Tatyana Kim, formerly known as Tatyana Bakalchuk, is the founder and biggest shareholder of Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer. The Moscow-based company sells household products and had gross stock turnover of about $35.2 billion in 2024. It operates in 10 countries including Russia, Armenia and Kazakhstan.
The majority of Kim's fortune is derived from her 65% stake in Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, according to Spark-Interfax financial database. She was previously credited in this analysis with a 99% stake and the reduction led to a decrease in the net wealth calculation in February 2025 of about $3 billion.
The Russia-based company's gross merchandise volume was more than 4 trillion rubles ($35.2 billion) in 2024, according to March 27, 2025 press report in Interfax citing Bakalchuk. Wildberries had revenue of 441.1 billion rubles ($3.9 billion) in 2025, according to Spark-Interfax financial database. It operates in 10 countries including Russia, Armenia and Kazakhstan, according to its website.
The company is valued using the average enterprise value-to-sales, price-to-earnings and price-to-sales multiples of four publicly traded peers: Alibaba Group Holding, JD.com, eBay and Amazon.com.
Tatyana Kim was born in 1975. She founded online retailer Wildberries in 2004 in her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave from her job as an English teacher.
She paid around $700 to create company's first website. "At first, I did everything myself, collecting the goods and taking them to customers on the other side of Moscow by subway or bus," said then Bakalchuk in an interview with Bloomberg News in August 2018.
Over the following years she grew Wildberries into Russia's biggest online retailer with more than 8 million customers and more than 60,000 brands in stock.
In 2024, Tatyana began divorce proceedings with her husband, Vladislav Bakalchuk, amid a public dispute over the future of the company. She changed back to her maiden name, Tatyana Kim.
The billionaire lives in Moscow with her seven children.