nnovgorod.nakarte.ru was the Nizhny Novgorod section of the "Na Karte.RU" interactive map service, owned by the Rambler holding company[1]. The address was listed in the nn.ru catalog, in the "/rub/" section[1], and the site itself was described by the catalog's compilers as an "interactive map-scheme of Nizhny Novgorod with the ability to search for streets"[1]. The surviving web archive snapshots date to August and October 2001[2][1].

What the site offered

The home page was arranged as a navigational hub of the "Na Karte.RU" service: at the top was a choice of map — "Whole World," "Mediterranean," "Russia," "Chechnya" — and below it, in a separate list, city maps: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Khabarovsk[1]. For the Nizhny Novgorod map itself, the page offered a "navigator" with compass directions (N, W, E, S), a street search by name or part of a name, a choice of scale — 1:150,000, 1:75,000, 1:40,000, 1:10,000 — and a choice of action on clicking the map: "get information" or "center the map"[1]. Additional layers could be displayed on the map — the railway and the metro[1]. According to the home page, the service also included sections "my maps," "services," "help," "about the project," and "legal information"[1]. The page was accompanied by a seasonal banner ad for video equipment — "On vacation but still no camcorder? Any camcorder at the lowest prices!"[1], typical of Runet banner networks of the early 2000s. The footer read "Copyright © 2000-2001, NaKarte.RU, Rambler Internet Holding"[1].

Place among Nizhny Novgorod addresses

The site was listed in the nn.ru catalog as a city map[1], but the surviving sample contains no data on its position in the Counter.nn.ru ranking or on votes in the 2004 Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day. A broader picture of counter distribution among Nizhny Novgorod sites of that era is given by the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating; judging by the snapshots, this section itself was more of a city-level entry point for an all-Russian mapping service than an independent project of the local Nizhny Novgorod Internet.

How it closed

The web archive holds only two snapshots for this address — from August and October 2001, both with identical home-page content[2][1]. The address later ceased to exist as a separate domain[1]; the material contains no data on the service being moved to another address.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, October 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — First archive snapshot, August 2001 (archive)