ev.innov.ru was the website of the Nizhny Novgorod representative office of the Belgian "Flanders Export Agency" (Export Vlaanderen)[1]. It was listed in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet directory nn.ru[1] and represented the agency's trade and economic office at the address: Nizhny Novgorod, Kostina Street, building 4, office 412[1]. The first web-archive snapshot of the home page is dated 27 October 2001, and the last recorded one dates to early January 2006[3].

What the site looked like and what it offered

The home page of ev.innov.ru remained practically unchanged throughout the site's life: a description of Flanders as "the northern, Dutch-speaking region of Belgium" with a developed export economy, together with an invitation to use the agency's services[1]. As the home page stated, the agency had been established by the region's government and maintained a network of trade and economic offices "in more than 50 countries around the world," with representative offices in Russia operating in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Nizhny Novgorod[1]. The site offered help in establishing contacts with Flemish partners on products, industrial equipment, technology transfer, and the creation of joint ventures, as well as information about the agency's exhibitions and trade missions[1]. The page had a feedback form with the fields "name," "organization," "address," "phone," "fax," "E-mail," "HTTP," and "your message"[1].

The contact details of the Nizhny Novgorod office changed over time. Snapshots from 2001-2002 list the phone/fax number (8312) 31-73-36 and the email address ev_nnov@nnov.sitek.net[1][2]. By the last surviving snapshot, from early January 2006, the number had changed to (8312) 78-69-36 and the email to ev_nnov@mts-nn.ru; the page also gained a section heading, "Offers from Flanders companies"[3].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was listed in the nn.ru directory[1]. No data on visitor numbers from the Counter.nn.ru counter, nor on votes in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day rating, is recorded for ev.innov.ru in our data.

How it closed

No data on the domain being bought out or transferred to another address has survived in the material. The last web-archive snapshot of the ev.innov.ru home page is dated early January 2006[3]; after that, according to the available data, the domain ceased to exist.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2002 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2006 (archive)