Here is the third ranking of the largest Internet companies in Russia according to Forbes. Total revenue 30 participants exceeded $ 5 billion

1. Yandex

Year established: 2000 Revenue : $ 925 million ( $ 947 million - the financial statements published after the date of issue went to press ) Number of employees: 3500

Figure : 19.1 million people visited the site every day " Yandex " in April 2012 . This month, the search engine for the first time surpassed the "First Channel" with its daily audience of 18.2 million people.

Founders , owners : « Yandex " created in the late 1990s, IT- entrepreneur Arkady Volozh ( pictured) and Ilya Segalovich programmer , once sitting at a desk in Alma-Ata physics and mathematics . In 2011, the company has successfully completed an IPO on Nasdaq. Investors valued it at $ 8 billion , shareholders received $ 919.35 million , the company - $ 385 million , and its founders became millionaires . Now the founders of "Yandex" 20% remaining shares : CEO Arkady Volozh company owns 12.4% , Ilya Segalovich - 2.6%. 4% ( more than the proportion Segalovich ) belongs to Vladimir Ivanov , one of the programmers who worked in company with the base, 8.1% belongs to other team members .

Business : "Yandex" - the largest Russian Internet search engine , successfully withstand the onslaught of the global Google: in the III quarter of 2012, it accounted for 60.5 % of the queries on Google - about a quarter of the market. Revenue "Yandex" has grown slightly faster than the online advertising market .

For the year : In December, "Yandex" Sberbank sold for $ 60 million 75% minus one share of the payment service " Yandex ".

Fact: In January, "Yandex" has tried to get help on Facebook, developed a special application Wonder. Facebook Administration disable it after three hours.

2 . Mail.ru Group

Year established: 2005 Revenue : $ 745 million * Number of employees: 3061

Figure : $ 795 million dividend ( more revenue for the entire 2012 ) paid the group last summer . It was money from the sale of shares in Facebook and other foreign assets.

Founders , owners : Group grew out of the mail service , established in 1998 by St. Petersburg programmers. In the early 2000s it has invested fund Digital Sky Technologies Yuri Milner and Gregory Finger , and the head of Mail.ru was rapidly made ​​a career programmer Dmitry Grishin (pictured) . In 2005, became the holding company Mail.ru and began buying up Internet companies in Russia and abroad. Among the owners appeared billionaire Alisher Usmanov (№ 1 on the list Forbes - 2012) and Milner and Finger gradually moved away from the control , and sold their stakes . Now the main owners - South African media group Naspers ( 29%) and New Media Technologies Usmanov (25.3%) .

Business : The main income Mail.ru Group - advertising and applications , and the main product - a huge audience , attracted by mail, news and thematic portals like " of [email protected] ." The Group owns about 40 % of the network "VKontakte " network "Schoolmates" , Russia`s largest job search portal Headhunter.ru.

For the year : In 2012, Mail.ru Group totally withdrew from the shareholders Groupon and Zynga, part of the proceeds promised Usmanov , will be spent on increasing the package "VKontakte" .

Fact: For access to foreign markets group acquired in 2012 domain My.com.

* According to official reports , published after check Forbes print , Mail.ru Group `s revenue in 2012 was $ 682 million to Forbes was considered part of the payments referred to by 2013 .

3 . Platypus

Year established: 2000 Revenue : $ 300 million number of employees: 5,000

Digital : 40 000 m. m of warehouse space .

Founders , owners : The company was founded by Sergey Razumov - Executive Director of the Firm " Ellit " who engaged in export of products of metallurgical holding "Severstal". Structure of the company closed , but we know that now , " Platypus " is completely controlled by the founder of "Severstal" Alexey Mordashov (pictured , № 3 in the list of richest Russians Forbes).

Business : Originally " platypus " developed as a network of trade in food and consumer goods through catalogs ( at the peak , the company had more than 200 points of registration and issuance of orders) and as an online store . But then the company decided to withdraw completely online in 2013 and will close the last 49 points.

Fact: The word " platypus " was included in the "Internet primer Moscow and the region " compiled " by Yandex " based on the most common search queries people in the region .

4 . Wildberries

Year established: 2004 Revenue : $ 290 million Number of employees 2200

Digital : Performs an average 18,000 orders per day .

Founders , owners : Tatyana Spouses and Vladislav Bakalchuki traded clothing catalog Quelle and Otto, and in 2004 opened the online fashion store small producers from Europe. Another co-owner - Sergei Anoufriev , his role in the company is not disclosed .

Business : Currently Wildberries - the country`s largest online store of clothing and footwear , the site features over 100,000 models and over 1,000 brands . Know-how - samovyvoza centers with changing rooms : now more than 100 .

For the year : Revenue almost doubled due to the expansion of trade and geography range .

Fact: The third in terms of sales after Moscow and St. Petersburg - Vladivostok .

5 . Ozon.ru

Year established: 1998 Revenue : $ 270 million Employees : 2000

Digital : 700 000 unique visitors per day .

Founders , owners : Ozon.ru Petersburg created a software developer and publisher Reksoft Terra Fantastica as an online service for the sale of books and videos. Terra subsequently went out of business , and share in the company was holding Ru-Net Leonid Bohuslav . The company has many portfolio investors : Index Ventures, Holtzbrinck, Cisco, Baring Vostok, Rakuten and Intel Capital.

Business : Major assets - store Ozon.ru, selling almost everything, except products online shoe salesman Sapato.ru, online travel agency, serving 3,500 orders daily .

