The creator of "Rambler" died

Dmitry Kryukov, one of the creators of the Rambler search engine, died in Moscow, Marina Anisimova, spokeswoman for the Rambler Internet holding, told RIA Novosti.

Dmitry was born on October 8, 1960. He graduated from the Moscow Academy of Instrument Engineering. In 1990, he received a number of programming and system administration certificates in Berlin. In 1991, he became one of the founders of the telecommunication company "Stack".

Kryukov was engaged in the development of Rambler for several years, and from 2000 to 2001 he was vice president and member of the holding board of directors. In 2002, he released the prototype of the new Turtle search engine. The project stopped for a while, but in 2007 Kryukov resumed the development.