The founder of the Beeline operator and the Dynasty Foundation Dmitry Zimin died

The 88-year-old founder of the Beeline operator and the Dynasty Foundation Dmitry Zimin died, journalist Sergei Parkhomenko said in his telegram channel.

“I just received a message about a terrible grief. Dmitry Borisovich Zimin died. The greatest philanthropist in Russia. A man of extraordinary, unique nobility and kindness. Absolutely permanent, ”he wrote.

The son of Zimin Boris writes on Facebook that his father died in Switzerland, he had been seriously ill for recent months.

Zimin created the Dynasty Foundation in 2001 - almost immediately after departure from the post of general director of Vimpelcom (Cell operator Beeline). As she wrote , he sent almost all the money earned to the fund and formulated his mission as follows: “The search and support of talents, their ideas and projects in the field of natural and social sciences.”

Zimin believed that one of the main problems of Russia is the “leaching” of the intellectual elite from the country: “The matter is not only in financing is also a very important question, how much is that the atmosphere of creativity, the atmosphere of freedom should be created in the country. <...> So far we are observing degradation. Personally, I do everything that depends on me in order to cope with this trouble - I gave almost everything that I had, trying to support scientists. ”

The Fund handed grants and scholarships to young physicists, mathematicians, biologists. In addition, the Dynasty sent young researchers to international scientific programs, helped organize scientific conferences in Russia.

In 2015, Zimin announced the liquidation of the fund. This happened due to the fact that the Ministry of Justice included the "dynasty" in the list of "foreign agents".

The “Foreign Agents” register of the Russian media “Wednesday”, which was created by the son of Dmitry Zimin Boris, also fell into the register of “foreign agents”. After that, the organization decided to liquidate. In 2020, Boris Zimin paid for a plane who removed the politician Alexei Navalny from Russia after poisoning.