Eugene Roshal (Russian: Евгений Лазаревич Рошал, Yevgeny Lazarevich Roshal) is a Russian software engineer best known as the developer of: FAR file manager (1996) RAR file format (1993) WinRAR file archiverThe RAR compression algorithm is officially owned by his elder brother Alexander, because Eugene Roshal has "no time to concern himself with software development and copyright-related issues at the same time."