Biography
Arkady Yuryevich Volozh - Russian entrepreneur, scientist, general director of CompTek companies, Arkady, owner and general director of the Yandex group of companies. Arkady was born on February 11, 1964 in the city of Guriev Kazakh SSR, in the family of the developer of oil deposits of the Caspian Sea, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, employees of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Abramovich Volga and Teacher of the Guryevsky Music Sophia Sophia Lvovna Volozh. Uncle Arkady - Wolf Lvivich Usminsky, famous violinist, currently - Professor of the Ural Conservatory, a member of the jury of international violin contests.
At the seven age, Arkady went to study in the Special school of Alma-Ata with a physico-mathematical bias, where he became friends with the classmate Ilya Segalovich, the future founder of the Yandex system. In 1981, friends graduated from school and went to Moscow to receive higher education.
In the capital of the USSR, the way of young men was divided into the time: Arkady passed through the competition to the Institute of Oil and Gas. Gubkin at the Faculty of Applied Mathematics, and Ilya - to the Moscow Geological Exploration Institute. In 1986, Arkady received a diploma and settled at the Institute for Management Problems (IPU) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he was studied in the treatment of large amounts of data. In parallel with the scientific activity of Arkady entered the graduate school.
Business
With the beginning of the restructuring of Arkady Volozh engaged in entrepreneurship. In 1988, from Ryakoma in Research, an order was received about the creation of a cooperative, and in 1989, Volozh became an employee of the company, which was engaged in the supply of seeds to Austria in exchange for PC. Arkady was responsible for technical issues of reorganization of computers, which turned into automated jobs at the factories. Instead of preparing the candidate dissertation, Volozh took up an in-depth study of the English language, which was necessary for business communication with Western partners.
Together with the American student, Robert Stubbbbin, who pulled up Arcadia in English, was organized by COMPTEK in 1989 and became the general director. Robert was engaged in commercial issues, and Arkady - technical support. Earning on deals, Arkady acquired two computers, which soon sold and bought an apartment for a family in Moscow. Soon there is a need to create programs that understand Russian. In cooperation with Arkady, Borkovsky Volozh created the company "Arkady". The first order for the creation of a classifier of inventions of 10 MB came from the Institute of Patent Information.
After successful testing, the creation of the first program was put on the stream. Alone, the company worked for three years, after which "Arkady" made one of the departments of the Promptek company "COMPTEK". The first development of the new programmers department was the creation of a digitized Bible. Fleetings with a literary product diverged quickly. Soon received a second order from the Institute of World Literature at the Complete Academic Collection of Christov and Pushkin's Works.
Yandex
In the second half of the 90s, after the Internet appeared on the Russian space, Volozh began to create a search system. A longtime friend Ilya Segalovich joined him to him, who at that time worked as a programmer in research institutes. Young people met with a linguist scientist and semantics Yuri Derenikovich Apresan, who supplied them with a linguistic dictionary. Ilya first in the team began writing the search part, based on the morphological developments of Apresan. Soon, Mikhail Maslov, Dmitry Teiblyum, Sergey Ilyinsky, Leonid Brovkin joined the project.
In 1997, for $ 10,000, I bought 3 servers with motherboards with a capacity of 1 GB, on which all the indexed contents of the Runet were placed. In the same year, at a technological exhibition dedicated to IP telephony, the programmers team presented the Yandex search engine. In 1999, the company fell into the seven of the most popular Russian-speaking sites.
The word "Yandex" appeared from the tradition of the UNIX users to call any product "Yet Another Index", where "index" was the necessary name. In the abbreviated sound, the phrase sounded like "Yandex", while wondered offered to replace the first two Latin letters with one letter Cyrillic. So the brand "Yandex" was born.
The full work of the search engine began only in 2000, when a new robot was created on the basis of Yandex, which allowed to optimize the search. Extended search parameters appeared: on uniqueness, text zones, taking into account the exact word form, by date, by relevance, on images. Soon "Yandex" received the status of a social search engine. On the shoulders of the Volga, the commercial promotion of the company was for which the sponsors were needed.
Despite the fact that Russian Internet consisted of only 2.2 million users, foreign investors were not afraid to invest in new technologies. Unlike colleagues, Volozh did not sell the whole company completely, holding a lot of stake in the hands of the founders.
Having received money after the first deal, Volozh expanded the state. Soon "Yandex" could offer users an updated product line - Yandex. Trecks, Yandex.News, Yandex.Trames, Yandex.Guru, Yandex.poshta, Yandex.bar toolbar. On television, an advertising campaign was released. Design "Yandex" was developed at the studio of Artemia Lebedev.
In 2001, an indexed volume exceeded 1 TB, Yandex. Martinki and Yandex.Money services appeared, Yandex.Market started a year later. 2003 was devoted to the optimization of postal service, the launch of contextual advertising. At the end of the year, first dividends were paid for first dividends for the first time in the history of the Russian Internet, Yandex shareholders.
For 10 years, a self-sufficiency of the company was achieved, the annual turnover of which was $ 300 million. In 2007, the Volodya was invited to teach to MFTI, where Arkady took the position of head of the data analysis department. The 2008 crisis made adjustments to the work of the Yandex group of companies, but the developers managed to launch Yandex.Wifi and Yandex.Aphishe services. By this time, the company's offices were already open in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Odessa, Novosibirsk, Kiev, Kazan. In 2008, an office opened in California, in 2011 - in Istanbul.
In 2010, Volozh took the first place in the "MediaBusiness" category according to the "Kommersant" edition. In an interview, Volozh explained that the reason for the high degree of success of the search engine is in a strong, charismatic team and indexing the entire Internet, and not just the Russian-speaking part. In 2009, President Dmitry Medvedev made the name of Arkady Volodya to the list of 100 reserve managers. In 2011, after a successful deal on the American Stock Exchange, Volozh ringed his famous mustache, which is visible in the photo. In 2014, he left the post of head "Yandex", the post of general director from that time is Alexander Shulgin.
Personal life
With the future wife of Arkady Volozh met in the 1980s. Nowhere in the biography of the programmer does not mention the name of the spouse. Arcadia has three children. In 1988, the first-mentioned Lion was born in the family of the programmer, who subsequently graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the NIU-HSE and joined the Yandex team. Now Lev Arkadyevich is developing a service delivery service in the city.
In 1991, the daughter of Anna-Ester was born, which in 2008 graduated from HSE in the specialty "Education Economics". In 1995, the younger son Timofey appeared to the world, who studied at the Faculty of Economics of the "Joint Bachelor of HSE and Ros". The family of the former general director of the Yandex company lives in Moscow.
State assessment
In 2013, Arkady Volozh was on the list of billionaires according to the "Forbes" edition. The state of the entrepreneur was $ 1.15 billion. In 2014, the Volodya rating was as high as possible, the head of Yandex took the 60th position with a capital of $ 1.7 billion.
In 2015 and 2016, the position of the businessman dropped to 114 and 118, respectively. At the moment, the state of the entrepreneur is estimated at $ 0.8 billion.
Arkady Volozh now
In July 2017, the value of the Yandex shares on the Moscow Stock Exchange was 2039.5 rubles, which was a record for the company. The increase in the mark was largely influenced by the merger of Yandex.Taxi with the Russian business "Uber". The service became an international company with coverage of the territory of the six countries of the post-Soviet space. The deal influenced the capital of the Volga, adding $ 200 million to a billionth state.