Vladimir Yakovlev

Vladimir Yakovlev is a Russian journalist and entrepreneur who founded the Kommersant newspaper and publishing house.

born 1959Founding KommersantCreating Snob MagazineThe age of happiness project

Born: 8 March 1959, Moscow
Occupation: journalist, entrepreneur
Education: MSU Faculty of Journalism
Founded: 2012), Kommersant publishing house (1990)

Vladimir Yakovlev was born in 1959 in Moscow

Vladimir Yegorovich Yakovlev was born in Moscow on March 8, 1959. His father was the Soviet journalist Yegor Yakovlev. He studied in the International Division of the School of Journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University.

He worked for the newspaper Soviet Russia and the magazines Rabotnitsa and Sobesednik. Until 1988 he was a correspondent for Ogoniok. In 1988 he founded the Fakt information cooperative with Gleb Pavlovsky.

In 1989 he and Pavlovsky started Kommersant, an independent news agency and newspaper. He owned and edited the paper until 1999 and became CEO of the Kommersant company in 1992. In 1999 Boris Berezovsky and Badri Patarkatsishvili bought most of the publishing house's shares.

In 2007 he became CEO of Stream Continent and founded Content bureau. In 2008 he created the Zhivi! Media group with Mikhail Prokhorov, whose projects included Snob Magazine. He left the group at the end of 2011 and in 2012 started The age of happiness, a project about active ageing.