Bakalchuk Vladislav Sergeyevich

Bakalchuk Vladislav Sergeyevich

Career

Born February 24, 1977 in Lyubertsy (Moscow region).

In 1994-1997 he studied at the Moscow Energy Institute with a degree in radiophysics.

Vladislav Bakalchuk went into business in the late 1990s. At first I traded computers.

2002: Creating an ISP UTech

In 2002, at the age of 25, he created the Internet provider UTech (Universal Technologies LLC) - on a parity basis with Alexei Fadeev, his friend. The company worked in the Southern, Southeastern and Eastern districts of Moscow.

After studying at the radio engineering faculty of MPEI, Bakalchuk managed to work as a master in laying networks. At UTech, he was responsible for the technical part, said the interlocutor of The Bell, who later held negotiations with Fadeev related to UTech^[1] of^[2]. Fadeev agreed with officials to install equipment in residential buildings.

Five years after the start, UTech served about 15 thousand households. Revenue for 2006 amounted to almost 30 million rubles, profit - 1.2 million rubles. Under UTech, the UT Design web studio worked (Universal Technologies LLC was the owner of the copyright for the content of the studio's website). She also made online stores. For example, UT Design made sites for the workshop "Your Hat" of Vladislav's relative Elena Bakalchuk and the UShop computer equipment store of Bakalchuk's friend Vyacheslav Latysh. In the design of the first site Wildberries UT Design used an energetic purple color. It will become branded for the company.

2004: Launch with wife of Wildberries

Since 2004, together with his wife Tatyana Bakalchuk, he has been engaged in online retail, and is the co-founder of the Wildberries store.

2006: Launch of a second iFlat ISP

After the sale of UTech in 2007, Bakalchuk and Fadeev remained partners. In 2006, a year before the deal with NetByNet, they registered another joint LLC - Iflat. It launched in one of the districts of UTech, Kuzminki, a new Internet provider iFlat.

Bakalchuk worked as the general director of Iflat until 2011, and he transferred his 49% stake to Fadeev's wife in 2018, the company's revenue that year was 125 million rubles.

2007: $7.5 million UTech sale

Bakalchuk planned to continue to develop the UTech business, the entrepreneur told The Bell, and at that time one of Tatyana Bakalchuk's students in English. In 2005, he was offered to invest in a provider. But at the end of 2006, Fadeev found a generous buyer, says another interlocutor.

The deal with NetByNet, the fifth largest Moscow provider, whose largest shareholder at that time was Gazprombank, was closed in the fall of 2007. The then head of NetByNet Vadim Kurin (now managing partner of the Zoom Capital fund) told The Bell that UTech was valued at less than $10 million. Kommersant in an article about this deal wrote about $7.5 million.

Bakalchuk, according to Kurin, received his part in money (at the time of the transaction in 2007 he had 50%), Fadeev - in money and shares of NetByNet. According to several interlocutors of The Bell, familiar with the terms of the deal, Bakalchuk raised from $3 to $5 million.

Wildberries Development Director Vyacheslav Ivashchenko argued in 2020 that neither UTech's profit nor the money raised from the sale of a stake in the business was invested in Wildberries. The Internet provider, according to Ivashchenko, did not bring profit. SPARK data suggests otherwise. The net profit of Universal Technologies was 718 thousand rubles in 2005, 1.2 million in 2006, 5.4 million in 2007.

According to the Картотека.ру service for April 2018, Vladislav Bakalchuk is the general director and owner of Atoll, a company cooperating with Wildberry (engaged in online retail, storage, courier and transport delivery). According to Kartoteki, he also owns 49% of Iflat LLC, an Internet provider iFlat that provides services in Moscow and the Moscow region.

2021: Wildberries founders Tatyana Bakalchuk and Vladislav Bakalchuk are the richest family in Russia

Co-owners of Wildberries Tatyana Bakalchuk and Vladislav Bakalchuk became the richest family in Russia. This was reported by Forbes magazine with reference to its updated rating, which was published at the end of August 2021. Read more here.

