Natalia Fileva

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Valerievna and the family name is Fileva.

Natalia Valerievna Fileva (Russian: Наталия Валерьевна Филёва; 27 November 1963 – 31 March 2019) was a Russian businesswoman and chairman of the board of directors of S7 Airlines. In 2018, Forbes listed her as the fourth richest woman in Russia, with a worth estimated at US$600 million.^[1] She died in a plane crash in Germany in 2019.

Natalia Fileva
Born	(1963-11-27)November 27, 1963 Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died	March 31, 2019(2019-03-31) (aged 55) Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport, Germany
Nationality	Russian
Education	Novosibirsk State Technical University
Occupation	Businesswoman

Career and personal life

Born in Novosibirsk, Fileva graduated from the Novosibirsk State Technical University 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 Frankfurt Egelsbach Airport, killing all the three people aboard, including her father.^[2][3]

Fileva was en route to a medical appointment in Frankfurt from France when the crash occurred.^[4] 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.^[5]