'''Igor Pavlov''' ({{lang-ru|Игорь Павлов, Igor' Pavlov}}) is a [[Russians|Russian]] [[freelance]] [[programmer]] and is, 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 of a few other experimental programs including [[7-max]], [[7-benchmark]], [[UFA (software)|UFA]], [[777 (software)|777]] and [[BIX (software)|BIX]].
