8 LITTLE-KNOWN facts about Telegram founder Pavel Durov - from a new documentary film about him AOP.Press/Corbis via Getty Images; Rodion Chepel / Kion Originals, 2021 The maker of the documentary film ‘Durov’ spoke to the Russian entrepreneur’s acquaintances and colleagues and found out new details about the founder of the VKontakte social networking site and the Telegram messaging service. Some of them have never appeared in open sources before.
The film Durov by Rodion Chepel had its premiere at the Moscow International Film Festival. It deals with the key milestones in the life of Pavel Durov, the IT billionaire who fled Russia.