NGS.ru is a Russian

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founded in 1998 and based in

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. It is a major regional media outlet in the

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by citation index. NGS.ru is part of , a network of Russian regional

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s owned by

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History

The history of NGS.ru began on 12 March 1998, when Maxim Sidorkin, who was earning his living selling

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s, 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

called ''Novosibirsk City Website'' (), hoping to attract as many advertisers as possible. In 2001, the site became his main source of income. 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

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. At the same time, the website was rebranded, and the name "NGC" began to mean ''Independent City Websites'' (). The sphere of the company's activity was extended to

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in 2009, then to

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, Kuzbass and

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in 2010 and to

Irkutsk Irkutsk ( ; rus, Иркутск, p=ɪrˈkutsk; Buryat language, Buryat and , ''Erhüü'', ) is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 587,891 Irkutsk is the List of cities and towns in Russ ...

in 2011. In March 2013,

bought 75% of NGS's shares. NGS.ru and the company's other sites were subsequently integrated into Hearst Shkulev Media's , a network of regional web portals. 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. After its acquisition by Hearst Shkulev Media, most of these sections were spun out into separate websites; NGS kept its news section and ability to publish advertisements. 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).

Activity

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.

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* {{in lang, ru Companies based in Novosibirsk Mass media companies established in 1998 Mass media in Novosibirsk Russian companies established in 1998 Russian news websites Russian-language websites