NGS.ru
NGS.ru 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, a network of Russian regional web portals owned by Hearst Shkulev Media.
History
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, 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 and recruited its first employees. On 14 September 2007, the news section of the site was registered as a digital mass medium. 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. 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.
In March 2013, Hearst Shkulev Media 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 and registered as a digital mass medium.