Pavel Durov
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About
Russian entrepreneur who's famously known for being the founder of the social networking VKontakte and the instant messaging service Telegram Messenger.
Before Fame
He graduated from the Philology Department of the Saint Petersburg State University in 2006.
Trivia
He was named the most promising Northern European leader under 30 in 2014.
Family Life
His father Valery Semenovich Durov is a Doctor of Philological Sciences. His older brother Nikolai Durov co-founded VK and Telegram Messenger.
Associated With
He has been nicknamed the Mark Zuckerberg of Russia. In July 2015, he posted an Instagram photo of a newspaper headline about Edward Snowden.
