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Cityline provided its services to such blue chip names as Mercedes, Vist, Soyuz and Computer Land.<ref name="EXPONET">http://www.exponet.ru/exhibitions/online/inwecom98/cityline.ru.html</ref> |
Cityline provided its services to such blue chip names as Mercedes, Vist, Soyuz and Computer Land.<ref name="EXPONET">{{cite web|url=http://www.exponet.ru/exhibitions/online/inwecom98/cityline.ru.html |title=Ситилайн (Cityline Company) |language=ru |publisher=Exponet.Ru |date=1996-12-20 |accessdate=2022-05-22}}</ref> |
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In 1997 Cityline, in association with Mr. Sergey Skatershikov, founded Netskate, the company that owned a dozen of the most popular websites from the early period of [[Runet]], one of which was the leading Russian ‘Web Design’ studio of [[Artemy Lebedev]].<ref name="IREX">[http://www.irex.org/resources/russiainternet/chronology.pdf Materials about the history of Russian Internet] {{dead link|date=May 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> |
In 1997 Cityline, in association with Mr. Sergey Skatershikov, founded Netskate, the company that owned a dozen of the most popular websites from the early period of [[Runet]], one of which was the leading Russian ‘Web Design’ studio of [[Artemy Lebedev]].<ref name="IREX">[http://www.irex.org/resources/russiainternet/chronology.pdf Materials about the history of Russian Internet] {{dead link|date=May 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> |
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Headquarters | Russia, Moscow |
Key people | Emelyan Zakharov, Demyan Kudryavcev, Egor Shuppe, Dmitry Bosov, Rafael Filinov |
| Parent | Golden Telecom (since 2001) |
Founded in December 1996, Cityline, a specialist provider of Internet technology (ISP), was one of the first major Internet providers in Moscow and across Russia. The founders of this limited company comprise a list of leading Russian businessmen:[1][2]
- Emelyan Zakharov, the renowned Moscow art dealer
- Demyan Kudryavcev, chief executive of the major publishing house Commersant
- Georgy Shuppe, the former president of Cityline.
- Dmitry Bosov; owner of the large investment company Alltech
- Rafael Filinov; currently Chairman of the privately held corporation Djeruialtin.
The line-up is completed by a major European investment company.
Cityline provided its services to such blue chip names as Mercedes, Vist, Soyuz and Computer Land.[3]
In 1997 Cityline, in association with Mr. Sergey Skatershikov, founded Netskate, the company that owned a dozen of the most popular websites from the early period of Runet, one of which was the leading Russian ‘Web Design’ studio of Artemy Lebedev.[4]
Cityline was one of the first companies in Russia to enter into a cooperation agreement with Microsoft as an official Internet-provider for Windows 98 and its Small Business Server packages.[5]
By 2001 Cityline had 100 000 subscribers and was bought out for $29 million by the international telecommunications company Golden Telecom that had been founded by the global corporation Global Telesystems.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Емельян Захаров: «Моя основная профессия — антиквар»
- ^ Ведомости, «Поколение Next» от 24.09.2007
- ^ "Ситилайн (Cityline Company)" (in Russian). Exponet.Ru. 1996-12-20. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
- ^ Materials about the history of Russian Internet [dead link]
- ^ Сервер новостей «What's new?» от 18.06.1998 Archived 2011-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Golden Telecom Acquires Cityline and Uralrelcom", Business Wire, April 3, 2001
