Dmitry Grishin Dmitry Grishin Dmitry Grishin (born October 15, 1978) is a Russian businessman, investor and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Mail.ru Group. Grishin also made significant contributions to Russia’s internet presence, Runet, in its early days. In 2012, Grishin invested $25 million to found the first-ever robotics investment company, Grishin Robotics, to focus exclusively on consumer robotics. Dmitry Grishin was born in 1978 in Kapustin Yar a Russian rocket launch and development site in Astrakhan Oblast. His father designed radar systems for the MiG-29 jet fighter. When he was 12, he saw a VCR
Astrakhan Oblast Astrakhan Oblast Astrakhan Oblast (, "Astrakhanskaya oblast") is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southern Russia. Its administrative center is the city of Astrakhan. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,010,073. Astrakhan is traversed by the northeasterly line of equal latitude and longitude. Its southern border is the Caspian Sea, eastern is Kazakhstan (Atyrau Region and West Kazakhstan Region), northern is Volgograd Oblast, and western is Kalmykia. It is within the Russian Southern Federal District. The oblast was created on December 27, 1943, on parts of the territories of the abolished Kalmyk ASSR and Astrakhan