'''Igor Pavlov''' ({{lang-ru|Игорь Павлов, Igor' Pavlov}}) is a [[Russians|Russian]] [[freelance]] [[programmer]], the creator and the maintainer of the file archiver [[7-Zip]]. He is also the creator of the [[7z]] [[archive format]],<ref name="A Few Questions for Igor Pavlov ">{{cite web |url=http://www.ddj.com/architect/184405338 |title=A Few Questions for Igor Pavlov |date=2003-04-30 |publisher=[[Dr. Dobb's]] Data Compression Newsletter |accessdate=2009-12-26}}</ref><ref>[http://sourceforge.net/users/ipavlov/ Igor Pavlov's profile on Sourceforge].</ref>
and a few experimental programs including [[7-max]], [[7-benchmark]], [[UFA (software)|UFA]], [[777 (software)|777]] and [[BIX (software)|BIX]].
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== See also ==
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* [[Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm]] (LZMA)
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.7-zip.org 7-zip.org]
* [http://www.7-max.com 7-max.com]
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