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The Russian part of the Internet about ten years old. For this short term we had first Internet millionaires, the Internet guru and even the first Internet brands. The Internet magazine "My business" has made the list of the several most successful Internet projects of Russia created in St.-Petersburg.
Service of post dispatches
the Owner of a brand : Joint-Stock Company "Internet projects"
the project Basis : January, 1998
the Basic competitors : Mailings@Mail.ru
The Largest service of post dispatches on the Russian Internet was born in a building of Computer centre of the October railway on January, 28th, 1998. Founders of project Citycat.ru which left Subscribe.ru, were Paul Jakovlev and George Kiselyov. Today in the project continues to work only Jakovlev - it holds a post of the technical director.
After one and a half year after start Subscribe.ru Joint-Stock Company "Internet projects" which basic product till now is service of dispatches have been based. In 2001 into structure of shareholders of the company have entered venture the Russian technological fund and Nordic Russian Management Company. And some days prior to preparation of this material it became known, that both funds have sold the actions of Joint-Stock Company "Internet projects". According to experts, with arrival of the new investor modernisation of inevitably becoming outdated service will begin. Neither the transaction sum, nor a name of the buyer are not disclosed, however we know, that the company estimation is that, that cost of the remained shares at founders - physical persons - is expressed by seven-element figures.
Today Subscribe.ru is more than 4 million subscribers and almost 40 thousand dispatches. Projects which can brag of the big coverage of an audience in the Russian segment of the Internet, it is possible to count on fingers of one hand. The service which has appeared in St.-Petersburg, people from all continents and, of course, from all regions of Russia today use.
The Free online translator
the Owner of a brand : Open Company "Promt"
the project Basis : 1998
the Basic competitors : are absent
Free online translator Translate.ru has been started by Petersburg company "»?«??" in 1998. Demonstration of possibilities of the paid translator was a project overall objective; then the English-Russian and Russian-English transfers of a plain text were accessible only, and site support was provided with only one person. However in 1999, despite full absence of any efforts on advancement, attendance of a site has reached 10 thousand persons a day, that has allowed service to become the independent business unit which is bringing in the certain income.
Since then both popularity, and functionality Translate.ru steadily grew. Since 2001 visitors of the project had an opportunity to translate not only a plain text, but also the whole web pages, and also e-mail. Today attendance of a site in the working day makes hardly less than 100 thousand persons, and transfer possibilities have extended to 24 language pairs.
For today founder Translate.ru - company "»?«??" - along with American Systran and Transparent Language is considered the leader among developers of technologies of machine translation of the European languages. Translate.ru, one of the most popular online translation services in the world, support about ten persons.
The Business portal with geographical targeting
the Owner of a brand : Joint-Stock Company "Bonniere Business the Press"
the project Basis as it stands - 2004
the Basic competitors : similar, all business the country Internet-smi
Dp.ru - concerning a young Petersburg Internet brand; however to us it seems to one of the most perspective. Site Dp.ru has appeared on the Internet still 10 years ago, but with 1997 for 2004 to this address there was an electronic version paper "Business Petersburg".
In 2004 Swedes ("Business Petersburg" belongs to Swedish family business Bonnier Group) have begun working out of a new business Internet portal - Bonnier.ru. However during any moment (on hearings, because of changes in the administrative board of the company) the project concept has undergone little changes. Working out Bonnier.ru has been suspended, and in the end of 2004 on light has appeared present Dp.ru. "Testing" the business model of a portal of business news on Petersburg, in April, 2006 Bonnier Business Press was opened by the project for Moscow, and in the beginning of this year - for Krasnodar. Already now heads BBP choose region for the further expansion. According to Internet magazine "My business", in the near future Dp.ru will open the representations in Chelyabinsk or Kazan.
the Obscene language, Masyanya, 3D and is a little services: 5 more Internet projects from Petersburg, subdued Russia
- cool the entertaining project based by Petersburger Dmitry Sokolinskim, the former worker of radio station "Europe Plus". The apologist of obscene language and platitude of russian Internet daily visit about 30 thousand persons.
- the native land made a noise of Masyanya which was drawn by Petersburg animator Oleg Kuvayev. Masyanya any more so it is popular, Kuvayev any more does not work in Open Company "Mult.Ru", however Mult.ru and remains the present Petersburg Internet brand.
- the largest Russian banner network which is known by any web master. The brand belongs to group of companies "Internest" which also develops a popular control system of Internet advertising AdRiver.
- a highly specialised resource for fans and professionals of the 3D-industry. The site based by Stanislav Svarichevskim, has grown in the studio with the same name which has been sold to the Austrian partners. According to Internet magazine "My business", the transaction sum has exceeded one million dollars.
- one of the most popular services of Internet statistics for developers of sites, belongs to the Petersburg studio of Open Company "Ank.ru". Probably, the studio name occurs from the initials of its founder - Andrey Kuzmin.
Oleg Puntselev
Source: "My business" (www.my-b.ru), on February, 12th 2007