation is still possible. Maria, by the way, returned to her first lesson and has already starred in the lookbook of the new collection of designer Alexander Terekhov.
Arkady and Natalya Rotenberg
Without exaggeration, Arkady Rotenberg can be called one of the most influential people in Russia. And it’s not just about the notorious money - the future billionaire strengthened his body and spirit from the age of 13 on the tatami in sparring with the equally young Vladimir Putin. That's how we became friends.
The divorce of Arkady and Natalya Rotenberg would have passed silently if the ex-wife of the billionaire had not decided to reconsider the terms of the marriage contract, which she herself had once signed. But having critically assessed her husband’s condition (and this, for a moment, is over 3 billion dollars), the woman decided that she could claim much more serious compensation for the collapsed family.
All five children born in the marriage agreed with her. Negotiations on the division of assets and other property between the former spouses have been going on for almost a year and, they say, the light at the end of the tunnel is already visible. Unlike many ladies in a similar position, Rotenberg’s ex-wife does not flaunt his heirs and does not threaten in court and the media to declassify information that could harm the businessman’s business and personal reputation.
Until the process is completed, Natalya lives in a rented house in London with funds raised from the rental of Moscow real estate, which she already inherited from her ex-husband.
By the way, this is not the only divorce in the Rotenberg family over the past few years. The billionaire's nephew, president of the SKA hockey club and dazzling handsome man Roman Rotenberg (one of the most notable womanizers of the two capitals), broke up with his wife, Latvian model Marta Berzkalna, six months after the wedding. The slender brunette chose to return the wedding ring to her husband, despite the fact that at that moment she was 5 months pregnant. The couple had nothing to share during the six months they lived together, but Roman did not abandon the child to the mercy of fate.
Recently, quite often, divorces of the rich and famous turn into a battle to the death between ex-spouses. However, this does not always happen. We remembered which of the stars, businessmen and officials managed to part ways peacefully.
Tigran Keosayan and Alena Khmelnitskaya
Alena Khmelnitskaya and Tigran Keosayan seemed one of the strongest couples in Russian cinema
It seemed that director Tigran Keosayan and actress Alena Khmelnitskaya were one of the strongest creative unions in our country. Two daughters, 20 years of experience in family life - no joke. Even Fyodor Bondarchuk liked to tell in an interview how he and his then-future wife left home due to a conflict with his father (Sergei Fedorovich did not accept his daughter-in-law) and lived for a long time with the young Khmelnitskaya and Keosayan, who cordially sheltered them.
Knowledgeable people, of course, discussed the director's temperament in narrow circles, but his wife for many years had enough wisdom, tact and feminine instinct to save the marriage.
Nevertheless, the inevitable still happened. The editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV channel and the head of the Rossiya Segodnya news agency, as well as a columnist for the Russian Pioneer magazine, Margarita Simonyan first discovered literary talents in Tigran Keosayan, and then other positive qualities. And if just a month ago secular gossips were talking in low tones about the fact that the director is the father of Simonyan’s second child, now no one denies this fact.
According to rumors (neither side has officially confirmed this yet), Tigran Keosayan is preparing to become a father very soon
True, Margarita Simonyan was still offended by journalist Bozhena Rynska and public figure Alfred Koch for publishing information about her novel.
As for the beautiful Alena Khmelnitskaya, she, according to rumors, quickly coped with the bitterness of parting. The husband left without taking anything extra with him. And soon Khmelnitskaya found a new knight - such a woman will not be left alone.
Konstantin Ernst and Larisa Sinelshchikova
Perhaps there was no more influential couple on domestic television. It was Konstantin Ernst and Larisa Sinelshchikova who decided and continue to decide what millions of Russian (and not only - Channel One has a colossal audience abroad) television viewers will watch.
By the way, the relationship between Ernst and Sinelshchikova was never registered; the couple has no children together.
From his first marriage, Konstantin Lvovich has a 19-year-old daughter, and Larisa Vasilievna became a mother twice even before she met Konstantin Lvovich. For many years, the common-law wife of the main Russian media manager was also his reliable support in business. The company she owns, Red Square, is the main supplier of content for Channel One.
Konstantin Ernst and Larisa Sinelshchikova were the most influential couple in the domestic media space. Now they may not be a couple, but they are still the most influential partner tandem
The family life of this couple was hidden behind seven seals. However, Forbes magazine was the first to decide in July 2014 to announce their separation as a fait accompli:
“The breakdown of relations between Sinelshchikova and Ernst did not affect business. Moreover, last year the volume of production (“Red Square”) for the First increased.” So Konstantin Ernst and Larisa Sinelshchikova are not a couple, but a tandem. Parted with jewelry precision.
Konstantin Ernst does not advertise his personal life
Larisa Sinelshchikova knows exactly what projects the Red Square company owned by her (and now also by Arkady Rotenberg) should produce so that Channel One’s ratings remain consistently high
Erwin Schrott and Anna Netrebko
One of the brightest opera divas, Anna Netrebko, and her future common-law husband, Uruguayan tenor Erwin Schrott, met while working together on the opera Don Giovanni. The Latin American could not resist the incredible charisma and charm of the Russian star. The result is 6 years of marriage. During pregnancy, Anna, according to her father, even got ready to marry, but it didn’t work out. Now, it seems, this is only for the better - the formalities, without which the dissolution of a marriage cannot be done, do not distract two creative individuals from their immediate activities.
