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Doctors stated the death of Ilya Segalovich, who was in a coma
The co -founder of Yandex, Ilya Segalovich, died in London at 49 years of life, according to the company general of Arkady Volozh. On the eve of Segalovich was disconnected from the apparatus of life support.
“Yesterday, all hopes ended. Even a strong body, as it was with Ilyusha, could not stand it. The changes incompatible with life in the composition of the blood appeared. It was necessary to let him go with dignity. The doctors turned it off yesterday afternoon, his heart stopped,” Volozh writes.
"Last September Ilyusha, the diagnosis of the terminal cancer of the stomach with metastases was made. There were no chances. All went to the dead. But a miracle happened. A very good doctor was found, and the strong organism was susceptible to chemistry. Ilya literally came to life and the whole year was very active until the last week. All metastases were left last week. The tumor was discovered in the head. Tuesday -environment cancer spread to the membranes of the brain.
On Thursday, the general director of "Yandex" announced the death of Segalovich. “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.
After some time, Volozh denied the message. "Segalovich is in a coma, his brain does not show signs of life, it is connected to an artificial respiration apparatus," said Volozh during a conference call.
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.
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.