VK (originally VKontakte, Russian: ВКонтакте, literally “in touch”) is the largest Russian social network in Europe. It is available in several languages, but is especially popular among Russian-speaking users, particularly in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Like other social networks, VK allows users to message each other publicly or privately, to create groups, public pages […]
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UAZ
UAZ (УАЗ) (Ulyanovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, Ульяновский Автомобильный Завод, Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant) is an automobile manufacturer based in Ulyanovsk, Russia which manufactures off-road vehicles, buses and trucks. It is best known for the UAZ-469 utility vehicle, which has seen wide use as a military vehicle in the Eastern bloc and around the world. The UAZ factory […]
Lukoil
Lukoil is Russia’s second largest oil company and its second largest producer of oil as of 2005. In 2012, the company produced 89.856 million tons of oil (1.813 million barrels per day). Headquartered in Moscow, Lukoil is the second largest public company (next to ExxonMobil) in terms of proven oil and gas reserves. In 2008, […]
Velesstroy
ООО «Velesstroy» – one of the largest companies in Russia in realization of the most complicated objects of the oil, gas and energy supply industry. The business of the company is based on the principals of maximal effective, qualitative and punctual satisfaction of customer’s requirements, application of high-tech and most advanced engineering solutions, absolute compliance […]
Gazprom
Open Joint Stock Company Gazprom is the largest extractor of natural gas in the world and one of the world’s largest companies. Its name is a contraction of the Russian words Gazovaya Promyshlennost (Russian: газовая промышленность – gas industry). Its headquarters are in Moscow. Gazprom was created in 1989 when the Soviet Ministry of Gas […]