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MaximaTelecom
MaximaTelecom is a Russian technology company engaged in the development and commercialization of public wireless networks, Wi-Fi network operator in the Moscow Metro. History The company was founded in 2004 and for long time was an asset of the Russian systems integrator . In 2013, MaximaTelecom was purchased by a group of private investors headed by Sergey Aslanyan (entrepreneur), Sergey Aslanyan, the former president of the group Sitronics. In July of the same year the company took part in the auction of the Moscow Metro for the right to create Wi-Fi network and signed a contract as the only bidder. Projects Moscow Metro The main contenders for the creation and maintenance of the network in the Moscow metro were cellular operators, members of the 'big three' - MegaFon, Mobile TeleSystems and VimpelCom. Access to the subway infrastructure was interesting for the companies in terms of expanding the coverage area of their own mobile networks and Internet connections. How ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Aslanyan (entrepreneur)
Sergey Aslanyan (; born September 18, 1973, in Yerevan, USSR) is a Russian businessman and executive manager. He is the founder and Chairman of the Board at MaximaTelecom. Biography Sergey Aslanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, graduated from the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1996, Aslanyan received a degree in Applied Mathematics. Aslanyan started his career in 1997 as a senior consultant at the auditing company Coopers & Lybrand, which soon merged with Price Waterhouse and was titled PricewaterhouseCoopers. In 2001, he joined TNK-BP Management as deputy head of the information technology unit. In December 2003, Aslanyan was invited to join Mobile TeleSystems as Vice President of Information Technology – this position was created specially for him. In July 2006, he was appointed as Vice President of Engineering and Information Technology. He supervised the transition of the telecommunications operator to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VimpelCom
VEON Ltd. (formerly VimpelCom Ltd.), also known as VEON Group, is a multinational telecommunication and digital services company. Headquartered in Dubai, the company is publicly traded on the U.S.-based NASDAQ stock exchange. VEON operates in six markets in Europe and Asia, including Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Specific brands include Banglalink in Bangladesh, Jazz in Pakistan, Kyivstar in Ukraine, and units operating in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan under the Beeline brand. In 2024, the company had 160 million total customers, 1.8 million fixed line customers, and 111 million monthly active users of its digital services, with products and services in areas such as mobile financial services, entertainment, health, and education among others. History 2009–2016 VEON was founded in 2009 as VimpelCom, a multinational holding company. Incorporated in Bermuda and headquartered in the Netherlands, VimpelCom was formed when Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya
