otdelstroi.ru is the website of a Nizhny Novgorod construction firm, OOO "Otdelstroi," recorded in the web archive as active from late 2002 to 2013, and by 2023 the domain was already parked[1][3]. The company was based in Nizhny Novgorod, at 17A Boynovsky Lane, and listed on its site city phone numbers with the 831 area code[2]; the site was listed in the nn.ru directory of Nizhny Novgorod resources, and its earliest version was hosted on the Nizhny Novgorod hosting service r52.ru[1].

What the site looked like and what it offered

Already in the earliest preserved version, dated December 2002, the site presented the firm through sections titled "Business Card," "Licenses," "Letters of Recommendation," and "Objects," and stated its line of work as "general contracting, installation, and finishing work in Nizhny Novgorod and Russia"[1]. By 2013 the site's structure had expanded: the menu included sections "About the Company," "Partners," "Objects," "Certificates," "News," and "Contacts," along with a bilingual "Russian / English" switch; the areas of work listed on the home page were "General Contracting, Construction, Installation, Finishing, Special Works"[2].

In the "About the Company" section, the site told the firm's history: as the home page put it, "twelve years ago, when our firm was formed, we, former site supervisors from trusts and construction departments, discovered a remarkable property of our profession"; the company originally focused on finishing work, which is where the name "Otdelstroi" (from the Russian for "finishing construction") came from, and later moved into general contracting[2]. The text was signed by A. E. Zryachev, director of OOO "Otdelstroi." The contacts page listed the address — Nizhny Novgorod, 17A Boynovsky Lane — the phone/fax numbers (831) 436-75-75, 436-74-58, 436-74-12, and the email address otdelstroy@internet2.ru[2].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was listed in the nn.ru directory of Nizhny Novgorod resources with the description "general contracting, installation, and finishing work in Nizhny Novgorod and Russia"[1]. In the preserved samples of the Counter.nn.ru and the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day vote, no data for otdelstroi.ru was recorded — this indicates an absence of data in the available sample, not a confirmed zero ranking or zero votes cast. The site's hosting on the Nizhny Novgorod service r52.ru in its early period further ties it to the local segment of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet of the early 2000s[1].

Fate of the domain

Between the 2013 snapshot, where the site still functioned as a full corporate representation of the firm, and the next preserved snapshot in February 2023, the domain moved into a parked state: the page, instead of the site's content, showed a notice from the registrar REG.RU reading "The registration period for the domain otdelstroi.ru has expired," with offers to renew, buy out, or choose a similar domain[3]. The material contains no data on intermediate versions of the site between 2013 and 2023 and does not allow establishing the exact date when the firm stopped updating or renewing the domain — the last recorded substantive snapshot of the site is dated June 2013[2], while the last snapshot in the web archive overall dates to February 2023 and already relates to the registrar's page rather than the firm's site[3]. When checked in August 2026, the site at this address was responding.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2002 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2013 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Domain page, 2023 (archive)