"Metrostroy — Nizhny Novgorod" (metrostroy.hut.ru) was a section of an amateur website about metro construction, listed in the nn.ru directory as "A section of the Metrostroy website devoted to the construction and development of the Nizhny Novgorod Metro." The site was hosted on the free hosting service hut.ru and entered the Nizhny Novgorod segment of the Russian internet through inclusion in the nn.ru directory; according to the web archive, the page existed from 2002 to 2015[3].

What the site looked like and what it offered

The earliest surviving snapshot, dated January 18, 2002, captured only the page title — "Metrostroy" — with no text[1]. By mid-2003 the home page had developed content: as the home page itself stated, "unfortunately, the site only has a frame version," and visitors were offered links to sections available to those whose browser did not support frames[2]. The sections were devoted to metro construction in various cities: "Construction of the Moscow metro," "Construction of the Nizhny Novgorod metro," "Construction of the Krasnoyarsk metro," and "Construction of metros in other Russian cities"[2]. The site's author also invited visitors to write to him if they wanted a frameless version of the page — this is the only surviving means of contact recorded; no addresses, phone numbers, or a separate visitor counter are documented in the snapshot[2].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was known to the compilers of the nn.ru directory, who added it with a description as a themed section about the Nizhny Novgorod metro — this is what constitutes its connection to Nizhny Novgorod. No data on the site's standing in the Counter.nn.ru rating or on votes cast for it at the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day has been preserved in the available record — this does not mean the site took no part in the life of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet, only that such information about it has not survived in the sources available.

How it closed

The last known web-archive snapshot of the page is dated April 26, 2015 — by that point the content itself was no longer preserved[3]. According to a 2021 web-archive record, the domain metrostroy.hut.ru was by then redirecting visitors to the site holm.ru. No further information about the reasons or circumstances of the section's closure has survived in the materials.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2002 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2003 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2015 (archive)