insist.r52.ru was the website of Insist LLC (ООО «ИНСИСТ»), a Nizhny Novgorod company that designed, manufactured, and supplied vessel-type process equipment for the chemical, petrochemical, and food industries[1]. The office was located in Nizhny Novgorod at Senny Square, 6/49, office 14, with phone numbers listed under the 831 area code[1]. The site ran on the Nizhny Novgorod domain r52.ru; the Wayback Machine holds a snapshot of the home page from 2013, with the last snapshot dated 6 January 2019[2].

What the site looked like

The home page was built as a corporate business card. The top menu had three items — "Contacts," "Equipment," "Production" — while the side list was more detailed: "About the company," "Our advantages," "Production," "Equipment range," followed by industry sections "Chemical industry," "Distillery industry," "Champagne and cognac production," "Beer and soft drinks industry," and closing with "Contacts"[1]. The page header carried the company name and postal address: "Russia, 603055, Nizhny Novgorod, Sennaya Sq., 6/49, office 14," with phone and fax numbers (831) 432-57-13, 438-01-93, 438-04-07[1]. In the footer at the bottom of the page, the address was repeated with a different postal code — 603155 — for the same building and office; two email addresses in the same domain were also given there, insist@r52.ru and afrin@r52.ru[1]. No visitor counters are visible in the surviving text of the home page[1].

What the company offered

According to the home page, Insist LLC ("Engineering Systems") was founded in 1992 and, over the years, "proved the effectiveness of its working methods, which allowed the company not only to hold its market position amid the difficult conditions of Russia's economic transition, but also to reach the order level of leading enterprises across various industries"[1]. The main product lines named were vertical and horizontal vessels with conical, spherical, and torispherical heads, apparatus with agitators, heat-exchange units, and non-standard vessel-type equipment built to individual customer requirements[1].

The page also gave production details unusually specific for a site of this size. The company employed around a hundred people, seventy of them workers, including twenty highly qualified welders; equipment was manufactured from stainless and carbon steel[1]. In 2007 the firm acquired its own production facility in Nizhny Novgorod — "about 4,500 m³," as the text states — and re-equipped it with new machinery[1]. A separate paragraph listed the Rostekhnadzor permits: No. РРС 00-22564 for vessel equipment for the food industry with capacity up to 100 m³ and pressure up to 16 kg/cm², and No. РРС 00-32971 for equipment for the chemical industry with capacity up to 500 m³, pressure up to 16 kg/cm², and temperature up to 350 degrees[1].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site belonged to the industrial rather than the media layer of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet: it was not built to draw an audience but served as a reference about the plant for those seeking a vessel supplier. The site entered our census from the directory section of the nn.ru catalog, where its description read: "Design, manufacture, and supply of vessel-type process equipment for the chemical, petrochemical, and food industries, and water treatment equipment." The site does not appear in the surviving samples of the Counter.nn.ru rating that underlie the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating, so nothing can be said about its traffic. Neither the domain insist.r52.ru nor the name "Insist" is mentioned in the published results of the 2004 Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day vote[3].

How it closed

The Wayback Machine captured the home page 57 times; the snapshot in our text sample is dated 2 October 2013[1]. The last snapshot in the web archive is dated 6 January 2019[2]. Today insist.r52.ru does not load: the domain no longer exists, and no successor it might have redirected to is recorded in our data. So all that remains of the site are archived copies of its home page — this entry has been reconstructed from them.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2013 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Last snapshot in the web archive, 2019 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Results of the Day of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet vote, 2004 (archive)