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Rotenberg has invested $ 28 million to acquire a majority stake of Skanex, one of the main actors in the field of space technology of Russia.
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Arkady Rotenberg took his widespread activities spread throughout the Russia forward and upward and also with regard to deep outer space.
Rotenberg has become the majority shareholder in Skanex, which specialize in the provision of observation from outer space all over the territory of Russia as well as that of other CIS member countries. The CIS was formed after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Arkady Rotenberg will now be able to look down on them from above, in real time and with a very high resolution.
Business analysts in Russia seem to be of the opinion that the reason why shared Rotenberg has gained control of Skanex is that his group is interested in participating in the initiative to establish an accurate map cadastral and real estate have allocated about $ 1.7 billion to complete the project to define local and national boundaries in the country.
Cadastral map is a full log of real estate or real property boundaries in a country and the ability to produce a map from outer space, using satellite technology has become an increasingly common practice in the world.
Most countries that make use of satellite images to define the exact size and location of the plots, as they are listed in the legal documents and are largely used to settle legal disputes and lawsuits regarding the boundaries of the property.
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With an eye to the future and gaining a share of the potentially lucrative activity, Rotenberg has acquired 90 percent of shares, Skanex, for $ 28 million. The remaining 10 percent of the company being kept by the founders of the company, Vladimir and Olga Gershenson.
Skanex has the distinction of being one of the lost running hi-tech companies in Russia, founded in 1989, when the country was still part of the Soviet Union.
Providing a full range of high-tech services, not only including interception of images of the Earth from outer space but also their thematic processing, Skanex are also the owners and operators of a network of ground stations across Russia and a number of member countries of the CIS that assimilate data from a network of satellites, which allow the transmission of a large number of television channels for Russian consumers. Skunks are also working closely with the world's largest Internet search engine, Yandex, Russia to provide their high-resolution maps and images of the Earth's surface.
While these operations will no doubt welcome some strings of arc Arkady Rotenberg, there is no doubt that the main subject of interest will always be a portion, if not all, the $ 1.7 billion in the Russian Federation, to be completed by the end of 2016, the country, with a land mass of 6.5 million square kilometres, will move to a single open the geocentric coordinate system, designed to increase the precision of real estate cadastre of the State.
Arkady Rotenberg , born and raised in the city of Leningrad and a graduate of the Institute of physical culture in Leningrad continued to build a successful career in the world of trade and industry, becoming one of the most influential businessmen in Russia, with important holdings in some of the largest companies in the country, including SGM group, now one of the largest suppliers of steel pipes of the former Soviet bloc. Rotenberg also holds an interest in a major Russian Mostotrest based road Construction Corporation and a controlling stake in SMP Bank, the Group Avia TPS, besides being President of the hockey club Dynamo Moscow.