It was difficult for the opera singers to live with each other, and not only because the neighbors were unlikely to tolerate home concerts of such a loud couple, but also, first of all, because of the extremely busy schedule of both.
According to Netrebko, it was the impossibility of spending time together that was the main reason that he and Schrott moved away from each other and ultimately decided to separate.
Anna Netrebko and Erwin Schrott were not officially married, but lived together for 6 years
Nevertheless, the ex-lovers will do everything possible to ensure that their common son Thiago feels the care of both his father and mother. In addition, they managed to maintain good relations.
The diva was not alone for long - it became known that she was already engaged to the Azerbaijani tenor Yusif Eyvazov. Apparently, Anna is much less worried about the schedule of his performances, unlike the schedule of her ex-lover.
Most recently, the opera diva celebrated her engagement to another tenor, Yusif Eyvazov.
Dmitry and Ekaterina Peskov
Dmitry Peskov met his future wife Ekaterina even before she came of age. The romance between the daughter of diplomats and a 24-year-old graduate of the Institute of Asian and African Studies broke out unexpectedly, and the lovers arranged a wedding as soon as the bride turned 18 years old. As a result, the Peskovs lived together for 20 years, overcoming periods of desperate lack of money and other difficult moments.
Dmitry and Ekaterina Peskov broke up after 20 years of marriage
The woman was ready to put up with even her husband’s difficult work schedule, which involved frequent flights and sleepless nights, but could not forgive him for his betrayal. As Catherine herself told Tatler magazine, having learned about her husband’s adultery, she suggested he break up.
Ekaterina and Dmitry approached the divorce like real diplomats - they divided their three children and jointly acquired property with an ease unusual for most powerful people, and they managed to maintain not only a positive public image of the family, but also good relationships. The ex-wife of Vladimir Putin's press secretary decided that it was best to start a new life in Paris.
Dmitry Peskov approached the separation like a real man and diplomat and did not deprive his ex-wife of anything
Dmitry Peskov, unlike his leader Vladimir Putin, did not publicly announce changes in his marital status. His ex-wife did this for him, giving an interview directly from her new home in France.
According to rumors, the reason for the separation of Dmitry and Ekaterina Peskov was Olympic figure skating champion Tatyana Navka, in whose company the high-ranking official increasingly appears in public. In addition, Dmitry Sergeevich is called the father of the star’s second child, whom she gave birth to on August 21.
Mark and Ida Lolo
Socialite beauty Ida Lolo and ex-president of the Central Partnership film company Mark Lolo have been married for 6 years. The couple's romance developed rapidly: they met a mutual friend at dinner.
Ida Lolo admitted in an interview with Tatler magazine that she and her ex-husband simply at some point both realized that it was time to dot all the i’s
And a month later, on his beloved’s birthday, Mark proposed marriage to her. And almost in an uncontested form: “I want you to become my wife.”
The athlete and social activist supported her husband at a difficult moment when he had to leave the Central Sports School. And who would have thought that Ida and Mark, who posted cute photos together on Instagram from an Austrian vacation in January 2013, would decide to divorce less than a month later?
“It all ended quickly, just as it began: one fine day something clicked. Yes, we are still family and close friends. But they ceased to exist as a man and a woman,” Lolo said in an interview with Tatler magazine. According to the girl, she and her ex-husband were just sitting in the kitchen in a shared apartment on Ostozhenka and realized that the moment had come, it was time to have a serious conversation.
The divorce of Ida and Mark Lolo was discussed throughout secular Moscow. However, the couple gave few reasons - they separated as intelligent people, having managed to maintain a warm relationship.
They didn’t share anything, and of the common “children” the couple had only the pug Zach, who had no choice about who to stay with.
Now Ida Lolo is married to Alesei Kiselev (an active producer and restaurateur, as well as the son of the famous TV presenter and producer Evgeny Kiselev). Alexey, by the way, has a son from his first marriage
Fortunately, both did not suffer alone - a year later Ida Lolo married her boyfriend Alexei Kiselev and was truly happy with him. Her ex-husband also found his happiness. Now they are family friends.
Mark Lolo, who founded his own company Dramteam Media after leaving TsPS, also found a new love in the person of Yulia Charysheva
Maxim and Tatyana Liksutov
Deputy Mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov again became an eligible bachelor
The capital's brides breathed a sigh of relief - Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport Maxim Liksutov acquired the status of “free”. But the reason for the separation of the most attractive official from his wife was not some busty blonde, as one might assume, but Liksutov’s “special” position.
Before joining the metropolitan government, the future specialist in combating traffic jams and eliminating free parking made himself an impressive fortune (and at the same time secured a position in the Forbes magazine ranking) in coal and cargo transportation. Moreover, Maxim Liksutov, who, like his wife Tatyana, was born in Estonia, became a Russian citizen not so long ago.
