Biography
Boris Romanovich Rotenberg is well known in Russia and far beyond its borders of Multimillionaire, an entrepreneur, a co-founder of a number of profitable enterprises, including banks. And he is also an athlete, a well-deserved coach of Russia and the Vice-President of the Judo Federation. Brother Oligarch Arkady Rotenberg. It is considered that Boris Romanovich and his native brother Arkady have warm friendships with the head of state by Vladimir Putin for more than half a century.
Boris Rothenberg was born in the city at the Neva in early 1957. At the time of his appearance in the family, the brother Arkady brother for 6 years. Like any elder brother, he had a huge impact on the younger, who became able to imitate him.
And it really wanted to look like Arkady. For Boris and his peers, he was a cumier. After all, I did not go to the music school together with the girls, but attended the sambo section on the Street of the Decembrists, where the club "Turbo Builder" was located. Confident, with the pushed muscles, Brother Arkady and led younger Boris to the Section to the coach Anatoly Rakhlin. At that time, the sambists were not so much - no more than a dozen. Among them, friend and sparring partner Arkady - Vladimir Putin, a guy from Basque Lane.
In 1972, Rakhlin managed to overtake the room more and moved there along with the disciples. At that time, the team grew up, but the "backbone", which included the Rotenberg brothers and Putin, remained the same. In the same year, the coach began to study with the guys Japanese judo.
Boris Rotenberg, however, like other young athletes, literally "lived" on the section. It was a big family where problems were solved together. Together the guys celebrated birthdays and went to visit. And the coach had the same weight for Boris as a native father.
A few years later, Rothenberg Jr. demonstrated success in judo. Boris regularly performed for the national team of St. Petersburg, and then the countries and brought more and more significant awards. In 1974, Boris Rothenberg became the winner of the championship in the Soviet Union. In the same year, a 17-year-old judoist received the title of Master of Sports. After 6 years - another same rank, but already on sambo.
After graduating from School, Boris Rotenberg, following the example of Brother, entered the Institute of Physical Culture named after P. F. Lesgaft. In 1978 he received a diploma. The first record athlete in the workbook was made at the Militia School, where he got a self-defense instructor.
Business
1980s, and then "Distracy 90s", left many compatriots without work. Fewing from lack of money and unemployment, Boris Rotenberg, at that time he married Irina Hararange, who had Finnish citizenship, took advantage of the possibility of repatriation and immigrated with his family to Finland. In Helsinki, Boris Rothenberg adopted Finnish citizenship and continued to engage in his beloved business - settled in the Judoist club "Chicar" by an instructor.
After 7 years, Rothenberg returned to St. Petersburg. At that time, the brother had already made the first steps in the business. As in childhood, Boris again entered the example of Arkady. Together the Rotenberg brothers established the bank, calling it the "Northern Sea Path" (SMP). Soon the SMP entered the top 50 largest banks of the country.
But the brothers decided not to be limited to banking business. Their capital has grown thanks to the profitable purchase of the company's assets of Rosspirtprom.
Favorite sport Boris Rothenberg did not leave. Collecting the team of partners and like-minded people, he took up the revival of youth sports and created several clubs where the guys could engage in martial arts. Clubs appeared in new and new cities of Russia: first in their native city on the Neva, then in Cheboksary, Novosibirsk, Ryazan and Grozny.
Another hobby to which Boris was addicted in the early 90s is motorhorsport. In Russia, this acquaintance took place thanks to Demidom Momot, the former colleague in the judo section. In those years, Demid served as director of the Kirov Stadium, where the first Russian racing contests were held. Lada Revolution Competitions made an impression on a businessman. According to Boris Romanovich, sitting on the podium, he felt as if in the car's cabin.
Later, along with the son Roman Boris visited Ferrari testing on the Italian highway Fiorao. In 2011, Rothenberg went to the competition in Le Mans, where a businessman invited Russian racer Alexey Vasilyev, Boris coach at Nissan GT-R. By 2012, under the leadership of Vasilyeva, Rothenberg managed to give qualifications, which gave the opportunity to participate in professional arrivals. One of the achievements of the Rothenberg-Rackerel was a 24-hour race in Barcelona. And in 2014 he spoke at a 24-hour race in Dayton, demonstrating enviable endurance.
Repeatedly Boris Rothenberg was subjected to the highway during a hazard training, but the entrepreneur masterfully came out of driving. Two times the car Rothenberg burned. The first time the entrepreneur managed to get on a burning car to the end of the track so that the colleagues would have to put out the fire without harming the car. The second time Rothenberg managed to slow down with burning wheels, the tires of which then simply melt and stuck to the brakes.
In 2003, the entrepreneurial biography of Boris Rotenberg expanded. He founded 2 firms that specialized in the supply of pipes for Gazprom. Non-promoters spoke about the protection of a friend of Childhood Vladimir Putin, at that time the presidential post took. Without the highest protection, enter into transactions with Corporation No. 1 in the country seemed impossible.
