KrioRus

{{Infobox company

| name = KrioRus

| native_name = КриоРус

| native_name_lang = ru

| logo = KrioRus logo.jpg

| type = Limited liability partnership{{cite web|url=http://test-facts.interfax.ru/companies/4CCFFAE9ABE0316BFE943D849D08AC8B |script-title=ru:Общество с ограниченной ответственностью "КриоРус" |language=ru |publisher=Interfax |accessdate=2016-10-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161028022209/http://test-facts.interfax.ru/companies/4CCFFAE9ABE0316BFE943D849D08AC8B |archivedate=2016-10-28 |url-status=dead }}

| foundation = {{Start date|2006}}
({{Time ago| 2006}})

| founder = Danila Medvedev
{{Interlanguage link multi|Valerya Udalova|ru|3=Удалова, Валерия Викторовна|lt=Valerya Udalova}}{{refn|group=note|name=count_found|Nine people.{{cite web|url=http://www.trud.ru/trud.php?id=200605170860301 |script-title=ru:Клиенты верят в бессмертие |last=Чебышева К. |publisher=Trud (Russian newspaper) |accessdate=2013-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071113043826/http://www.trud.ru/trud.php?id=200605170860301 |archivedate=2007-11-13 |url-status=dead |language=ru }}}}

| location = {{Interlanguage link multi|Samarkand Blvd.|ru|3=Бескудниковский бульвар|lt=Beskudnikovskiy Blvd.}}, bld. 24/1, apartment 210

| location_city = Moscow

| location_country = Russian Federation

| area_served = Worldwide

| key_people = {{Unbulleted list|Valerya Udalova (CEO)|Danila Medvedev (Chairman)}}

| industry = Cryonics
Cryopreservation

| products =

| revenue = 8,000,000 (2013){{Cite web|author=Елена Краузова |url=http://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2014/02/19/56bf62759a7947299f72d541 |title=Ледяное бессмертие |publisher=РБК |language=ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826235820/http://www.rbc.ru/newspaper/2014/02/19/56bf62759a7947299f72d541 |archivedate=2016-08-26 |url-status=dead }}

| members = 11

| num_employees = 0 (2017){{Cite web|url=https://www.rusprofile.ru/id/3291014|title=ООО "Криорус"|website=www.rusprofile.ru}}

| homepage = {{URL|http://www.kriorus.ru/en}}

}}

KrioRus ({{langx|ru|КриоРус}}) is the first cryonics company in Russia. It was founded in 2005 by the Russian Transhumanist Movement NGO. It is the only cryonic company in Europe to possess an own cryonic storage.{{refn|group=note|name=history|{{See below|History}}}} The company offers the services of freezing the entire bodies or heads of clients in liquid nitrogen with a plan to revive them if such a technology is developed, but takes no legal obligations to do so.{{refn|group=note|name=legal|{{See below|Legal aspects}}}}

History

KrioRus was founded in 2005 by a group of nine people who wanted to be cryogenically frozen along with their relatives to be revived in the future. Some of the company founders had past experience in the field of cryopreservation. For instance, in 2003, Igor ARyukhov was the chief advisor to the project that aimed to preserve the brain of a deceased biotechnologist.{{cite web|author=Анастасия Давыдкина, Татьяна Филимонова |url=http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1916405 |script-title=ru:Упорный труп |publisher=Kommersant |language=ru |accessdate=2013-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230232/http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1916405 |archivedate=2016-03-03 |url-status=dead }}

