Ilya Segalovich, 1964–2013

Posted at 20:22
Tonight Ilya's family reported that he died. Then I received information that Ilya is connected to the life support apparatus, but there are no signs of brain activity. We are waiting for official information.

We were friends with Ilyusha from school; for four years we sat at the same desk. And then together did Yandex. He was gone tonight. Everything happened too quickly and unexpectedly.
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He last spoke to our Istanbul guys last Thursday. He went out and said: "Hello, my name is Illya." Everyone laughed, and he spoke about the Island search platform.

I do not know what can replace its encyclopedic in technology and pure vision of the product. But he left behind a whole new generation of programmers, a whole school. And his ethical standards set the level for all of us.

Arkady Volozh