So, after the adoption of the law banning officials from doing business abroad, the newly appointed deputy mayor had a hard time - he renounced both foreign citizenship and assets. The billionaire faced an acute question: to whom should he sell the shares? It would seem that there are many options. But his own wife, a beauty and former model, had no competitors in this difficult situation.
Less than a month (in fact, even a week) had passed since the settlement of financial issues, when the couple decided to separate. Peacefully, without unnecessary noise. Moreover, Tatyana has nothing to complain about - having returned to her native Estonia, she became the richest woman in the country.
Now Maxim Liksutov can most often be seen in society... his boss, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin
However, according to Tatler magazine, Sergei Sobyanin’s associate completely denies any business motive for the divorce - the reasons are exclusively personal. Here, as in Zemfira’s song: “Everything might have been different if not for these terrible traffic jams.”
Evgeny Zmievets and Maria Nevskaya
Evgeny Zmievets fell in love with model Maria Nevskaya at first sight. Later, his wife replaced Evelina Khromchenko as editor-in-chief of the L'Officiel magazine he then published.
The head of the Parlan publishing house, Evgeny Zmievets, saw the charming model from Tyumen, Maria Nevskaya, when she arrived to shoot the cover of L'Officiel magazine, headed by Evelina Khromchenko. This meeting became truly fateful for all three.
Zmievets laid siege to the beauty's heart for six months - he spared no energy, no imagination, no resources. Eventually the fortress fell.
From the podium, Nevskaya went straight to the editorial office of L "Officiel - first as a fashion editor. And the head of the publishing house, who considered his newly-made wife a “genius,” and Evelina Khromchenko (as we all remember) had “irreconcilable contradictions,” which resulted in the latter’s high-profile departure from the publication.
Following Evelina, by the way, many advertisers left, so the first issue, released under the leadership of the former model, turned out to be much thinner than the previous ones. The respected magazine lived in this format for some more time, and then closed completely at the insistence of the international office.
Maria Nevskaya does not rule out that separation from her husband is not the final point, but a pause. It is quite possible that the reunion of this beautiful couple will take place after all.
Alas, the love boat of Maria Nevskaya and Evgeny Zmievets ran into reefs in 2013.
The couple decided to separate with minimal emotional loss, but their mutual friends assure that reconciliation is still possible. Maria, by the way, returned to her first lesson and has already starred in the lookbook of the new collection of designer Alexander Terekhov.
Arkady and Natalya Rotenberg
Arkady Rotenberg, one of the richest and most influential people in Russia, decided to follow the example of his friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and divorce his wife. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any photos of her.
Without exaggeration, Arkady Rotenberg can be called one of the most influential people in Russia. And it’s not just about the notorious money - the future billionaire strengthened his body and spirit from the age of 13 on the tatami in sparring with the equally young Vladimir Putin. That's how we became friends.
The divorce of Arkady and Natalya Rotenberg would have passed silently if the ex-wife of the billionaire had not decided to reconsider the terms of the marriage contract, which she herself had once signed. But, having critically assessed her husband’s condition (and this, for a moment, is over 3 billion dollars), the woman decided that she could claim much more serious compensation for the collapsed family.
All five children born in the marriage agreed with her. Negotiations on the division of assets and other property between the former spouses have been going on for almost a year, and they say that the light at the end of the tunnel is already visible. Unlike many ladies in a similar position, Rotenberg’s ex-wife does not flaunt his heirs and does not threaten in court and the media to declassify information that could harm the businessman’s business and personal reputation.
Until the process is completed, Natalya lives in a rented house in London with funds raised from the rental of Moscow real estate, which she already inherited from her ex-husband.
By the way, this is not the only divorce in the Rotenberg family over the past few years.
His nephew Roman Rottenberg is an eligible bachelor whose marriage did not last longer than six months
The billionaire's nephew, president of the SKA hockey club and dazzling handsome man Roman Rotenberg (one of the most notable womanizers of the two capitals), broke up with his wife, Latvian model Marta Berzkalna, six months after the wedding.
The slender brunette chose to return the wedding ring to her husband, despite the fact that at that moment she was 5 months pregnant. The couple had nothing to share during the six months they lived together, but Roman did not abandon the child to the mercy of fate.
The most important thing about the Rotenbergs.
It all started in the 60s, when Arkady Rotenberg and Boris Rotenberg signed up for the same Leningrad sambo section with Vladimir Putin. The children became friends and spent a lot of time together. When they grew up, Putin went to work in the authorities and left Russia, Arkady got a job as a coach, and Boris got a job in the police.
In the 2000s, when Putin became president of Russia, the Rotenbergs rose to the very top. They founded the Northern Sea Route bank and established work with Gazprom, and also began to receive large government contracts. In February 2016, Forbes ranked Arkady Rotenberg first in the “Kings of Government Contracts” ranking. Now, even despite foreign sanctions, Arkady and Boris remain in the Forbes top 100. Each person's fortune is estimated at $1 billion.
Having become one of the richest families in Russia, the Rotenbergs maintained an interest in Russian sports. Moreover, their influence is only growing.