The company was established as a project run by the Russian Transhumanist Movement NGO. The same year Lydia Fedorenko became the company's first client, yet by that time KrioRus had no cryogemic storage, and Fedorenko relatives had to store her brain with solid CO². By the mid-2010s the company had clients from the United States, Netherlands, Japan, Israel, Italy, Switzerland and Australia. Several relatives of KrioRus employees were put in cryogenic storage as well.{{Cite web |author=Weaver, Courtney |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d634e198-a435-11e5-873f-68411a84f346.html |title=Inside the weird world of cryonics |publisher=Financial Times |date=2015-12-18 |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123205909/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d634e198-a435-11e5-873f-68411a84f346.html |archivedate=2016-01-23 |url-status=bot: unknown }}{{Dead link|date=June 2022}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gazeta.ru/science/2006/05/10_a_635428.shtml |script-title=ru:Мозги отмороженные |language=ru |author=Алексей Паевский |publisher=Gazeta.ru |accessdate=2013-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914155012/http://www.gazeta.ru/science/2006/05/10_a_635428.shtml |archivedate=2012-09-14 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|author=Валерий Спиридонов |url=https://ria.ru/authors/20160609/1445170554.html |script-title=ru:Уйти в минус и выжить |publisher=RIA Novosti |language=ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820215828/http://ria.ru/authors/20160609/1445170554.html |archivedate=2016-08-20 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.mk.ru/science/interview/2011/01/20/559472-15-rossiyan-otpravilis-v-buduschee.html |title=15 россиян отправились в будущее |language=ru |accessdate=2013-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810152516/http://www.mk.ru/science/interview/2011/01/20/559472-15-rossiyan-otpravilis-v-buduschee.html |archivedate=2014-08-10 |url-status=dead }}

File:Kriorus Inside, Cryostorage.jpg

KrioRus first cryogenic storage facility was constructed in 2006 in {{Interlanguage link multi|Alabushevo|ru|3=Алабушево (Московская область)|lt=Alabushevo}}, Solnechnogorsky District, Moscow Oblast. The second storage facility was launched in Sergiyevo-Posadsky District of Moscow Oblast in 2012.{{Cite web|author=Татьяна Батенёва |url=http://www.inauka.ru/experiment/article64521/print.html |script-title=ru:Фирма гарантирует бессмертие |publisher=inauka.ru |language=ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807230840/http://www.inauka.ru/experiment/article64521/print.html |archivedate=2007-08-07 |url-status=dead }} By 2016, the company planned to build another cryogenic storage near Tver and establish an R&D facility there.

According to KrioRus and press reports, as of August 15, 2019 the company has 70 people under care (36 bodies and 34 patients' heads),{{cite web|url=http://kriorus.ru/nashi-pacienty |script-title=ru:Список людей, крионированных в "КриоРусе" |language=ru |publisher=«КриоРус» |accessdate=2015-08-05 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722152638/http://kriorus.ru/Krionirovannye-lyudi |archivedate=2016-07-22 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|author=Josh Dean |title=Decapitate and Freeze Now. Figure Out Immortality Later |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-decapitate-and-chill/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161103123946/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-decapitate-and-chill/ |archivedate=2016-11-03 |publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek |date=2016-11-02 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://info.sibnet.ru/article/488566/ |script-title=ru:Новосибирцам предложили посмертную заморозу: афера или спасение? |publisher=info.sibnet.ru |accessdate=2015-08-31 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713183329/http://info.sibnet.ru/article/488566/ |archivedate=2016-07-13 |url-status=dead |language=ru }} 10 dogs, 17 cats, both male and female, as well as 4 birds and a chinchilla.{{cite web|url=http://hplusmagazine.com/2016/03/09/immortality-plan-b-cryopreservation/ |title=Immortality and Plan B: Cryopreservation |date=2016-03-09 |author=José Luis Cordeiro |publisher=hplusmagazine.com |accessdate=2013-09-20 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313103022/http://hplusmagazine.com/2016/03/09/immortality-plan-b-cryopreservation/ |archivedate=2016-03-13 |url-status=dead |author-link=José Luis Cordeiro }}{{cite web|url=http://kriorus.ru/Zhivotnye-kriopacienty |script-title=ru:Животные - криопациенты |publisher=«КриоРус» |accessdate=2015-08-05 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722155540/http://www.kriorus.ru/Zhivotnye-kriopacienty |archivedate=2016-07-22 |url-status=dead |language=ru }} In addition, there are human and animal DNA samples in storage. Almost as many as 200 Russian citizens have entered into cryopreservation agreements with the company.{{cite web|author=Надежда Попова |url=http://versia.ru/v-krioxranilishhe-v-podmoskove-zamorozheny-dlya-budushhej-zhizni-bolee-50-pacientov-a-eshhyo-neskolko-zhivotnyx |script-title=ru:В ледяном анабиозе |language=ru |publisher=Газета «Наша версия» |accessdate=2015-11-08 |date=2016-09-19 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108135516/https://versia.ru/v-krioxranilishhe-v-podmoskove-zamorozheny-dlya-budushhej-zhizni-bolee-50-pacientov-a-eshhyo-neskolko-zhivotnyx |archivedate=2016-11-08 |url-status=dead }} KrioRus is considered to be one of the largest cryonics companies in the world competing with Alcor Life Extension Foundation (170 people in cryogenic storage) and some others. In addition, KrioRus is the first cryocompany in Europe, that possesses its own cryogenic storage facility.{{cite web|author= Игорь Елков.|date=10 October 2012 |script-title=ru:Мороз под кожей|url=http://www.rg.ru/2012/10/11/moroz.html|language=ru|publisher=Rossiyskaya Gazeta|quote=issue 5908 (235)}}