For the year : The company bought Sapato.ru, built a new warehouse in Tver area of ​​16 000 sq. m. m , has launched a new direction - trade clothing.

Fact: The most difficult in the history of the order Ozon.ru weighed 644 kg.

6. Holodilnik.ru

Year established: 2003 Revenue : $ 262 million number of employees: 748

Figure : more than 1 million units of home appliances sold in 2012 . Founders , owners : Chapter of Valery Kovalev (pictured) and his wife owned 72% " Fridge ", another 28 % - the third partner , whose name was not disclosed.

Business : The company started with off-line of household appliances in 1993, now it brings only 30 % of revenue . 95 % of turnover is in Moscow and St. Petersburg . Hosting for 3D- images of the goods created a separate site Superholodilnik.ru, its development cost of $ 500,000 .

For the year : In Moscow, opened an offline store where represented brands Bosch, Siemens and Neff.

Fact: Valery Kovalev personally moderated forum and answer the questions : has written more than 3,000 posts on 1.06 a day.

7 . KupiVIP

Year established: 2008 Revenue : $ 256 million Number of employees 1100

Digital : Online 9 million registered users. Founders , owners : KupiVIP created employee BCG Oscar Hartmann (pictured) , copied the idea of the French Internet company Vente Privee, established in 2001 .

Business : KupiVIP.ru exposes for sale in limited-time promotions clothes, shoes and accessories from old collections of prestigious brands with discounts up to 90%. Holding includes shopping club KupiVIP.ru, online boutique KupiLuxe.ru, online shop ShopTime.ru, business unit KupiVIP E-Commerce Services ( development and maintenance of online stores ) and Model Agency New One. Investment: Among the first investors was one of the discoverers of Facebook - fund Accel Partners. In 2012, the company invested $ 38 million Intel Capital, Acton Capital Partners and EBRD.

For the year : The company opened ShopTime.ru and went to Germany , thanks to which stocks started KupiVIP.ru Euro Sale.

Fact: Oskar Hartmann is preparing to launch a new project - the sale of drugs through the machines .

8. RBC

Year established : 1993 Revenue : $ 186 million Number of employees 2570

Figure : 3.5 times the company has risen in three years after the IPO.

Founders , owners : German Kaplun and Alexander Morgulchik started business in the summer of 1992 - A daily bulletin released intelligence on currency exchange rates , news and analytics from Western news . In 2010, control group received RBC "Onexim" Mikhail Prokhorov , paid $ 80 million and agreed with creditors on debt restructuring of $ 220 million

Business : Who owns RBC three dozen electronic resources. Main - business portal Rbc.ru (9,4 million visitors per month , according to TNS), internet messenger QIP.ru (7,2 mln) news portal Utro.ru (4,8 million) videoportal Smotri.com ( 4.7 million ) . Outside Internet RBC belong newspaper "RBC -Daily», magazine « RBC », Salon Interior, « Ideas for your home ." Companies owned by the hosting provider and domain registrar Hosting Community.

For the year : spring 2012 RBC founder left holding German Kaplun , who now heads Sergei Lavrukhin (pictured) . Fall in RBC moved founders Independent Media Derk Sauer and Elena Myasnikov. Sauer became president of RBC .

9 . Biglion

Year established : 2010 Revenue : $ 175 million Employees : 1200

Figure : one million orders for products and processes coupons per month Biglion. Per user accounts 2-3 coupon per month, with the most active - and 10.

Founders , owners : The company was founded top managers holding RBC - former CEO of RBK Money payment service Vladimir Vinogradov, deputy director general Oleg RBC Savtsova (pictured) and his wife, Irina . They control the company , minority belong to several funds.

Business : The leader in terms of turnover of coupon services in Russia . Sells as coupons for services and goods , and the goods themselves at a discount. Sales of goods began in December 2011 , earned logistics infrastructure - storage 5000 m. m and delivery service .

Investments : In 2010, the Fund Ru-Net Leonid Bohuslav acquired more than 10 % of the company , investing $ 2 million in 2011 Biglion raised $ 25 million from Tiger Global Management, sold the package size is not named .

For the year : In 2012 the company brought the share of the sale of goods to a third of turnover , the rest - the sale of services . Company acquired Belarusian Bongo.by coupon service and also began to develop a new direction - food delivery .

10 . VKontakte

Year established: 2006 Revenue : $ 150 million number of employees: 200

Figure : 42 million visitors a day - about taking this record reported in November 2012, the founder of "VKontakte" Pavel Durov on his page on the social network .

Founders , owners : Social network created Petersburg programmer Pavel Durov and his schoolmate Vyacheslav Mirilashvili son major St. Petersburg businessman Mikhail Mirilashvili . Now holding Mail.ru Group controls 39.99 % of social network . The remaining 60 % divided between family Mirilashvili ( about 40%) , Pavel Durov (12%) and Lev Leviev ( 8%).

Business : "VKontakte" - the largest social network in Russia , largely borrowed functional Facebook. As overseas counterpart, earns not only advertising, but also in training camp with thousands of developers placed in network applications. A year ago, the network has moved to domain Vk.com, announced plans for international expansion .

Fact: Pavel Durov , the charismatic founder of the network, vehemently declares high moral approach in advertising : "VKontakte" , according to him, never advertise alcohol and cigarettes. In this rapid growth of the network is not least due to the freedom organize user-generated content , which critics have repeatedly called pornographic and pirated .