Arkady Rotenberg, 64 years old
In the 90s, Putin had just returned from the GDR, Boris Rotenberg went to Finland, and Arkady never left. In St. Petersburg, he was involved in the affairs of the School of Higher Sports Excellence on Kamenny Island. Putin sometimes came to that school, and Arkady Rotenberg was often his sparring partner.
In 1998, Rotenberg, together with Gennady Timchenko, created the Yavara-Neva judo sports club in St. Petersburg. At the end of the 2000s, when the Rotenbergs’ business turnover was already billions of dollars, many still called the club, which did not bring in serious money, Arkady’s main asset. Its honorary president is Putin, and it is believed that this helped Rotenberg establish many necessary connections. Now Rotenberg is the first vice-president of the Russian Judo Federation.
People whom Rotenberg met through sports still occupy high positions in his non-sports companies. Example: having created the Pipe Metal Rolling company in 2007, Rotenberg put an old acquaintance in charge of it - a former wrestler and coach, president of the Greco-Roman Wrestling Federation, Yuri Bukin. They say that in the structures of Arkady Rotenberg, the corporate culture is built on the idea of loyalty - to the company and to Rotenberg personally. Control is everywhere: the security service reads mail and taps employee phones. At the same time, the businessman himself trusts his top managers; employees of many of his companies almost never see Rotenberg.
Figure: in 2013, Bloomberg calculated that Arkady Rotenberg’s companies received projects for $7.4 billion. Rotenberg’s most current construction project is the Kerch Bridge.
Since October, Arkady Rotenberg has been the chairman of the board of the FHR. The FHR has a president - Vladislav Tretyak, but in fact, the main person in Russian hockey is Rotenberg. Before taking up his post at the FHR, Rotenberg was the president of the hockey team Dynamo (Moscow). A few months before his departure, the club began to delay wages. Vedomosti wrote: Rotenberg could have left due to the fact that he could not agree with VTB on who would give money to Dynamo.
Now Arkady Rotenberg is associated with an ambitious project for the hockey team Dynamo St. Petersburg. The head of the club is Natalya Skarlygina, in the media she is called a close friend of Arkady. Back in 2013, the club was SDYUSSHOR, now the team already plays in the VHL (the second league in Russia after the KHL). According to Fontanka, the club’s goal is to enter the KHL and compete with SKA.
Words:“There are few differences in the management of sports and business: in both cases, strength of spirit, determination, focus on winning and the team are important.”
Boris Rotenberg Sr., 59 years old
Like Arkady, Boris worked as a martial arts coach in the early 90s, only not in Russia, but in Finland. There, Boris started his own business - he founded a company that supplied Finnish goods to Urengoygazprom.
Now Boris Rotenberg is vice-president of the Russian Judo Federation, but his main sports history is still football. In July 2013, he began building a new Russian top club in Dynamo Moscow. Then, very opportunely, the Anzhi project collapsed; all its stars moved to Moscow (Kokorin, Denisov, Zhirkov, Samba, Gabulov and Ionov). The following summer, Dynamo bought Alexander Büttner from Manchester United, and then made a splash throughout Europe by signing Mathieu Valbuena from Marseille, who immediately became the best player in the Premier League. The Frenchman wanted to take number 28 to Dynamo, but it was occupied by Boris Rotenberg Jr., the son of the club president.
VTB Bank paid for everything - Dynamo's annual budget ($210 million), was second in the country after Zenit. The party ended in 2014, when the crisis erupted in Russia and financial fair play began to rage in Europe. It was not possible to reach an agreement with UEFA - Dynamo became the first club to be eliminated from European competition due to losses. Valbuena returned home, and the players of the Russian national team fled. Dynamo announced that it would now win with young Russian football players, and was immediately relegated to the FNL. Boris Rotenberg left the club in the summer, and a few months later, Dynamo now owes him 75 million euros.
But Büttner is the same Dutchman from Manchester United.
Dynamo is not the only football club with which Boris Rotenberg has been associated. That's what happened when Rostov bought Ecuadorian midfielder Christian Noboa in the summer of 2015. This is the favorite player of coach Kurban Berdyev, but Rostov did not have money for him at that time.
This summer there were reports that Boris Rotenberg was buying shares in Lokomotiv. No one has officially confirmed this yet, but his son has already moved to Lokomotiv. Unofficially: key decisions at Lokomotiv are made by the Rotenberg family. When Lokomotiv was looking for a new coach in August, Kurban Berdyev and a team of his assistants went to an interview not in Cherkizovo, but in St. Petersburg - with Roman Rotenberg.
It recently turned out that Boris Rotenberg is the founder and owner of a full stake in FC Dynamo St. Petersburg LLC (has no relation to the old Dynamo St. Petersburg). You can read what they are going to make from it.
The Rotenbergs could also buy the Italian “Bari”. The Rotenbergs communicated with the owner of a controlling stake in the club through a very interesting person named Konstantin Goloshchapov. According to Novaya Gazeta, in the 90s Goloshchapov was Vladimir Putin's personal massage therapist. In 2000, the president personally transferred him to Moscow and appointed him general director of the federal enterprise Roscentrproekt. Around the same time, Goloshchapov became a partner of the Rotenberg brothers in the Northern Sea Route bank.