The company has participated in a number of medical technology and funeral homes business exhibition in Russia and abroad, namely the Health Industry-2012({{langx|ru|Индустрия здравоохранения-2012}}),{{cite web|url=http://www.aktual-l.msk.ru/expo/exponents/exponents.html |script-title=ru:Экспоненты Выставки-2012 |quote=Экспоненты II Международной специализированной выставки «Индустрия здравоохранения-2012» |publisher=aktual-l.msk.ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420081441/http://www.aktual-l.msk.ru/expo/exponents/exponents.html |archivedate=2016-04-20 |url-status=dead |language=ru }}{{cite video|title=Life News. Москвичи спасаются от ...|url=https://rutube.ru/video/1f6492e4de9d37f6557786726769c184/|language=ru| accessdate = 2016-11-08|publisher=Lifenews}} Necropolis ({{langx|ru|Некрополь}}) (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016),{{cite web|url=http://gorod.afisha.ru/people/zevaki-k-nam-redko-hodyat-vot-ranshe-byvalo-goty-zaglyadyvali/ |script-title=ru:Зеваки к нам редко ходят — вот раньше, бывало, готы заглядывали |accessdate=2015-08-04 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102030809/http://gorod.afisha.ru/people/zevaki-k-nam-redko-hodyat-vot-ranshe-byvalo-goty-zaglyadyvali |archivedate=2013-11-02 |url-status=dead |language=ru }}{{cite web|url=http://funeralportal.ru/exhibitions/1029/23400.html |script-title=ru:Некрополь-2013: "Демонстрируем будущее, бережно охраняя прошлое" |language=ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421163846/http://funeralportal.ru/exhibitions/1029/23400.html |archivedate=2016-04-21 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://kriorus.ru/news/KrioRus-nagrazhden-Bolshoy-zolotoy-medalyu-vystavki-Nekropol-2013 |script-title=ru:"КриоРус" награжден Большой золотой медалью выставки "Некрополь" - 2013 |language=ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519012429/http://kriorus.ru/news/KrioRus-nagrazhden-Bolshoy-zolotoy-medalyu-vystavki-Nekropol-2013 |archivedate=2016-05-19 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ritual-minsk.by/news/news_necropol2013 |script-title=ru:Выставка "Некрополь - 2013" |language=ru |publisher=ritual-minsk.by |date=2013-11-01 |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506011915/http://ritual-minsk.by/news/news_necropol2013 |archivedate=2016-05-06 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://necropol-moscow.ru/spisok-eksponentov/119-spisok-eksponentov-vystavki-nekropol-2014 |script-title=ru:Список экспонентов выставки Некрополь-2014 |language=ru |publisher=necropol-moscow.ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827170134/http://necropol-moscow.ru/spisok-eksponentov/119-spisok-eksponentov-vystavki-nekropol-2014 |archivedate=2016-08-27 |date=2014-12-03 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://necropol-moscow.ru/spisok-eksponentov/327-eksponenty-vystavki-nekropol-2016 |script-title=ru:Список экспонентов выставки Некрополь-2016 |language=ru |publisher=necropol-moscow.ru |accessdate=2016-10-31 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031001515/http://necropol-moscow.ru/spisok-eksponentov/327-eksponenty-vystavki-nekropol-2016 |archivedate=2016-10-31 |date=2016-06-22 |url-status=dead }} Necropolis-Siberia (2016),{{cite web|url=http://news.ngs.ru/more/2492933/ |script-title=ru:Новосибирцам предложили посмертную заморозку за 36 тысяч долларов |language=ru |publisher=news.ngs.ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701134850/http://news.ngs.ru/more/2492933/ |archivedate=2016-07-01 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://necropol-moscow.ru/programma-nsk |script-title=ru:Программа выставки "Некрополь-Сибирь 2016" |publisher=necropol-moscow.ru |language=ru |accessdate=2016-10-31 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912043032/http://necropol-moscow.ru/programma-nsk |archivedate=2016-09-12 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://novosibirskvesti.ru/news/obshestvo/45730_novosibircam-predlozhili-posmertnuyu-zamorozku-za.html |script-title=ru:Новосибирцам предложили посмертную заморозку за 36 тысяч долларов |publisher=novosibirskvesti.ru |accessdate=2016-11-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108053111/http://novosibirskvesti.ru/news/obshestvo/45730_novosibircam-predlozhili-posmertnuyu-zamorozku-za.html |archivedate=2016-11-08 |url-status=dead |language=ru }} TanExpo (2016).{{cite web|url=http://www.tanexpo.com/site/index.html?id=216&lng=2&eid=736 |title=KRIORUS (Russia) – TANEXPO 2016 – Espositori 2016 |publisher=www.tanexpo.com |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420014232/http://www.tanexpo.com/site/index.html?id=216&lng=2&eid=736 |archivedate=2016-04-20 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://technicamolodezhi.com/news/novosti_nauki_i_tehniki/KREATIVNAYA_KRIONIKA |script-title=ru:Креативная Крионика |publisher=Tekhnika Molodezhi |language=ru |accessdate=2016-11-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108052554/http://technicamolodezhi.com/news/novosti_nauki_i_tehniki/KREATIVNAYA_KRIONIKA |archivedate=2016-11-08 |url-status=dead }} At 2013 Necropolis exhibition, the company received the gold medal for innovations.

