Vladimir Yakovlev

Quick Facts

Full Name	Vladimir Yakovlev
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Mar 8, 1959(1959-03-08)
Age	65
Birthplace	Moscow
Country	Soviet Union
Birth City	Moscow
Horoscope	Aries

Vladimir Yakovlev Biography

Vladimir Yakovlev is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on March 8, 1959 in Moscow, Moscow, Soviet Union. Vladimir Egorovich Yakovlev (Russian: Владимир Егорович Яковлев , born March 8, 1959) is a founder and an editor-in-chief of the Kommersant Newspaper, the first Russian daily business-oriented newspaper. He is a former CEO and owner of Kommersant Publishing house. Yakovlev is considered to be one of the creators of the Post-Soviet format of Russian journalism.

In 1989 at the suggestion of the vice-president of Fakt, the USSR cooperators’ union, Artem Tarasov Yakovlev together with Gleb Pavlovsky started an independent news agency and newspaper Kommersant. The pilot issue of the weekly newspaper was in December 1989.

In 1999 the majority of shares of Kommersant publishing house were purchased by Boris Berezovsky and Badri Patarkatsishvili through the American Capital Group. Kommersant Newspaper, Dengi, Vlast, Ogoniok, Autopilot, Sekret Firmy, Weekend, Citizen K. Magazines, Kommersant FM Radio station and Kommersant TV Channel were among the assets of the publishing group.

Since 2007 Yakovlev was a member of the board of directors of Sistemy massmedia, an affiliate of Sistema Analytical finance company, and in the same year he founded Content bureau.

From 1989 up to 1999 Yakovlev was the owner and editor-in-chief of Kommersant Newspaper, which was the basis of the homonymous publishing house. Since 1992 Yakovlev, being the majority shareholder, took up a post as CEO of Kommersant Joint-Stock Company (up to 1992 Vladimir was the editor-in-chief of the newspaper).

Vladimir Yakovlev Net Worth

Vladimir Yakovlev is one of the richest Journalist from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vladimir Yakovlev 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Since June 15, 1988 Yakovlev was a founder and a president of Fakt informational cooperative society (it was created in cooperation with Gleb Pavlovsky). Originally, the organization was created in the format of an information and reference service in order to “provide its potential readers – members of the booming cooperative movement – with facts: contact details, references, texts of regulatory acts and documents”.

Yakovlev was placed on a job in the Newspaper Soviet Russia. He then went on to work in the Magazine Rabotnitsa, the Sobesednik Weekly. Up to 1988 Yakovlev was a correspondent of Ogoniok Magazine.

Yakovlev received a letter of acknowledgement from the President of the Russian Federation on June 25, 1996 for active involvement of organization and conducting of the election company of the President of the Russian Federation in 1996.

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At the end of 2011, Yakovlev stepped down as an editor-in-chief of the Snob project and president of the Zhivi! Media group. Nikolai Uskov (Russian GQ) became the head of the company.

Facts & Trivia

Vladimir Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Soviet Union. Vladimir Yakovlev celebrates birthday on March 8 of every year.

«This new generation – mostly the children of the men of the 60’s such as Vladimir Yakovlev, Artyom Borovik, Dmitry Lihanov, Eugene Dodolev, Alexaner Lyubimov – are already taking their course. Being those of the gilded youth, having been brought up in huge apartments or having spent their childhood abroad, having graduated from the international division of the School of Journalism of Moscow State University, they now make a difference on the television and mass-media. The perfect takeoff and innate lack of fear allows them to remove taboos and visit all the hot spots where no Soviet journalist had been before»