Boris Rotenberg does not hide that he would like create a new Formula 1 team in Russia. The businessman has a racing team, SMP Racing, and sometimes competes in races himself. The team’s main base is Sochi Autodrom, which Boris Rotenberg is also said to be involved in managing. The team's most powerful car was designed to participate in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race; the car is called BR01 - it's easy to guess in honor of whom.
Words:“We strive to make Dynamo Moscow profitable. For me, examples are Barcelona, Chelsea and SKA.”
Roman Rotenberg, 35 years old
Boris Rotenberg's son played hockey as a child, but his mother convinced him to go to study in a city where this game is not very popular - London. In 2006, Roman came to work at Gazprom Export. When the head of the company, Alexander Medvedev, began creating the KHL, Roman was involved in the work. Now he says that in those years he achieved nothing: “I was not allowed to realize myself. I was the same with the same last name in the KHL. What did I achieve there? Zero, one might say.”
Soon after Gennady Timchenko became the president of SKA, Roman Rotenberg also found himself there - he began to engage in marketing. Now Everyone praises SKA marketing: in recent years, the team’s popularity in St. Petersburg has jumped, SKA is the second most visited KHL team (the average audience for home matches is 11,300 people). At the same time, it is common knowledge that the club spends the most in the KHL.
In the Russian national hockey team, Roman is the main speaker: he makes uplifting speeches after every great success or failure. He also runs the analytical department and is involved in marketing: it was he who approved the retro slogan “Red car, made in Russia”, with which the team went to the last World Cup.
In addition to SKA, Roman Rotenberg also has influence on other KHL clubs: at least Jokerit (he is a shareholder there), Spartak (the club was revived in the summer of 2015 with the participation of structures close to the Rotenberg family; from SKA to the Moscow club then 24 hockey players moved at once) and the Chinese “Kunlun” (as they say, Roman is its main curator).
In Russia, Rotenberg has several sports-related businesses. In particular, the Sportconcept holding is a distributor of brands such as CCM and a supplier of Under Armour, Adidas, Nike, as well as paraphernalia of KHL hockey clubs and the Russian national team. In the nearest plans of "Sportconcept" - creating your own brand of sports equipment.
Roman Rotenberg is also the founder of the company for the production and distribution of sports nutrition “Doctor Sport”. According to legend, it appeared when Putin saw at a hockey training that KHL President Alexander Medvedev was drinking an energy drink from the USA. Medvedev explained to the president that in Russia they are of poor quality. Putin asked to sort it out - and that’s where the Doctor Sport company began.
Roman Rotenberg has sporting interests abroad. In 2014, he bought the share of Boris Rotenberg Sr. and Arkady Rotenberg in the management company Långvik Capital. So he got a hotel, a development company, 49% of the Finnish club Jokerit and a share in the Hartwall Arena. Roman bought all this after his father and uncle came under sanctions (he himself says that he took out a loan of a couple of tens of millions of dollars for this). True, a year later Roman also came under sanctions - for this reason he had problems traveling to the World Cup of Hockey in North America. According to a representative of the US Embassy in the Russian Federation, Roman was included in the list because helped Boris Rotenberg circumvent sanctions.
Words:“We strive to ensure that KHL clubs are independent of government funding. To do this, you need to make the product attractive. So that young people want to go to hockey, and not to the cinema or to a concert.”
Karina Rotenberg, 37 years old
Boris Rotenberg's wife. Heads the Moscow Equestrian Federation. Karina met her future husband in Monaco after the Zenit-Manchester United match for the European Super Cup. They have three children.
Karina Rotenberg is involved in show jumping (a type of equestrian sport that involves overcoming obstacles) and travels all over the world to competitions. One of the Rotenbergs’ dachas, not far from Monaco, was built specifically for Karina’s classes. In an interview with Tatler, Karina recalls how Boris, after meeting her, tried to impress her and invited her to his stable: “Bora thought these were super horses, but in fact... He didn’t understand anything about them at all then.”
Words:“Boris works a lot. And at the same time he is interested in everyone and everything. One of his sons plays football, the other plays hockey. My husband also supports Russian motorsport. Even in karting he knows all the boy racers by name. They constantly send him some photos and videos. Actively works with judokas and football players.
Sometimes I think: how much is possible? Not because I feel sorry for Boris, he lives by it. Selfishly, I wish there was enough for us too. But my mother periodically reminds: “Kindness is one of the qualities for which you fell in love with him.” It’s just a shame that people take advantage of it, and I can’t do anything.”
Boris Rotenberg Jr., 30 years old
Son of Boris Rotenberg from his first marriage. Now he plays for Lokomotiv, played one match for the Finnish national team.
From 2006 to 2010 he was in the Zenit system, but did not play for the adult team. In 2011 he ended up in Dynamo Moscow, and in 2015 he began to appear in the team. Last spring, Igor Denisov was removed from the Dynamo team - allegedly for calling head coach Stanislav Cherchesov a clown.
Moreover, when Rotenberg was on the field, Dynamo did not lose for a long time.
The evolution of attitudes towards football player Rotenberg - in a survey on the site for 2015.
