Yandex

Yandex N.V. is a multinational technology company that develops and operates a broad spectrum of Internet-related products and services, with a strong presence in Russia and surrounding markets. The company is best known for its search engine, which serves as a primary web portal in Russia and several neighboring countries, but it also offers online advertising, maps and navigation, email, cloud storage, music, video, and various mobility and AI-driven services.

Yandex was founded in 1997 in Moscow by Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich as a research project focused on developing a Russian-language search engine. Over the following years, the company expanded its product portfolio to include Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Direct advertising, Yandex.Mail, Yandex.Disk cloud storage, and other services. In 2011, Yandex completed a public offering on the NASDAQ under the ticker YNDX and established a Netherlands-registered holding company, Yandex N.V., to oversee international operations.

Core products and services include Yandex.Search, Yandex.Direct for online advertising, Yandex.Maps and Yandex.Navigator, Yandex.Mail and Yandex.Disk, Yandex.Music, Yandex.Translate, Yandex.Cloud, and Yandex.Taxi (rebranded as Yandex.Go after integration with other mobility services). The company also operates various regional shopping, gaming, crowdwork, and browser offerings, forming a diversified technology platform.

Market position and operations center on Russia and the broader CIS region, where Yandex competes with global tech platforms in search, digital advertising, and cloud services. As a publicly traded, regulated entity, it faces ongoing scrutiny related to data privacy, competition, and geopolitical developments affecting its business.