NGS.ru
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Native name | Независимые городские сайты (НГС) |
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Romanized name | Nezavisimye gorodskie saity (NGS) |
Formerly | Novosibirsk City Website (1998–2008) |
Type of site | Online newspaper |
Available in | Russian |
Headquarters | 12 Lenin Street, Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia |
Owner | Internet Technologies OOO |
Founder(s) | Maxim Sidorkin |
Industry | Journalism |
Parent | Hearst Shkulev Media |
URL | ngs |
Registration | Optional |
Launched |
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Current status | Active |
NGS.ru[a] is a Russian online newspaper founded in 1998 and based in Novosibirsk. It is a major regional media outlet in the Novosibirsk Oblast by citation index.
NGS.ru is part of Urban Media , a network of Russian regional web portals owned by Hearst Shkulev Media.
History
[edit]The history of NGS.ru began on 12 March 1998, when Maxim Sidorkin, who was earning his living selling compact discs, created it using a simple FrontPage editor. It became one of the first 100 websites hosted in Novosibirsk. Sidorkin decided to develop the website as a web portal for residents of Novosibirsk called Novosibirsk City Website (Russian: Новосибирский городской сайт), hoping to attract as many advertisers as possible. In 2001, the site became his main source of income.[1]
In 2003, Sidorkin founded the stock company NGS (registered on 8 August 2003 with assignment of primary state registration number 1035403210325) and recruited its first employees. On 14 September 2007, the news section of the site was registered as a digital mass medium (certificate of registration ЭЛ No. ФС77-29543). In 2007, the company commenced to expand to Krasnoyarsk. At the same time, the website was rebranded, and the name "NGC" began to mean Independent City Websites (Russian: Независимые городские сайты). The sphere of the company's activity was extended to Omsk in 2009, then to Barnaul, Kuzbass and Tomsk in 2010 and to Irkutsk in 2011.[1]
In March 2013, Hearst Shkulev Media bought 75% of NGS's shares.[2] NGS.ru and the company's other sites were subsequently integrated into Hearst Shkulev Media's Urban Media , a network of regional web portals.[3] Prior to the deal on the disposal of the company, in addition to the news section, NGS.ru had many others, such as a car sales announcements section; search sections for real estate, jobs and employees section; a dating section; an online forum; and electronic mail.[1] After its acquisition by Hearst Shkulev Media, most of these sections were spun out into separate websites;[3] NGS kept its news section and ability to publish adverisements.
In 2017, a series of reorganizations within Hearst Shkulev Media began. At the time, NGS.ru was owned by Internet Tehnologies OOO (primary state registration number 1087448005050) and registered as a digital mass medium (certificate of registration ЭЛ No. ФС 77 - 84683 issued on 6 February 2023).[needs update]
Activity
[edit]As a major regional mass media outlet in Novosibirsk, NGS specializes in news related to local events. Its news is often republished by other media outlets.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Russian: НГС, an initialism of Независимые городские сайты (lit. 'Independent City Websites') and until 2008 Новосибирский городской сайт ('Novosibirsk City Website')
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Olga, Nevolina; Kamushkin, Konstantin. "Как заработать в интернете в Новосибирске" [How to make money online in Novosibirsk]. Delovoy kvartal (in Russian). Archived from the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2025.[unreliable source?]
- ^ "Крупный издательский дом купил сайты НГС в семи сибирских городах" [Prominent publishing house buys NGS websites in seven Siberian cities] (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 4 March 2013. Archived from the original on 9 March 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
- ^ a b Sobolev, Sergey; Kurilenko, Nina (24 November 2014). "Виктор Шкулев – РБК: Политики снизили привлекательность российского рынка" [Viktor Shkylev – RBK: Politicians have reduced the appeal of the Russian market] (in Russian). RBK. Archived from the original on 30 May 2016. Retrieved 31 January 2025.
- ^ "ТОП-20 самых цитируемых СМИ Новосибирской области – I квартал 2023" [Тop 20 most cited mass media in Novosibirsk Oblast – Q1 2023] (in Russian). Medialogiya . 19 May 2023. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in Russian)