Ilya Segalovich

Programmer, Organization founder

1964 – 2013

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Who was Ilya Segalovich?

Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich was a co-founder of Russian search engine 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”.

He began his career working on information retrieval technologies in 1990 at Arkadia Company, where he headed their software team. From 1993 to 2000, Ilya Segalovich led the retrieval systems department for CompTek International. He left CompTek to co-found Yandex in 2000. All three of these companies were founded or co-founded by his schoolmate, Arkady Volozh.

Segalovich was a co-founder and supporter of Maria's Children Art Rehabilitation Center for orphans and children with special needs. He received a degree in geophysics from the S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Geologic Exploration Institute.

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Born
Sep 13, 1964
Nizhny Novgorod
Also known as
  • Ilya Valentinovich Segalovich
  • Ілля Сегалович
Profession
Employment
  • Chief Technology Officer, Yandex
Died
Jul 27, 2013
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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