dobrolubov.narod.ru was the official website of the State N.A. Dobrolyubov Literary Memorial Museum in Nizhny Novgorod, hosted in the free zone of narod.ru. The site was listed in the nn.ru catalog (the /rub/ section) as a resource of the Nizhny Novgorod internet[1]; the earliest surviving snapshot of its home page is dated 17 November 2001, and the latest known snapshot in the web archive dates to 2022[1][3].

What the site looked like

According to the description in the nn.ru catalog, the site "tells about the life of the great critic and native of Nizhny Novgorod, contains comprehensive information about the museum's work, and also the latest news of both the museum and the whole cultural life of Nizhny"[1]. An early 2001 snapshot records the page title "Official website of the N.A. Dobrolyubov Literary Memorial Museum" and the service data at the bottom: the webmaster credit — Evg. Terechov, copyright © 2001 "N.A. Dobrolyubov Literary Memorial Museum", and a last-updated mark — "November 04, 2001"[1].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was part of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet of the early 2000s and was included in the nn.ru catalog as a separate resource about the museum and its founder[1]. No data on the site's position in the Counter.nn.ru ranking or on votes in the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day is recorded in our sample — this means the absence of information in the available snapshots, not a zero result; more on the methodology of collecting them is in the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating[1].

Move and closure

By April 2011 the site on narod.ru had already ceased to be an independent platform of the museum: a snapshot of its home page dated 23 April 2011 contains only a redirect notice — "The official website of the State N.A. Dobrolyubov Literary Memorial Museum is located at: www. dobrolyubov-museum.ru. If your browser supports redirection, in 5 seconds you will be moved to our new site. WELCOME!", as the home page stated[2]. A later snapshot, dated 30 March 2022, again records the address of the new site — www. dobrolyubov-museum.ru — and mentions uCoz hosting, which by that time supported the placeholder page standing in for the old address[3]. According to the census card, the last snapshot of the domain in the web archive dates to October 2022, and the domain itself is listed as dead[1].

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2011 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2022 (archive)