Top management and staff

Since 2009, {{Interlanguage link multi|Valerya Pride|ru|3=Удалова, Валерия Викторовна|lt=Valeria Udalova}} is the current CEO of KrioRus.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rusprofile.ru/id/3291014 |script-title=ru:Каталог компаний — Информация о компании — ООО "КриоРус" |publisher=rusprofile.ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |language=ru |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812210351/http://www.rusprofile.ru/id/3291014 |archivedate=2014-08-12 |url-status=dead }} The former Danila Medvedev is the chairman of the board of directors and a deputy CEO for strategic development.{{Cite web|author=Сергей Апресов |url=http://elementy.ru/lib/432654 |title=Единственный шанс на бессмертие |website=elementy.ru |language=ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095335/http://elementy.ru/lib/432654 |archivedate=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|author=Дмитрий Черников |url=http://kommersant.ru/doc/991797 |script-title=ru:Киборги в раю |publisher=Коммерсантъ |language=ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514000843/http://kommersant.ru/doc/991797 |archivedate=2016-05-14 |url-status=dead }} Director for Science is the biophysicist, Igor Artyukhov.{{Cite web|author=Сергей Апресов |url=http://futurologija.ru/author/artyuchov/ |script-title=ru:Артюхов Игорь Валентинович |publisher=Ассоциация Футурологов |language=ru |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140809213818/http://futurologija.ru/author/artyuchov/ |archivedate=2014-08-09 |url-status=dead }} Since 2016, there are 11 people listed as company founders including Valeria Udalova, Danila Medvedev, and Igor Artyukov.{{Cite web|url=http://notecom.biz/org/kriorus/4379803 |script-title=ru:ООО "КРИОРУС" |publisher=notecom.biz |language=ru |accessdate=2016-11-07 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107102356/http://notecom.biz/org/kriorus/4379803 |url-status=live |archivedate=2016-11-07}}{{Cite web|url=https://egrul.nalog.ru/index.html|title=Предоставление сведений из ЕГРЮЛ/ЕГРИП в электронном виде|website=egrul.nalog.ru}}{{Cite web|url=https://xn--c1aubj.xn--80asehdb/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8/2546335-%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BE_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81/ |script-title=ru:ООО "КриоРус" |publisher=ОГРН онлайн |language=ru |accessdate=2016-11-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809212422/https://xn--c1aubj.xn--80asehdb/%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B8/2546335-%D0%BE%D0%BE%D0%BE_%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81/ |archivedate=2017-08-09 |url-status=dead }} The R&D team is led by cryobiologist{{cite journal|author1=Yuri Pichugin |author2=Gregory M. Fahy |author3=Robert Morin |title=Cryopreservation of rat hippocampal slices by vitrification |date=April 2008 |at= issue 2, volume 52. pp. 228–240 |doi= 10.1016/j.cryobiol.2005.11.006 |volume=52 |issue=2 |journal=Cryobiology |pmid=16403489}} Yuri Pichugin, PhD, who previously worked in Cryonics Institute (USA, Detroit) from 2001 to 2007.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cryonics.org/resources/dr-yuri-pichugin-cis-director-of-research-2001-2007 |title=Dr. Yuri Pichugin: CI's Director of Research 2001–2007 |publisher=Cryonics Institute |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425134933/http://www.cryonics.org/resources/dr-yuri-pichugin-cis-director-of-research-2001-2007 |archivedate=2016-04-25 |url-status=dead }}

