Pavel Durov Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics

Publish date: 2024-05-01

Pavel Durov Quick Info
Height	5 feet 9 in
Weight	seventy four kg
Date of Birth	October 10, 1984
Zodiac Sign	Libra
Eye Color	Dark Brown

Pavel Durov is a Russian entrepreneur who is highest known as the founder of the Russian on-line social media and social networking carrier VK (VKontakte) (2006); and the cross-platform, cloud-based speedy messaging service Telegram (2013). In 2017, he had joined the World Economic Forum‘s (WEF) ‘Young Global Leaders’, an impartial non-profit organization controlled from Geneva beneath the supervision of the Swiss government.

Born Name

Pavel Valerievich Durov

Nick Name

Russian Mark Zuckerberg

Pavel Durov as noticed in an Instagram Post in October 2015 (Pavel Durov / Instagram)

Sun Sign

Libra

Born Place

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Residence

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Nationality

Education

Pavel had attended an elementary faculty in Italy as his father was once employed there at the moment. Upon his return to Russia in 2001, he had studied at the D. Okay. Fadeev Academic Gymnasium, a selective secondary boarding school in St. Petersburg.

A year later, he had joined the Saint Petersburg State University and had graduated from there in 2006, with a firstclass degree in philology.

Occupation

Entrepreneur

Pavel Durov as observed in an Instagram Post in August 2015 (Pavel Durov / Instagram)

Family

Father – Valery Semenovich Durov (Antiquarian, Philologist, Academic, Former ‘Head of the Department’ of Classical Philology at St. Petersburg State University)
Mother – Albina Durova
Siblings – Nikolai Valeryevich Durov (Older Brother) (Programmer, Mathematician, Entrepreneur)
Others – Semyon Petrovich Tulyakov (Grandfather) (World War II Veteran, Honored with the ‘Order of the Red Star’, the ‘Order of the Patriotic War’, and the ‘Order of the Great Patriotic War’)

Build

Athletic

Height

5 toes 9 in or a hundred seventy five cm

Weight

74 kg or 163 lbs

Pavel Durov as noticed in an Instagram Post in January 2016 (Pavel Durov / Instagram)

Girlfriend / Spouse

Pavel has dated –

Alena Shishkova – Rumor

Viktoria Odintcova – Rumor

Race / Ethnicity

White

He is of Russian descent.

Hair Color

Dark Brown

Eye Color

Dark Brown

Sexual Orientation

Straight

Distinctive Features

Toned body
Side-parted, wavy hair
Affable smile
Often sports a trimmed beard

Pavel Durov as observed in an Instagram Post in June 2017 (Pavel Durov / Instagram)

Pavel Durov Facts

Pavel and his brother Nikolai had taken the worth of their VKontakte trade to USD Three billion by way of the top of 2010. However, in 2011, he was once all for an altercation with the native police in Saint Petersburg after the Russian executive had demanded his group to take away from its platform the pages of the politicians of opposition events. The police had to leave after he refused to answer his door.

In December 2013, he was put underneath power to sell 12% of the company’s stocks to Ivan Tavrin, the landlord of Mail.ru, a significant Russian web corporate. Ivan therefore sold those stocks to Mail.ru which gave it 52% majority possession of VKontakte. In 2014, Mail.ru received the entire last shares and was the only real proprietor of VKontakte.

In April 2014, the Russian govt had additional pressurized him to hand over the knowledge of a number of Ukrainian protesters to Russia’s safety agencies. He refused to conform and posted the official order on his VKontakte page. By the top of the month, he had been brushed aside because the CEO of the corporate.

Enraged, he left Russia, acquired citizenship in Saint Kitts and Nevis via donating USD 250k to the rustic’s ‘Sugar Industry Diversification Foundation’, and later secured USD three hundred million in money from Swiss banks. With those finances, he arrange his next corporate, Telegram, which used to be first headquartered in Berlin and later moved to Dubai.

His life and occupation were depicted in the Russian-language ebook titled The Durov Code: The True Story of VK and its Creator (2012).

Featured Image via Pavel Durov / Instagram

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