Segalovich Ilya Valentinovich

Segalovich Ilya Valentinovich

Segalovich Ilya Valentinovich is the Russian programmer and the public figure, the co-founder and the technical director of the company of LLC Yandex.

Assets

Capital assets of Ilya Segalovich are concentrated:

• Internet, computer technologies (LLC Yandex). Owned a packet of 4.15% of stocks of LLC Yandex company.

Status

Takes the 159th place in the rating of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The richest businessmen of Russia — 2011". Ilya Segalovich's fortune is estimated in 600 million dollars^[1].

Biography

Was born on September 13, 1964 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

The grandmother from family of hereditary priests. Parents is geologists, spent the childhood in Kazakhstan. The father in the 60th years opened "40 years for KAZSSR" and Voskhod — the fields of chromites, largest in the CIS, what received different government awards for and entered different encyclopedias.

1977-1981 - Republican physical and mathematical school (RFMSh, Alma-Ata, USSR).

Studied at the city of Alma-Ata, at first at school No. 54. Since the seventh class, 4 years in a row Fiz shared the same desk with the friend Arkady Volozhem in Republican. - the Mat. To school of the city of Alma-Ata. Which school desk issued on the mountain a half of gold medals of the aforesaid school in 1981. Then managed successfully to shoot back at the All-Union Olympic Games on mathematics where took the second place (see archives of the Quantum magazine for 1981)

Ilya Segalovich: about years of study at the Almaty physical and mathematical school, the neighbor in a school desk - Volozhe's Arcadia - and their joint attempt to arrive on mekhmat MSU

Without having got to the university where we treated Arkady together, we dispersed. It went in the footsteps of the father, to the Paraffin stove (his father is the famous oil geologist, too naotkryvavshiya I booze everything, and the old companion of my father, from where, actually, and our acquaintance), and I in the footsteps of the, to MGRI to geophysical faculty. Times were heavy, outside there was Avhan and the new law on an appeal of students, since 1982. The choice was not.

1981-1986 - Moscow prospecting institute of S. Ordzhonikidze (MGRI, Moscow, USSR (Moscow state prospecting university)), geophysical faculty.

Having disaccustomed and having married for the first time, got to VIMS (institute of mineral raw materials) where safely wrote the geophysical systems on a Fortran and it was even a little published (Izvestia of AN, the Physics of Earth series, for example).

Career

1990 – the head of group of the software of Arcadia company. Was engaged in development of the program of full-text morphological search for the text.

1993 - writes morforazbor which contains 100 thousand Russian words in the 300th kilobyte of RAM and works with speed of 1000 words per second on several computers.

1993-2000 – the head of department of the search systems CompTek International.

1995-2000 – the head of group of development, the leading programmer of Komtek Ltd.

"Years since 1990 there was strongly a feeling that it is necessary to do something else. Fortunately, it was not necessary to look for long, Arkady by this moment already founded firm, specially under Borkovsky who already had by then behind shoulders a spell-cheker, the dictionary Gin, and I booze all.

Hopes the Arcadia were not equaled, Borkovsky went to America, but children who remained (one of them in Boston the programmer now, and other Cisco Russia) made the excellent program with a full text morfologichesikm search. For 1990 it, probably, there was a record. I began to earn additionally at them, doing distribution kits, testing, and, even, wrote an installer (rewrote texts of Volozha more precisely) and the demo video. Postepepenno became impudent and began to optimize everything, having passed into category of the main developers. On sale of this product in 1991 it was possible to live, feed 5-10 people and even in the spring of 1992 to go to Apresyan and Boguslavsky and to receive at them the qualitative dictionary.

Then money came to an end, and production of the morphology was absolutely difficult case. The first version on the new dictionary (any line of Borkovsky) worked with speed of 3 words per second. And only, having glanced in books, in the spring of 1993 I wrote a morforazbor which kept 100 thousand Russian words in 300 kilobytes of a base memory and worked with speed of 1000 words per second on those still computers.

At last there was an opportunity to make a fast indexer that is called "for the end user". And fall of the same year, approximately, the first Yandex program appeared. All that year I was, in fact, the only programmer in office which was engaged in sale of computers because programs somehow not really were on sale. (local search, in general, very few people then interested).

But instead of doing unclear to whom the necessary search systems, decided to go on the blazed way and to release the "closed" system with morfopoisky. So there was "Bible". More precisely Bible Computer Reference book. The program under Windows. We made it already together, Arkady took me the interface programmer in help. To year in 1994 we slowly sold it and completed, and 1995 it were seen by people from the Information registry and passed to us from the former suppliers of technology (Parkhomenko). So we received the big order for Griboyedov.

While it was done, took still programmers, CompTek moved to office with the Internet, and all understood that it is necessary to do urgently search for the Internet. It was the end of 1995 — the beginning of 1996.

