Natalia Valerievna Fileva (; 27 November 1963 – 31 March 2019) was a Russian businesswoman and chairman of the board of directors of

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. In 2018, ''

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'' listed her as the fourth richest woman in Russia, with a worth estimated at . She died in a plane crash in Germany in 2019.

Career and personal life

Born in

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, Fileva graduated from the

Novosibirsk State Technical University Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU), until 1992 the Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute (NETI), is one of the major research and educational centers of Russia as well as one of the top technical universities located in Novosibirsk, ...

with a degree in radio engineering and the Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management with a degree in production management. Fileva was married to Vladislav Filev, general director of S7 Airlines. They had three children.

Death

On 31 March 2019, she was a passenger on an Epic LT, when it crashed in a field on approach to

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, killing all the three people aboard, including her father. Fileva was en route to a medical appointment in Frankfurt from France when the crash occurred. Two other people died when a police vehicle travelling to the scene of the crash collided with another car near the airport. The three police officers in the police car suffered serious injuries.

References

External links

«Она построила лучший авиационный бизнес в стране»: жизнь и принципы Наталии Филевой. Forbes Russia.
1 April 2019. 1963 births 2019 deaths Chief executives in the airline industry Businesspeople from Novosibirsk Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Germany Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2019 Novosibirsk State Technical University alumni Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management alumni {{Russia-business-bio-stub