2024

The beginning of the divorce proceedings with Tatyana Bakalchuk

On July 23, 2024, Wildberries founder Tatyana Bakalchuk announced her divorce. In addition, she denied information about the raider seizure of the marketplace, saying that the deal with outdoor advertising operator Russ is necessary for further business development. Read more here

Statement on the Wildberries raider takeover. Video

On July 23, 2024, Wildberries co-founder Vladislav Bakalchuk announced the raider seizure of the company. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, promised to intervene in the situation.

Receiving a lawsuit from the wife of Tatiana Bakalchuk

On July 30, 2024, the founder of Wildberries Tatyana Bakalchuk announced that she had filed an application with the court to terminate her marriage with Vladislav Bakalchuk. The lawsuit concerns family legal relations. Read more here.

Illegal entry with security to the company office

On September 18, 2024, it became known that an attempt was made to illegally enter Vladislav Bakalchuk's office with security. The incident occurred in Moscow near the Wildberries office in the Romanov Dvor business center, where shooting was heard. Read more here

33 participants in the shooting were arrested at the Wildberries office in Moscow. Vladislav Bakalchuk released home

On September 20, 2024, it became known that a total of 33 people were arrested in the case of the shooting at the Wildberries office in Moscow. At the same time, the co-founder of the marketplace Vladislav Bakalchuk is at home as of the specified date. Read more here

Claim in the amount of more than 350 billion rubles

The co-founder of Wildberries Vladislav Bakalchuk took measures to challenge the transactions on the transfer of subsidiaries and the domain name of the website of Vaildberriz LLC to RVB LLC. The lawsuit was filed with the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region against RVB LLC, Vaildberriz LLC and Tatyana Bakalchuk. This was announced on October 4, 2024 by the press service of Vladislav Bakalchuk.

My lawyers and I filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, in which we described a sufficient number of grounds for invalidating transactions. In the process of drawing up a claim and studying the documents, it became finally clear that the completed transactions for the transfer to RVB LLC of the assets of Wildberry LLC constitute an invalid transaction. Is this appropriate? Is the company profitable? Of course not! I consider all these transactions illegal, made with a large number of violations of laws, "said Vladislav Bakalchuk, co-founder of the Wildberries marketplace.

These are all assets of Wildberries subsidiaries - warehouses, mezzanines, equipment, trucks, logistics facilities, Wildberries bank and its assets, intangible values, trademarks, software, website. The announced amount is only a preliminary market valuation, I do not exclude that during the proceedings it may grow, - said Vladislav Bakalchuk.

RVB LLC still hides all documents on the structural changes that have occurred. At the same time, it publicly declares the "reorganization" carried out by them, despite the fact that all assets are alienated without the approval of the co-founder of the marketplace Vladislav Bakalchuk. Thus, reorganization cannot be carried out without the 100% consent of all participants.

As the co-founder of Wildberries noted, he intends to defend his rights as a member of Wildberry LLC in court, since all of Wildberry's key assets are alienated without his approval.

Earlier, Vladislav Bakalchuk filed a lawsuit in the Savelovsky court of Moscow against Tatyana Bakalchuk and RVB LLC demanding that the transaction on the transfer of the WILDBERRIES.RU domain be declared null and void.

WB Development filed a lawsuit for ₽37 billion

On October 14, 2024, it became known that WB Development LLC, owned by Vladislav Bakalchuk, filed a lawsuit against its owner in the amount of ₽37,09 billion. The statement of claim was sent to the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region on October 11, 2024. Read more here

"Took him somewhere and forced him to rewrite the business." Tatiana Kim says she endured marriage violence for years

On October 17, 2024, the founder of Wildberries Tatyana Kim (formerly Bakalchuk) said that during the conflict with her husband Vladislav Bakalchuk, they tried to forcibly take her out and force her to rewrite the business. She also said that she had endured violence in marriage for years. Read more here.

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