nne.elektra.ru was the corporate website of Nizhnovenergo JSC (OAO "Nizhnovenergo"), hosted on a subdomain of the hosting platform elektra.ru. The site presented the Nizhny Novgorod power company: the editorial address was given as 603950, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, Novaya St., 10, and the press service phone number was listed with the area code (8312) in 2002, later (831)[1][4]. The project was listed in the nn.ru directory, in the "/rub/" section[1]. The first surviving snapshot is dated September 19, 2000, and further snapshots in the collected material span the period up to May 2013[4].

What the site looked like and what it offered

In 2002 the site's home page, titled "NizhNovenergo", described the enterprise as "the energy hub of Russia's largest region": according to the home page, the power system included five thermal power plants — Nizhegorodskaya GRES, Igumnovskaya CHPP, Novogorkovskaya CHPP, Dzerzhinskaya CHPP and Sormovskaya CHPP, 271 substations at 35-220 kV, 63,500 kilometers of 0.4-220 kV power lines and more than 11,000 staff[1]. The service area was stated as 76,900 square kilometers with a population of about four million, and the site attributed centralized electricity and heat supply to Nizhny Novgorod, Dzerzhinsk, Balakhna and Kstovo[1]. The page featured an industry news feed (in particular, on gas transportation tariffs and oil customs duties) and a newsletter subscription; the copyright line read "Copyright © 2002 OAO Nizhnovenergo Press Service (8312) 33-77-86"[1].

By 2011-2013 the site represented the "Nizhnovenergo" branch of MRSK Center and Volga Region JSC (OAO "MRSK Tsentra i Privolzhya"): a single toll-free hotline number, 8-800-100-33-00, appeared in the header, and the menu sections included "About the Company", "Shareholders and Investors", "Press Service", "Investment Program", "Procurement", "Customers" and "Contacts"[2][3]. The site posted issues of the corporate newspaper "Vestnik Energetika" ("The Power Engineer's Herald") and video reports, and ran a "Nizhnovenergo for Kids" section with a poll, "Which light bulbs do you buy for your home?" (options: incandescent, energy-saving, LED)[2]. In January 2013 a news item on the home page reported that "over the past month, 1,500 internet users accessed Nizhnovenergo's interactive capacity map"[4]. The company's phone number was given as (831) 431-93-59, fax (831) 431-93-81, address 603950, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, Novaya St., 10[3][5]. In the May 2013 snapshot, the partners list showed "Rossiyskie Seti" ("Russian Grids") in place of "FSK Rossii" ("Federal Grid Company of Russia") from earlier versions[5].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

The site was present in the nn.ru directory as a corporate resource of the power company, but the collected material contains no data on its standing in the Counter.nn.ru ranking or on votes within the Day of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet — the site was regarded chiefly as a reference/corporate resource rather than a participant in the competitive rounds of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet[1].

How it closed

The material contains no precise information on the reasons for or date of the site's closure. The last available web archive snapshot is dated May 1, 2013; at that point the site was still functioning as a section of the "Nizhnovenergo" branch of MRSK Center and Volga Region JSC[5]. The further fate of the domain and any transfer of its content to another address cannot be traced from the available data.

Sources

  1. nne.elektra.ru — Home page, 2002
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2011 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2012 (archive)
  4. nne.elektra.ru — Home page, January 2013
  5. web.archive.org — Home page, May 2013 (archive)