Yandex: Segalovich did not die, but is in a coma

The general director of the Russian company "Yandex" Arkady Volozh denied the death of the co -founder of the company Igor Segalovich, reports Reuters. "I want to clarify the previously made statement - Segalovich is in a coma, his brain does not give signs of life, it is connected to an artificial respiration apparatus," Volozh said during a conference call.

“Tonight, the Ilya family reported that he had died. In the morning there was information that Ilya was connected to the life support apparatus. We are waiting for official information and while refraining from comments,” said Yandex general director.

Earlier on Thursday, Volozh in a corporate blog reported that Segalovich died at night. “We were friends with Ilyusha from school, sitting at the same desk for four years. And then we did Yandex together. He was gone tonight. Everything happened too quickly and unexpectedly,” he wrote.

As Volozh noted, the last time Segalovich spoke "in front of our chibulsky guys last Thursday." “I don’t know how to replace its encyclopedicity in technology and a pure vision of the product. But he reserved a whole new generation of programmers, a whole school. And his ethical standards set the level of all of us,” he wrote.

Segalovich 48 years old. As reported, he successfully underwent cancer treatment.

In recent years, Segalovich served as the technical director of Yandex. He owned 2.5 percent of capital and 6.87 percent of the Yandex votes, was a member of the board of directors of the company. In addition, together with his wife Maria, he was engaged in charity work in the framework of the Mary Children charity foundation.