Arkady Volozh

About Arkady Volozh

Arkady Volozh is the principal founder and largest individual shareholder of publicly traded search engine Yandex, Russia's Google.

He cofounded the business with Ilya Segalovich who died of cancer in 2013.

Volozh started working on search in 1989, which led to him establishing Arkadia Company in 1990, a company that developed search software.

His early achievements include the development of electronic search for use in patents, Russian classical literature and the Bible.

Volozh resigned as CEO and executive director of Yandex after the EU sanctioned him personally in June 2022.

In February 2024 Yandex announced its Russian assets would be purchased by managers and investors for 275 billion rubles (about $3 billion); Volozh will retain ownership of foreign startups in drones and cloud services, among others.