Andrey Krichevsky

Andrey Krichevsky was born on 6 June 1981 in Minsk.[1]

In 2003 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics State University.

Since 2005, he headed a group of consulting companies in the field of corporate law and protection of intellectual property.

In April 2008, he was nominated as an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Moscow Region.

In 2008, he took an active part in the establishment of the Russian Public Non-commercial Organization "Society for the Collective Management of Related Rights Russian Organization for Intellectual Property (VOIS). He was elected to the Management Board and appointed Director General of VOIS.

In September 2009, he became a member of the Expert Council on Copyright and Related Rights under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

In November 2009, he took part in the establishment of the Russian Non-commercial Organization Russian Union of Right-holders (RUR) and was elected to the Board and appointed General Director.

Since February 2011, he is the First Deputy General Director of the RUR.

Since December 2015, he is the General Director of the RUR.

Since April 27, 2011 he is the General Director of Firma Melodiya FSUE. According to Krichevsky, FSUE was supposed to be prepared for privatization within a year, but due to bureaucratic delays, this scenario was implemented only in 2016.[2]

In 2011, he joined the Organizational Committee of the Vth International Forum "Intellectual Property – XXI Century", held under the patronage of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia and with the support of the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Since December 2011, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the newspaper "Culture".

Since 2015, he is the Deputy Chairman of the Public Council of the Internal Affairs Department for the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky Administrative Districts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow.

Since 2015, he has been a member of the Council on Intellectual Property under the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.

Since 2015, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the FSBEI of HE “Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property”.

Since 2016, he is a member of the Council of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation on Intellectual Property.

In May 2017, he initiated the establishment of the Confederation of Rightholders' Societies of Europe and Asia (CRSEA), which included leading organizations for the collective management of copyright and related rights from Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Moldova, China, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan.[3]

In September 2017, together with the Skolkovo Foundation, he initiated the establishment of the Association “National Coordination Center for Processing Transactions and Rights and Objects of Intellectual Property” (IPCHAIN).[4]

In October 2019, he joined the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and headed the RSPP Committee on Intellectual Property and Creative Industries.[5]

Under the leadership of Krichevsky, for the first time the digitization of the “Firma Melodiya” music library was launched, digital sales of content were launched. After a long break, the release of vinyl records was resumed. Under his leadership, the company released a set of 50 discs of concert recordings by pianist Svyatoslav Richter for the 100th anniversary of his birth.[6]

In 2018, the IPCHAIN Association became the winner of the Runet Prize, a prestigious national award in the field of high technologies and the Internet, in the category of "Economics and Business".[7]

Since 2020, he has been participating in the work of the Board of the Federation of Creative Industries.[8]

In June 2021, he was elected as the Chairman of the Board of the public-state organization "Russian Center for the Circulation of Rights to the Results of Creative Activities", established by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.[9]

• 2016 — he entered the rating of "the best top managers of Russia", taking 6th place in the category "top managers, professional services" and awarded "TOP-100 Russian Best Managers" award in the special nomination "For Achievements in the Field of Protection of Intellectual Property".[10]
• 2017 – he was awarded a special prize of the Professional Award of the Association of Film and Television Producers (APKiT) "For the technological breakthrough of the year".[11]
• 2017 – he was awarded a certificate of merit of the Moscow City Duma for services to the city community.[12]
• 2018 – he was awarded a testomonial from the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Krichevsky was called a professional raider[13] in the "yellow press" and accused of involvement in raider seizures,[14] as well as in providing advice to the raiders. Krichevsky responded to attacks in the press. After the publication against Krichevsky of the article "The story of the undermining of copyright", written by Artem Kiryanov, a member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, “Komsomolskaya Pravda” published Krichevsky's response.[15] Kiryanov's original article was removed by the newspaper's editors from the “Komsomolskaya Pravda” website.