The footballer spent last season on loan in Rostov, where Berdyev replaced him in the middle of the second half in almost every match. A player was once asked what he thought about salary delays at the club. “There are professionals in Rostov, we go to work every day,” answered the son of one of the richest people in Russia.
This summer, Boris signed a three-year contract with Lokomotiv. The management promised that Rotenberg (although the club has Shishkin, Yanbaev and Logashov in his right-back position), but Boris has not yet appeared in the lineup this season. That same summer there was talk that his father had acquired shares in the club.
The joke about Rotenberg being the only football player in the world who does not play for money will haunt him for the rest of his career. Nevertheless, the defender’s agent Dmitry Selyuk (the same one who does not want to apologize to Guardiola) and many former teammates always stand up for Rotenberg and call him the person who works the hardest in training. “Dynamo didn’t count on Boris,” says agent Selyuk. – And where is this team now? She slipped into the FNL.”
Words:“Wearing a Dynamo jersey, I fight not only for the club, but also for my family. My father raised me to be a man. He knows I won't break."
Pavel Rotenberg
The 16-year-old son of Arkady Rotenberg is a hockey player and plays as a forward. In the winter of this year, I took bronze with the Russian team born in 2000 at the Youth Olympic Games. He won another bronze by traveling with the Russian U-17 team to the World Challenge Cup. Pavel made an assist in the last match with the second Canadian team.
Rotenberg's club is Dynamo St. Petersburg (what his father supports). The club plays in the VHL; Pavel has not yet played for the adult team. He played 10 matches for the St. Petersburg youth team in the MHL, making two assists.
Words:“I don’t feel any difference in how I treat myself. I'm part of the team and try to be a good son to my father. I, like anyone else, am proud to wear the Russian national team jersey. I have a normal daily routine. I wake up, go to school, then I have training off the ice, then on the ice, and then I have dinner and go to bed. Sometimes I go for a walk with friends.”
Infographics – Artem Shmelev
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May 14, 2017Roman Borisovich Rotenberg is a famous Russian entrepreneur, founder of the Doctor Sport chain of sports nutrition stores, sports functionary and, of course, vice president of Gazprombank. His father, Boris Romanovich Rotenberg, is also a famous Russian figure, businessman, co-owner of SPM Bank and vice-president of the Judo Federation.
Career in Entrepreneurship
Roman Rotenberg graduated from high school in Helsinki, where the whole family moved to live in the early 90s of the last century. Later, the young man received a good education in London (master's degree in entrepreneurial management), and, returning to Russia, got a job at Gazprombank. There Roman Borisovich Rotenberg met Alexander Medvedev, the general director of the Gazprom project, quickly built a career ladder and eventually took the position of vice president of the company. Medvedev, by the way, also turned out to be a great admirer of hockey in general and St. Petersburg SKA in particular.
In addition to the sports nutrition business, Roman Borisovich Rotenberg is a co-owner of the Hartavall ice arena in the capital of Finland, Helsinki. The Russian businessman is also the owner of the Finnish company Langvik Capital (a hotel and conference hall in a picturesque area) and the local HC Jokerit, which has been playing in the Kontinental Hockey League since 2014.
Career in sports
It's no secret that the vice president of Gazprombank is a big fan of hockey and even managed to build a career in this field. Over the years, the youthful hobby grew into one of the main priorities, and later became an integral part of life.
Since 2011, Roman Borisovich Rotenberg has become the new vice-president of the SKA hockey club. A photo of the main functionary of the St. Petersburg club, with the Continental Cup won in the 2012/2013 season, can still be seen in the St. Petersburg club museum.
In 2014, Rotenberg was appointed to the position of vice-president of the Russian Hockey Federation and joined the headquarters of the Russian national team.
Rotenberg Roman Borisovich: personal life
The successful Russian businessman in secular society was known as a true admirer and admirer of the fair sex, and for a long time remained a desirable spouse for hundreds of its representatives.
At the age of 26, Roman met the Latvian model Marta Berzkalna, with whom he married a few months after the start of the relationship. The newlyweds often appeared in public, and, at first glance, the couple was absolutely happy, but the family did not last long. At the time of the divorce, Martha was five months pregnant, but this factor did not become an argument for continuing the relationship. However, the former spouse provides decent financial support to the child born.
Roman Borisovich Rotenberg met his next wife in 2012. A girl named Galina became the common-law wife of the Russian businessman and bore him two children: a girl Arina and a boy Roman. As it turned out later, Rotenberg had another son in October 2015. His mother was a famous model in Russia, Margarita Banet.
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Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg is the largest domestic businessman, dollar billionaire and Honored Worker of Physical Culture of the Russian Federation. His name is invariably included in the ranking of the country's richest people, and his professional activities and personal life attract the attention of millions of people. How did Rotenberg manage to get rich? What is the secret of his successful entrepreneurial activity? Answers to these and many other questions can be obtained by reading the biography of Arkady Romanovich.
Childhood, passion for judo
In 1951, Arkady Rotenberg was born into an intelligent family in Leningrad. The billionaire has never hidden his nationality, so it is no secret to anyone that he is Jewish by origin. Arkady's parents taught him sports from early childhood. In elementary school, the boy attended the acrobatics section, and at the age of 12, under the guidance of the famous Leningrad coach Anatoly Solomonovich Rakhlin, he began to master judo. Later, Arkady shared his passion for Japanese martial art with his younger brother Boris, born in 1957.
