1. Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich was a co-founder of Russian company Yandex.
10 Facts About Ilya Segalovich
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Ilya Segalovich was CTO and director of Yandex since 2000 until his death in 2013.
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Ilya Segalovich was born in Gorky into a Russian-Jewish family.
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Ilya Segalovich graduated from Republican School of Physics and Mathematics in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and then from Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute.
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Ilya Segalovich began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arkadia Company, where he headed their software team.
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From 1993 to 2000, Ilya Segalovich led the retrieval systems department for CompTek International.
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Ilya Segalovich was a co-founder and supporter of Maria's Children Art Rehabilitation Center for orphans and children with special needs.
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Ilya Segalovich received a degree in geophysics from the S Ordzhonikidze Russian State Geologic Prospecting University.
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On 25 July 2013, Yandex issued a press release stating that Ilya Segalovich had died after a long illness.
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Ilya Segalovich's death was confirmed by Yandex on 28 July 2013.