Tatyana Vladimirovna Bakalchuk (Russian: Татья́на Влади́мировна Бакальчу́к; née Kim, Russian: Ким, Korean: 김; born on 16 October 1975) is a Russian entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Wildberries, the largest Russian online retailer, and the country's first self-made woman billionaire. As of July 2024, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$7.4 billion.
Tatiana Bakalchuk was born on October 16, 1975, in a Koryo-saram family. She finished school in Moscow oblast and graduated from Kolomna University. She planned to move to Moscow and continue her education as a designer. Still, she had to abandon that plan and return to teaching English when the 1998 financial crisis struck Russia. Tatyana Bakalchuk was an English teacher.
In the early 2000s, she met her future husband Vladislav Bakalchuk, an entrepreneur and a founder of Utech ISP. In 2004, after giving birth to her first child, Bakalchuk launched Wildberries, which initially focused on reselling apparel from Otto and Quelle catalogs.