In judo, Rotenberg showed great promise, repeatedly winning prizes at city Olympics. Rakhlin was pleased with the achievements of his pupil and predicted a brilliant future for him in professional sports, but he subsequently chose coaching. It is noteworthy that at the same time as Rotenberg, Anatoly Solomonovich trained the young Vladimir Putin. Both boys represented the same weight category, thanks to which they repeatedly performed in pairs and traveled together to competitions for young judokas. His passion for wrestling made Rotenberg and Putin good friends, and over time their friendship became even stronger.
Work as a trainer, scientific activity
Soon after graduating from school, Arkady Rotenberg was drafted into the army. The biography of this period of his life looks very vague, since there is no information about where exactly the current oligarch served and what he did immediately after demobilization. At the age of 21, Rotenberg became a student at the State University of Physical Education in Leningrad, which he graduated in 1978. Having received his diploma, he worked as a judo and sambo coach in Leningrad sports schools for the next 15 years. In addition, Rotenberg was actively involved in scientific activities, defending his candidate and doctoral dissertations. He is the author of several dozen books devoted to the organization of the training process in martial arts.
Relations with Putin
While engaged in coaching and scientific work, Arkady Rotenberg did not lose touch with Vladimir Putin. In the early 90s, the current President of Russia headed the Committee for External Relations at the City Hall of St. Petersburg. Despite his constant employment, he did not deny himself the pleasure of practicing judo further. Vladimir Vladimirovich’s constant sparring partner in training was his childhood friend Arkady Rotenberg. Long-standing friendly relations led to the fact that when in 1998 Putin initiated the creation of the Yavara-Neva judo club in St. Petersburg, he invited Arkady Romanovich to the post of general director.
Starting a business
Rotenberg began his commercial career in 1991, founding the cooperative society "Sova", which organizes and conducts competitions in judo, sambo and other types of martial arts. The sports business brought Arkady Romanovich a good income. However, struggle was not the only thing that interested the aspiring entrepreneur during this period. Thinking about expanding his business, he began to engage in barter deliveries of goods from Finland to Russia. His assistant in this matter was his brother, who was invited to work in Helsinki in the early 90s. Arkady and Boris Rotenberg earned their first capital by supplying products to branches of the oil company Gazprom, specializing in the construction of gas pipelines. Barter transactions were carried out through the Baltic Business Partners company created at the end of 1991, co-founded by Arkady Romanovich.
By the end of the 90s, Rotenberg became a well-known businessman in the Northern capital, with the necessary connections and able to resolve any issue with one phone call. With his direct participation, several companies were founded during this period (Grant, RKK, Shield). In 1997, the entrepreneur became the founder of the International Information and Analytical Center. At the turn of the century, Arkady Romanovich became a member of the board of directors of the large St. Petersburg company Talion, engaged in the restaurant, hotel, construction and gambling business.
Banking activities
In 2001, Rotenberg and his longtime friend, and also another childhood friend of Putin, Konstantin Goloshchapov, bought out the Northern Sea Route bank (abbreviated as SMP Bank) and headed its board of directors. After some time, Goloshchapov thought about leaving the business and sold his stake to the younger brother of his partner. After this transaction, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg became the main owners of SMP Bank. Their share of shares was 80%. Today, the Northern Sea Route continues to be under the control of the Rotenberg brothers. With more than 100 representative offices in 40 cities of Russia, it owns assets in the amount of 348 billion rubles and is one of the largest banks in the country. In 2008, the Bashkir InvestCapitalBank was acquired by the Rotenberg Bank and became one of its branches. By the end of the 2000s, the Northern Sea Route was so firmly on its feet that it began to engage in insurance activities. For these purposes, the SMP-Insurance company was founded against its background.
Sale of pipes and construction of gas pipelines
In 2002, Arkady Romanovich’s brother Boris decided to get into the pipe business, purchasing a 25% stake from the largest monopolist in this area, the Gaztaged company. The remaining 75% share belonged to Gazprom's subsidiary, Gazkomplektimpex. Soon Boris was joined by his older brother. After the liquidation of Gaztaged, the Rotenbergs jointly created the companies Trubny Metalloprokat and Trubnaya Promyshlennosti, which sell pipes to Gazprom. A properly built business strategy allowed them to quickly become competitive in the market and win profitable tenders.
Working closely with Gazprom, Rotenberg thought about starting his own business for the construction of gas pipelines. At the end of 2007, he created the Stroygazmontazh company, which a few months later acquired 5 construction subsidiaries from Gazprom. The purchase cost the businessman almost 8.4 billion rubles and allowed him to create a large competitive company generating huge profits. In March 2008, Arkady Rotenberg's Stroygazmontazh wins the tender for the construction of the onshore part of the Nord Stream gas pipeline. Soon, the businessman, out of competition, receives orders for the construction of gas pipelines from Dzhubga to Sochi and from Sakhalin to Vladivostok, and also wins a number of lucrative tenders. His Stroygazmontazh becomes a thriving holding company and a monopolist in the gas construction market.
