Rank #444
Tatyana Kim
Net worth $8.1B
E-commerce · Russia
- Born
- Oct 16, 1975
- Age
- 50
- Source
- E-commerce
- Residence
- Moscow region
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 7
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Tatyana Kim, formerly Tatyana Bakalchuk, is a former English teacher and mother of seven, who started e-commerce retailer Wildberries in 2004.
- She founded the business at age 28 in her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave.
- Her husband, Vladislav Bakalchuk, an IT technician, soon joined her.
- In the early years, she resold clothes from German retailer Otto.
- Kim is the richest woman in Russia and one of only four woman billionaires from the nation.
- In January 2024 a huge fire burned down Wildberries' warehouse in St. Petersburg, which houses about 10% of goods.