andrianov.r52.ru was the site of a Nizhny Novgorod furniture-making business run by S. M. Andrianov, who signed as "sole proprietor Andrianov" in 2001 and by the end of the decade was operating under the trade mark "Nizhkorpusmebel" (roughly, "Nizhny Case Furniture")[1][2]. The site was hosted on the Nizhny Novgorod host r52.ru[1], and from 2006 the enterprise was a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry[2]. Home-page snapshots in the web archive span 2001 to 2009.

2001: a single page about "small furniture"

The earliest surviving snapshot is dated 8 September 2001[1]. At the time the site fit on a single page headed "Sole Proprietor Andrianov / About the Company." According to the home page, the firm produced and sold "small furniture," offering "stands for TV and radio equipment, coffee tables, computer desks, chests of drawers in various colours and models"; separate lines read "Products certified" and "Discount system"[1]. At the bottom was the copyright notice "© 2001 Sole Proprietor Andrianov S. M.," a line reading "Coding: Info-Online," naming the site's developer, and "Hosting: r52.ru"[1]. The page's keywords listed "N. Novgorod," "Nizhny Novgorod," and "Nizhny Novgorod Region" alongside furniture terms[1].

Late 2000s: the "Nizhkorpusmebel" catalogue

By 2009 nothing remained of the one-page calling card: the site was now titled "NizhKorpusmebel — Official Site" and carried an expanded menu — "Home," "News," "Product Catalogue," "Shop," "Price List," "Reviews," "Contacts," "About the Company," "Awards," "Search," "Site Map"[2]. The catalogue was divided into sections: sliding-door wardrobes, wardrobes, hallway furniture, beds, nightstands, chests of drawers, coffee tables, TV stands, computer desks, kitchens, kitchen frames, joinery products, furniture with metal frames, office furniture, living-room furniture, and, separately, yacht furniture[2]. The home page featured a "new commercial offer" on ready-made sets — a living-room furniture set was posted as a 158 KB PDF file[3].

The "about the company" text dated the start of operations to 1996 and listed its clientele: homes, offices, service premises, as well as military units and institutions of the Ministry of Education[2]. A separate paragraph listed the machinery — "Holzma," "Rover," "Homag," "Biesse," "Vitap," "Nestro," "Fiak"[2]. It mentioned a sanitary-epidemiological clearance for production conditions, certification with Gosstandart of Russia, exhibition diplomas, and a Quality Declaration under the "100 Best Goods of Russia" programme[2]. The sales geography was described as "from Saint Petersburg to the Far East," with well-established shipping by rail and road[2].

Our survey noted a suspicious discrepancy between the domain's beginning ("Sole Proprietor Andrianov") and its later years ("NizhKorpusmebel"), but the 2009 text is signed by the same person — "The enterprise, Sole Proprietor Andrianov S. M. (trade mark 'Nizhkorpusmebel')"[2]. The domain did not pass to unrelated owners: what changed was the site's name and scope, not its owner.

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site entered our survey via the nn.ru catalogue's directory; it carries no measurable weight in the Counter.nn.ru rating sample, and it does not appear among the vote-getters at the 2004 Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day contest[4]. The only surviving measure of traffic is the site's own counter in the menu footer: 103,172 visitors as of 12 September 2009[2] and 111,727 on 21 December of the same year[3]. Exactly one hundred days separate the two snapshots, working out to roughly 86 visits a day — an ordinary figure for a manufacturer's trade site in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet of those years. For more on the methodology and the sample's boundaries, see the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating.

How it closed

The last home-page snapshot in our sample is dated 21 December 2009[3]. At the time this survey was compiled, the domain andrianov.r52.ru was not responding and did not appear in the domain name system; where the manufacturing business moved and under what address it continued to operate does not follow from the archived snapshots.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, September 2009 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, December 2009 (archive)
  4. web.archive.org — Day of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet voting results, 2004 (archive)