Activities

KrioRus provides various services related to preservation of human and animal bodies and brains in liquid nitrogen.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bartarinha.ir/fa/news/285437/%D8%A2%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3 |script-title=fa:آزمایشگاه منجمد کردن انسان ها +عکس |publisher=www.bartarinha.ir |language=fa |accessdate=2016-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113052946/http://www.bartarinha.ir/fa/news/285437/%D8%A2%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%B9%DA%A9%D8%B3 |archivedate=2016-01-13 |url-status=dead }}{{refn|group=note|name=servicename|Service, that is provided by KrioRus is called "deep freezing of human and animal bodies".}} The company admits that the technology that would allow to "resurrect" cryogenically frozen people doesn't yet exist, and the success of the procedure depends entirely on the technological advancements in cryonics.{{cite web|url=http://izvestia.ru/news/591553|script-title=ru:Россияне заморозили рекордное количество кошек и собак|date=2015-09-17|language=ru|publisher=«Известия»|accessdate=2016-10-20|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914201952/http://izvestia.ru/news/591553|archivedate=2016-09-14}} The additional services include safekeeping of personal archives to help restore the clients' identities in the future.{{Cite web|author=Коровина, Ольга |url=https://biz360.ru/materials/kontrakt-na-bessmertie/ |script-title=ru:Контракт на бессмертие |publisher=biz360.ru |language=ru |accessdate=2016-09-20 |date=2015-10-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920181127/https://biz360.ru/materials/kontrakt-na-bessmertie/ |archivedate=2016-09-20}}{{Cite web |url=https://biz360.ru/materials/kontrakt-na-bessmertie/ |title=Контракт на бессмертие | Biz360.ru |access-date=2016-09-20 |archive-date=2016-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920181127/https://biz360.ru/materials/kontrakt-na-bessmertie/ |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|author=Ширинкин, Алексей |url=http://www.metronews.ru/novosti/metro-posetilo-laboratoriju-krioniki-i-uznalo-o-budushhem-zamorozhennyh-ljudej/Tpopbx---e58UnptX5vlDc/ |title=Metro посетило лабораторию крионики и узнало о будущем замороженных людей |publisher=metronews.ru |language=ru |accessdate=2016-09-04 |date=2016-02-24 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315225515/http://www.metronews.ru/novosti/metro-posetilo-laboratoriju-krioniki-i-uznalo-o-budushhem-zamorozhennyh-ljudej/Tpopbx---e58UnptX5vlDc/ |archivedate=2016-03-15 |url-status=dead }}

