Vladislav Bakalchuk claimed to have rebuilt the first Wildberries website

The scandalous co-founder of Wildberries Vladislav Bakalchuk announced the restoration of the company’s first website – Wildberries.space. This project was created 20 years ago, when the marketplace was just getting started. Bakalchuk shared this news in an email, noting that the site has been preserved in the form it was when it was launched.

Wildberries.space.

“My team and I rebuilt the very first Wildberries.space website, which was created 20 years ago. We left it as we created it for the first steps of my eighth «child»” Bakalchuk said. He said some sections of the menu have retained their original content, while other sections have been lost to time.

Some sections of the menu have been lost to time.

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Reminder that Vladislav Bakalchuk and Tatiana Kim (before their divorce, Bakalchuk) were at the center of a high-profile divorce scandal and conflict over Wildberries. Vladislav Bakalchuk filed a lawsuit against his wife for the sum of 350 billion rubles, claiming that he was illegally removed from the management of the business. According to him, the merger of Wildberries with the Russ advertising company was carried out without his consent, which he called a “raider seizure”. The merger of the companies resulted in a new legal entity controlled by Tatiana Kim, which only added to the tension between the couple.

An additional round of scandal occurred in September 2024, when there was a shooting at the Wildberries office in Moscow that left two people dead. Vladislav was accused of initiating the incident, which he himself denies, claiming he was the victim of provocation. He claims that he came to the negotiations to finance the construction, not to take over the company. Tatiana Kim, in turn, explained in an interview that the reason for their divorce was Vladislav’s “abusive behavior”, as well as conflicts over business. She emphasized that she could no longer continue the relationship, which involved constant emotional fights