nne.elektra.ru was the corporate website of Nizhnovenergo JSC (OAO "Nizhnovenergo"), hosted on a subdomain of the hosting platform elektra.ru. The site presented the Nizhny Novgorod power company: the editorial address was given as 603950, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, Novaya St., 10, and the press service phone number was listed with the area code (8312) in 2002, later (831)[1][4]. The project was listed in the nn.ru directory, in the "/rub/" section[1]. The first surviving snapshot is dated September 19, 2000, and further snapshots in the collected material span the period up to May 2013[4].

What the site looked like and what it offered

In 2002 the site's home page, titled "NizhNovenergo", described the enterprise as "the energy hub of Russia's largest region": according to the home page, the power system included five thermal power plants — Nizhegorodskaya GRES, Igumnovskaya CHPP, Novogorkovskaya CHPP, Dzerzhinskaya CHPP and Sormovskaya CHPP, 271 substations at 35-220 kV, 63,500 kilometers of 0.4-220 kV power lines and more than 11,000 staff[1]. The service area was stated as 76,900 square kilometers with a population of about four million, and the site attributed centralized electricity and heat supply to Nizhny Novgorod, Dzerzhinsk, Balakhna and Kstovo[1]. The page featured an industry news feed (in particular, on gas transportation tariffs and oil customs duties) and a newsletter subscription; the copyright line read "Copyright © 2002 OAO Nizhnovenergo Press Service (8312) 33-77-86"[1].

By 2011-2013 the site represented the "Nizhnovenergo" branch of MRSK Center and Volga Region JSC (OAO "MRSK Tsentra i Privolzhya"): a single toll-free hotline number, 8-800-100-33-00, appeared in the header, and the menu sections included "About the Company", "Shareholders and Investors", "Press Service", "Investment Program", "Procurement", "Customers" and "Contacts"[2][3]. The site posted issues of the corporate newspaper "Vestnik Energetika" ("The Power Engineer's Herald") and video reports, and ran a "Nizhnovenergo for Kids" section with a poll, "Which light bulbs do you buy for your home?" (options: incandescent, energy-saving, LED)[2]. In January 2013 a news item on the home page reported that "over the past month, 1,500 internet users accessed Nizhnovenergo's interactive capacity map"[4]. The company's phone number was given as (831) 431-93-59, fax (831) 431-93-81, address 603950, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, Novaya St., 10[3][5]. In the May 2013 snapshot, the partners list showed "Rossiyskie Seti" ("Russian Grids") in place of "FSK Rossii" ("Federal Grid Company of Russia") from earlier versions[5].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was present in the nn.ru directory as a corporate resource of the power company, but the collected material contains no data on its standing in the Counter.nn.ru ranking or on votes within the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day — the site was regarded chiefly as a reference/corporate resource rather than a participant in the competitive rounds of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet[1].

How it closed

The material contains no precise information on the reasons for or date of the site's closure. The last available web archive snapshot is dated May 1, 2013; at that point the site was still functioning as a section of the "Nizhnovenergo" branch of MRSK Center and Volga Region JSC[5]. The further fate of the domain and any transfer of its content to another address cannot be traced from the available data.

Sources

  1. nne.elektra.ru — Home page, 2002
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2011 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2012 (archive)
  4. nne.elektra.ru — Home page, January 2013
  5. web.archive.org — Home page, May 2013 (archive)