mpc.r52.ru was the website of the Nizhny Novgorod limited company "Medical Production Center" (Медико-производственный центр), a supplier of disposable medical materials, dressing supplies, medical equipment and instruments. The city was tied down right in the header of the home page: "Nizhny Novgorod" and three phone numbers with the area code 831 — 428-12-26, 428-12-27, 428-12-31[1]. The site lived in the Nizhny Novgorod domain zone r52.ru; the only date the page reported about itself was "Copyright ©2002" in the footer[1]. The company, as the home page stated, had been operating since 1993[1].
What the site looked like
The entire content of the home page fit into a single spread: the heading "MEDICAL PRODUCTION CENTER", below it the city and phone numbers, then a menu of six items — "About the company", "Price list", "Send a message", "Contacts", "News", "News archive" — followed by a paragraph about the company, a list of product groups, and two lines about terms of business[1].
The site handled interaction with the buyer only partially: the menu listed a price list and "Send a message", but there was neither a shopping cart nor order checkout on it[1]. Two conditions were stated separately: "Ready to consider barter proposals" and "We deliver products to regions via trucking companies and by rail" (spelling as in the original)[1]. The second line shows that the center worked not only for Nizhny Novgorod but also shipped to other regions.
What the center sold
The home page listed the assortment in detail, and that list is the most substantive thing left of the site. The "areas of special interest" included: dressing supplies, disposable surgical materials and instruments; single-use polymer products; products made of rubber and rubberized fabric materials; sterilization and laboratory equipment, furniture for medical facilities; measuring instruments and apparatus; equipment for examination and treatment rooms; consumables for radiology; prosthetic and orthopedic products; single-use clothing and linens; packaging for medicines; disinfection supplies[1]. The phrase "holds a stable position among suppliers of disposable medical materials and dressing supplies" from the home page[1] also became the description of the site in the nn.ru directory, through which the domain was included in our listing.
Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet
mpc.r52.ru was not a notable site: in our data the domain has zero votes and a zero rating, and it was noticed not in rating tables but in the nn.ru directory. This is a typical spot in the lower layer of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet: a business-card site for a wholesale firm that existed not for an audience, but so the supplier would have an address online with phone numbers and a price list.
How it closed
Content-wise, the site stopped long before the domain disappeared. Snapshots of the home page from September 16, 2011, March 25, 2013, and May 2, 2015 match word for word — the same text, the same phone numbers, the same "Copyright ©2002"[1][2][3]. The "News" and "News archive" sections remained in the menu, but the home page itself did not change by a single character from September 2011 to May 2015.
The Wayback Machine's first capture of the domain is dated April 1, 2001, the last — January 28, 2020; there are 75 records for the domain in the web archive in total[4]. Today the domain mpc.r52.ru no longer exists, and the site is accessible only through the web archive[4]. The surviving materials report nothing about the fate of the "Medical Production Center" LLC itself or about the reasons the site closed.
Sources
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2011 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2013 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2015 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Domain snapshots in the web archive (archive)