Ilya Segalovich
Former chief technology officer of Yandex
Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich was a co-founder of Russian company Yandex. He was CTO and director of Yandex since 2000 until his death in 2013. Segalovich proposed the name “Yandex” for the search engine, derived from the idea of “Yet Another... Wikipedia
Born: September 13, 1964, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Died: July 27, 2013 (age 48 years), London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Maria Eliseeva (m. ?–2013)
Education: Russian State Geological Prospecting University (1981–1986) and Physics-Mathematics State School (1977–1981)
Organization founded: Yandex
Buried: August 1, 2013, Troyekurovskoye Kladbishche, Moscow, Russia
Nationality: Russian