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Valery Kovalyov
Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist (1970–2021) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Valeryevich and the family name is Kovalyov.
Valery Kovalyov (Russian: Валерий Валерьевич Ковалёв, 24 April 1970 - 31 December 2021, Moscow, Russia) — Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Wikipedian.
Kovalyov was a Russian entrepreneur, founder and owner of one of the largest[1] Russian online stores - Holodilnik.ru. According to Forbes in 2014, the company, headed by Valery Kovalyov, was in sixth place among online stores in Russia with revenues of $310 million.
He also wrote "a huge number of high-quality articles" for the Russian Wikipedia (according the executive director of Wikimedia RU Stanislav Kozlovsky).[2]