10 unknown facts about Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin is well-trained in Russian martial art form Sambo and Judo. You should see his 82-minute classic ‘Let’s learn Judo with Vladimir Putin’ to believe it.

A gold-coated Apple Watch was manufactured by Caviar Perna Penna that depicts Moscow skyline and the double-headed eagle of Russia's coat of arms. It costs US $3,073.

Putin likes fishing, horse riding, tiger-hunting, swimming and scuba diving.

Putin, in 2013, entered a submersible and sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Finland, some 200 feet underwater, just to check out a 140-year-old shipwreck.

He likes reading and especially the spy novels. He once said it amazes him how one man can achieve everything.

Putin loves wildlife and once he flew a motorized deltaplane in Yamalo-Nenets district in an attempt to lead Siberian cranes on migration route.

Apart from Russian, Putin can speak German fluently.

Putin grew up in a shared apartment in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, the Russian city ravaged by World War I.

Putin took a ride in a minisub or bathyscaphe.

Putin joined the KGB right after university and spent the 1980s helping the Soviet secret police recruit people to spy on the West.