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- Alexey Potapov: Co-Founder and North America Regional Director
KrioRus is the first company outside the USA that offers cryonics services, including cryoconservation and storage. So far over 50 human patients and 20 animals have been cryonized in Russia by KrioRus. These patients are preserved in liquid nitrogen in anticipation of the future technology for their revival. Tens of clients have concluded
contracts with KrioRus on their own and their relatives cryoconservation in the event of death. In April 2012 a famous cryobiologist Yury Igorevich Pichugin signed his contract with Kriorus to be cryonized in the event of his death. Pichugin conducts scientific research in cryobiology in their lab.
Their company was founded in 2005 as one of the projects of the Russian Transhumanist Movement — a non-governmental organization engaged in investigating the prospects of advanced technological development and the popularization of science. Even before legal registration, in 2003, the first patient in Russia, now awaiting in their cryodepository, was cryonized in Russia by Igor Artukhov 14 years ago. Artukhov later became Kriorus co-founder and Chief Scientist.
