Portrait of Boris Nuraliev

Rank #3019

Boris Nuraliev

Net worth $1.2B

Software · Russia

Born
Jul 18, 1958
Age
67
Source
Software
Residence
Moscow
Citizenship
Russia
Marital status
Married
Children
3
Education
Master of Science, Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, and Informatics

Net worth over time

Biography

  • In 1980s he worked as senior researcher at the Soviet State Statistics Committee. Nuraliev and his partners wrote software for teleprinter, then they established coop to sell this software.
  • In 1991 Nuraliev founded company 1C to sell business software like Lotus 1-2-3.
  • In 1993 his brother and junior partner Sergei wrote the accounting application for DOS operating system. A year later 1C developed the accounting software for Windows.
  • Now 1C Group is the conglomerate of software companies, which develop various business and education software and games.
  • 1C has 8,000 franchise partners, which provide IT and consulting services to customers.
  • Analytics calls 1C as 'Russian SAP' or 'Russian Oracle'.
  • 1C developed the very popular game IL-2 Sturmovik.