Natalia Valerievna Fileva (; 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 4th richest woman in Russia, with a worth estimated at .
Biography
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. 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. Fileva was en route to a medical appointment in Frankfurt from France when the crash occurred. Also, 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.
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«Она построила лучший авиационный бизнес в стране»: жизнь и принципы Наталии Филевой. Forbes Russia. 1 April 2019.