In the spring of 1996 the morphology on the "closed" dictionary ceased suit all. For one simple reason: in the Bible — 40 percent of words not dictionary, and on the Internet and that are more (if to measure according to the dictionary).

Having listened to several caustic reproaches (here like, how many years you are engaged in it, and for people made nothing good), I terribly became angry about myself and created for quite short term the "open" dictionary, approximately what now works in Yandex".

2000 – the head of department of development, the director of technologies and development of LLC Yandex.

Ilya Segalovich thought up the word "Yandex" (consisting of characteristic Cyrillic letter "Ya" and a part of the word index; the fact that the Russian pronoun "I" correspond to English of "I" is beaten) and developed the program of automatic morphological analysis used by search.

Forecast of the co-owner of "Yandex" Ilya Segalovich

Ilya Segalovich: about trends and competitors, about investments, about partnership, a command and partnership in a command, about life after the IPO and it is a little about personal

2013: Death from cancer

On July 25, 2013 Ilya Segalovich at the age of 48 years died. Segalovich's death came from unexpected complications of cancer of the stomach which up to this point was well responding to treatment. The CEO of the company Arkady Volozh published entry in the corporate blog:

"We were on friendly terms with Ilyusha from school, four years shared the same desk. And then together did Yandex. Tonight he died. Everything happened too quickly and unexpectedly.

The last time he addressed our Istanbul children last Thursday. He left and told: "Hello, my name is Ilya". All laughed, and he told about the search Islands platform.

I do not know, than it is possible to replace its entsiklopedichnost in technologies and pure vision of a product. But it reserved the whole new generation of programmers, the whole school. And its ethical standards set level to all of us".

On the same day it became clear that Segalovich was connected to the device of artificial life support in one of the London clinics.

On July 27 in the afternoon Ilya Segalovich died. As the CEO of "Yandex" and the co-founder of the company Arkady Volozh explained in the official blog of the company, on July 25 at 1:30 a.m. Moscow time at Segalovich brain death was recorded.

"Death of a brain and lack of breath is a modern technical determination of death. Today's medical technologies give the chance to keep a body some more days on artificial respiration. But this irrevocable status", - explained to Volozh.

The diagnosis "terminal cancer of a stomach with metastases", according to Volozha, was delivered to Segalovich in September of last year.

"Last week the tumor in the head was detected. On Tuesday-Wednesday cancer was thrown on brain covers. Malignant meningitis led to irreversible effects - his brain "burned down" less, than per day", - wrote Volozh in the blog of the company.

Projects and developments

The initiator of creation of a collection of the Russian texts electronically adapted for researches and search "Russian National Corpus".

Cofounder of the "Russian Seminar according to Methods of Information Search" project^[2].

The author and the head of development of desktop search products (The international classification of inventions, the integrated qualifier, the bible computer reference book, the electronic scientific publications "Griboyedov", "Pushkin", "Standarty").

Author and developer of the search system Yandex-server and projects of LLC Yandex (Yandex news, Yandex market, Yandex encyclopedia, Yandeks-direkt), Spamooborona.

Participation in tenders:

• Magnificent twenty of Runet of 2011: 2nd place.
• Magnificent twenty of Runet of 2009: 13th place.
• Magnificent twenty of Runet of 2008: 15th place.
• Magnificent twenty of Runet of 2007: 20th place.
• Magnificent twenty of Runet of 2006: 12th place.

Publications

The author of a number of scientific and popular scientific publications on search technologies.

Some works were published in the scientific publication "Izvestia of AN", within the Physics of Earth series.

Charity

1997 - the co-founder and the vice chairman of the board of the Rehabilitation art center "Maria's Children" (the social help to orphan children and handicapped children).

Ilya Segalovich "As to Maria's children to find the road to Seliger and as it will be helped by millions of users of Yandex"

The initiator of a charity program "The national stock "Dry Bottom" (collecting of diapers for orphanages).

Organizes arrival to Russia for entertainment of sick children of the international team of clowns of Petch Adams and itself quite often acts as a part of this command.

Awards

2005 - a national public award in the field of volunteering.

Marital Status

He is married, eight children. Took in guardianship of four children of orphanages.

"From personal parts - approximately in 1993 I decided to study English (having strategic plans to leave where far away), and there on rates, met the future wife. With her we began to go to Nursing home No. 103 and to carry children regularly in its studio at children's theater "Podval". Gradually our involvement into their affairs, and them in ours increased, and approximately in a year after we with Masha had the child (it already had before three), we took at first one, and then two more little girls to ourselves in family. Thus, I also father of big fosterovsky family".

• The wife is Maria Yeliseyeva.
• The daughter is Olga Yeliseyeva.
• The daughter is Alina Yeliseyeva.
• The daughter is Anna Yeliseyeva.
• The daughter is Anastasia Segalovich.
• The daughter is Zhanna Novikova.
• The daughter is Inna Agaltsova.
• The daughter is Nadezhda Varaksina.
• The son is Alexander Korostelin.

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