One of the 2 established by Boris Rothenberg firms, "base-bargain," became the founder of the new enterprise called "Gaztaged". This company supplied the equipment for Gazprom.
In 2008, Boris Rothenberg, together with his brother, acquired a 10% stake in the maritime port in Novorossiysk. The market value of the port was estimated at $ 300 million.
At the same time, businessmen bought out 5 contractors from Gazprom from the Gazprom corporation that were engaged in construction and installation work. On their basis, Boris and Arkady Rothenberg founded a new corporation. Its tasks included the construction of trunk pipelines, as well as industrial facilities for Rosspitprom. But the main thing, the repurchased contractors were engaged in the construction of the Northern Stream main gas pipeline. Namely, its land plot. Boris and Arkady Rothenbergs are involved and the construction of the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok highway.
Boris Rotenberg's assets in 2009 increased by another profitable enterprise. Businessman became a partner of MosstroyMukhanization-5. She managed to win the contest and received the right to build housing for the Ministry of Defense near Podolsky. The construction order had the cost of 34 billion rubles.
For two years (until 2015), Boris Romanovich was the president of the Dynamo Football Club. Recently, the Rothenberg clan together with the Continental Hockey League created the company "Dr. Sport". She is headed by the eldest son Boris Rotenberg - Roman.
Personal life
With the first wife of Irina Hararange, Boris Rothenberg met when he rested in the village of Toksovo near St. Petersburg. Irina's father has a Jewish origin, in the family of mother there were Finnos-Ingermanlanders. This allowed the pair to leave in 1991 in Helsinki. At that time, their sons were already born: in 1981 - Roman, in 1986 - Boris.
A few years after moving to Finland, the marriage made a crack. Spouses divorced.
Boris Rothenberg's personal life has changed in the 2009th. A businessman met a 29-year-old native of St. Petersburg Karina, which one time lived in America. There, the girl graduated from the Atlanta University, where he was educated in the field of international business and marketing. In the summer of the same year, the couple marked in the Preobrazhensky Cathedral.
Boris Rotenberg in the second marriage was born three children: the twins of Daniel and Sofia, as well as the daughter of Leon.
Karina Rothenberg is fond of horses. The wife of the billionaire is the head of the Moscow Equestrian Federation. In addition, a woman organizes helping homeless dogs. Karina leads a personal microblogging in "Instagram", where the photo of four-legged pets is laid out.
The eldest son Boris Rothenberg - Roman - in 2005 he graduated from the school of business in London and returned to Russia, where he is engaged in entrepreneurship. The second son of Rotenberg from the first marriage Boris is a football player.
Boris Rothenberg now
Now Boris Romanovich focused on the development of Russian motor racing. SMP Racing program was developed to prepare high-end specialists. Enhanced preparing the wards have already given the first fruits. In the fall of 2017, the Young Russian Racer Robert Schwartzman fell into the Ferrari support program, and in January 2018, the other Rontainer Sergei Sirotkin entered the Formula 1 team, became the Williams combat pilot. During the existence of Russian motor racing - this is the third athlete who falls among the participants of the Royal Racing.
According to Rotenberg, the Russian system of training of professionals is characterized by the fact that athletes who endure failure and not falling into the "Formula 1" try themselves in another form of competitions, for example, in piloting body machines.
The SMP Racing program is designed for all steps of road trainers. The country has already scored sections in which 1.5 thousand novice athletes are trained. Thanks to the success of the leaders of the first rank, training in the SMP Racing system, the newcomer has an incentive to development. Each SMP Racing pilot becomes a potential participant in Formula 1.
Motorsport is considered one of the most expensive sports, so constant financial injections are so necessary. Thanks to the efforts of Boris Romanovich, cars were collected by LMP2, which came to La Mane Third, and improved BR1. Russian masters participate in the production of cars, the first testing of the second model passed in April 2018.
State assessment
In 2010, Boris Rotenberg, according to the "Forbes" edition, entered the hundred of the richest Russians. Its assets were estimated at $ 700 million. 5 years later, Forbes included a millionaire to the list of the most wealthy families of the country. The Rotenberg brothers occupied 2 steps (the first one for the family of Gutseriev). The assets of the brothers amounted to $ 2.95 billion. Of these, Boris Rothenberg belonged to $ 920 million.
In 2014, Rothenberg, like his elder brother, came to sanction lists. At that time, the state of the oligarchs was estimated at $ 5.55 billion. To avoid imminent losses, Rothenbergs passed part of the assets of sons.
In the ranking of billionaires in 2016, Boris Rotenberg took the 9th place. The main assets with which he owns is the "Northern European Pipe Project", Gazprom Drilling, SMP-Bank, Tek Mosenergo.
For 2017, Rothenbergs retained second place in the Forbes rating, thanks to a total of $ 4.2 billion. Sanctions from the European Union passed Boris, as he remains a citizen of Finland.