Ilya Segalovich

Ilya Segalovich
Segalovich in 2010
Born
Russian: Илья Валентинович Сегалович

(1964-09-13)13 September 1964
Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died27 July 2013(2013-07-27) (aged 48)
London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation(s)Programmer, CTO
Known forCo-founder of Yandex

Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich (13 September 1964 – 27 July 2013) 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 iNDEX”.

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