Remembering Jovan Savović, creator of the invite-only sites Dirty and Leprosorium, which gave the RuNet ‘Preved’ and popularized writing Russian in deliberate misspellings. He was 43.

Web designer and IT entrepreneur Yovan Savovich died at 43 after a long illness. According to people close to him, he had multiple sclerosis. Savovich is best known as the creator of the Leprozorium and of Dirty, one of the first collective blogging platforms on the Russian-language internet. It’s fair to say he was one of the people whose projects shaped Runet before the age of social media. Meduza looks back at what Savovich will be remembered for.