Condition and secret of success
Today Arkady Rotenberg continues to actively develop his business and has established himself as a serious and reliable partner. The companies he owned completed government orders worth more than 1 trillion rubles. Thanks to successful commercial activities, by 2012 Arkady Romanovich managed to amass a fortune of 1 billion rubles and take 1153rd place in the world ranking of the rich compiled by Forbes magazine. In subsequent years, Rotenberg increased his capital to $3.9 billion.
What is the secret of the success of the St. Petersburg oligarch? According to skeptics, influential friends of Arkady Rotenberg provide him with patronage in doing business. When talking about the entrepreneur’s friendships, they first of all mean Vladimir Putin, whom he has known since adolescence. It is noteworthy that the period of formation of the Rotenberg empire begins immediately after the current President came to power. It was at this time that Arkady Romanovich acquired a bank, became a monopolist in gas construction, and his companies received lucrative government orders for astronomical amounts. However, Rotenberg himself denies in every possible way the fact of Vladimir Vladimirovich’s involvement in the formation of his business. He states that his successful entrepreneurial activity is the result of his many years of hard work, and his close acquaintance with Putin has nothing to do with it. Whether this is true or not is unknown, but it is obvious that Arkady Rotenberg is often mentioned in the media as Vladimir Vladimirovich’s best friend.
Billionaire's wives
Arkady Romanovich was married twice. He married for the first time in his early youth. His chosen one was a girl named Galina. She gave birth to her husband's daughter Lilia, sons Igor and Pavel. The businessman prefers not to disclose information about his first marriage. In 2005, Arkady Rotenberg married for the second time. His wife Natalya gave him a daughter, Varvara, and a son, Arkady. In 2013, the couple decided to divorce. After the divorce, Natalya Rotenberg and her children moved permanently to England. It is interesting that for the second time Arkady Romanovich divorced almost simultaneously with his friend Putin. Information that Vladimir Vladimirovich and his wife Lyudmila no longer live together was leaked to the media shortly after Natalya ceased to be the legal wife of Arkady Rotenberg.
Life and activities of children
Today, Arkady Rotenberg is free from marriage obligations. The oligarch's children live separately from him. The eldest son Igor, born in 1973, followed in his father’s footsteps and went into business. He is a co-owner of a number of profitable companies, including Gazprom-Bureniye, Glosav, TEK Mosenergo, etc. Thanks to commercial activities, the fortune of Rotenberg’s eldest son in 2015 amounted to $470 million. Igor Arkadyevich is married and has three children.
The youngest son from his first marriage, Igor, is now 16 years old. Despite his young age, he is considered a fairly promising Russian hockey player. Since 2014, he has played as a forward in the St. Petersburg hockey club Dynamo-99, and is also a member of the Russian junior team. Igor’s mentor is the famous coach Evgeny Filinov.
Information about what Arkady Romanovich’s daughter from his first marriage, Lilia, is doing was not published in the media. As for the oligarch’s children, born to him by Natalia Rotenberg, they are still small enough to attract the attention of journalists. The billionaire's younger offspring live with their mother, who is the legal representative of their interests.
Businessman and sanctions
Due to the conflict situation that arose as a result of the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula to Russia, in the summer of 2014, Arkady Romanovich Rotenberg, along with other politicians and businessmen close to Vladimir Putin, was included in the list of citizens subject to visa and economic sanctions of the United States and other countries European Union. After 2 months, the Italian authorities decided to confiscate all of the oligarch’s real estate located on their territory. As a result, Rotenberg lost four villas in different parts of the Apennine Peninsula, a hotel in Rome, apartments in Cagliari and two companies. According to experts, the total value of the seized real estate reached 30 million euros.
The sanctions not only hit the billionaire’s pocket hard, but also deprived him of the opportunity to pay alimony to children from his second marriage living in the UK, because all international money transfers from persons on the EU “black list” were frozen. In this regard, Arkady Rotenberg’s ex-wife Natalya brought a claim against him for property claims. As a result of a long legal battle, the oligarch’s ex-wife managed to ensure that financial contributions for the maintenance of their children were transferred to her Russian account.
Despite the tough policies of the United States and the European Union towards Russians close to Vladimir Putin, Arkady Rotenberg continues to be one of the most successful domestic businessmen. Losses from sanctions to him and other citizens of the Russian Federation, whose foreign property was seized, were reimbursed from the state budget. This became possible thanks to the bill adopted by the State Duma in October 2014, popularly known as the “Rotenberg Law”.
Activities of the oligarch in recent years
In the midst of sanctions, Arkady Romanovich continues to implement new projects and make bold plans for the future. In 2014, he acquired a controlling stake in the domestic television holding Red Square, which films most television programs for Channel One. In the same year, Arkady Rotenberg’s company Stroygazmontazh received a government order for the construction of a bridge across the Kerch Strait, which should connect Crimea with territorial Russia. The billionaire, who began his career with sports, does not forget about it today. Since 2015, he has been supporting the development of children's hockey in the country. Rotenberg also continues to hold the post of general director of the Yavara-Neva judo club and is the Vice-President of the Russian Judo Federation.