The company is incorporated in Russia and works in a relatively new and unregulated field, which allows it to provide services at lower cost than its US-based rivals.{{Cite web|author=Кортни Уивер |url=http://www.inopressa.ru/article/21dec2015/ft/cryonic.html |script-title=ru:В загадочном мире крионики |publisher=NEWSru.com |language=ru |accessdate=2016-09-20 |date=2015-12-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326094734/http://www.inopressa.ru/article/21dec2015/ft/cryonic.html |archivedate=2016-03-26 |url-status=dead }} It also plans to expand to countries such as Switzerland where euthanasia is legal, thus allowing for a more simple cryogenic conservation process. KrioRus R&F facilities are located in Moscow and in Voronezh and work on improving of frosting and defrosting methods and technologies. The company collaborates with the Russian {{Interlanguage link multi|Foundation for Advanced Studies|ru|3=Фонд перспективных исследований|lt=Foundation for Advanced Studies}} and other cryonics companies in the field of reversible organ deep-freeze technologies.{{cite web|url=http://medportal.ru/mednovosti/news/2006/05/06/krio/ |script-title=ru:В российское криохранилище поступили первые "пациенты" |language=ru |accessdate=2013-08-27 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809160910/http://medportal.ru/mednovosti/news/2006/05/06/krio/ |archivedate=2011-08-09 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://beta.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14509425 |title=In pictures: Frozen in time |publisher=BBC |accessdate=2016-08-27 |date=13 August 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827163437/http://beta.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14509425 |archivedate=27 August 2016 |url-status=dead }} — «Here, a body awaits being placed in a storage tank at the KrioRus facility near Moscow, Russia. One facility in the US offers the entire process and storage for about US $25,000 (?15,000) but others charge in excess of $100,000. A cheaper option offered by the companies is to preserve a person's head instead of the entire body».{{Cite web|url=http://www.strf.ru/material.aspx?CatalogId=222&d_no=118380 |script-title=ru:Японцев научат крионике в России |publisher=strf.ru |language=ru |accessdate=2016-09-04 |date=2016-06-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609144243/http://strf.ru/material.aspx?CatalogId=222&d_no=118380 |archivedate=2016-06-09 |url-status=dead }}

Legal aspects

Legally speaking, the contract between KrioRus and its clients is designed as an agreement to participate in a scientific experiment, hence the customers have to accept the risks associated and acknowledge that the "revival" is not guaranteed.{{Cite web|author=Вадим Смыслов|url=https://vc.ru/p/cryonics|script-title=ru:Замерзшие из Сергиева Посада: кто крионирует людей в России и в мире и сколько это стоит|publisher=vc.ru|date=2016-10-31|language=ru|accessdate=2016-11-05|archive-date=2016-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161105232352/https://vc.ru/p/cryonics|url-status=dead}} The contract covers the preservation of the bodies for up to 100 years. As KrioRus has a legal status of a scientific institution, its activities are not subject to certification.

Price list

In 2018, body freezing cost $36,000, head or brain freeze cost $15,000 for Russians and $18,000 for foreigners. The cost already includes the cryonation procedure and the cost of body storage.{{Cite web |title=Как работает единственная в России криофирма и есть ли смысл в заморозке людей |url=https://style.rbc.ru/life/5b6c219e9a7947d128a7f13b |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=РБК Стиль}}

Criticism

{{see also|Cryonics#Reception}}

Yevgeny Alexandrov, the chair of the Russian Academy of Sciences commission against pseudoscience, has said that there is no scientific basis for cryonics and that the company's offering is based on unfounded speculations.{{cite news |newspaper=Daily Telegraph |title='Insurance' against death: Russian cryonics firm plans Swiss lab for people in pursuit of eternal life |first=Alex |last=Luhn |date=11 November 2017 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/11/insurance-against-death-russian-cryonics-firm-plans-swiss |access-date=28 July 2019 |archive-date=28 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190728135525/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/11/insurance-against-death-russian-cryonics-firm-plans-swiss/ |url-status=live }}

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