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Pavel Durov is a successful businessman and programmer who is known for founding social networking site VK and Telegram Messenger. He was born on October 10, 1984, in Leningrad, but spent most of his childhood in Turin, Italy, where his father was employed. After returning to St. Petersburg, he entered the experimental classes of the Academic Gymnasium with in-depth study of foreign languages. In 2006, he graduated from the Philology Department of the Saint Petersburg State University with a first-class degree. Pavel Durov's father Valery Semenovich Durov is a Doctor of Philological Sciences and the author of many academic papers. Pavel Durov is also known as the "Russian Mark Zuckerberg" as he developed the social media platform VKontakte (VK), which is quite similar to Facebook. In 2014, Pavel left Russia and received a passport from the island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, but does not live anywhere permanently, moving around the world.

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Pavel Durov is a successful businessman and programmer who is known for founding social networking site VK and Telegram Messenger. He was born on October 10, 1984, in Leningrad, but spent most of his childhood in Turin, Italy, where his father was employed. After returning to St. Petersburg, he entered the experimental classes of the Academic Gymnasium with in-depth study of foreign languages. In 2006, he graduated from the Philology Department of the Saint Petersburg State University with a first-class degree. Pavel Durov's father Valery Semenovich Durov is a Doctor of Philological Sciences and the author of many academic papers. Pavel Durov is also known as the "Russian Mark Zuckerberg" as he developed the social media platform VKontakte (VK), which is quite similar to Facebook. In 2014, Pavel left Russia and received a passport from the island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, but does not live anywhere permanently, moving around the world.

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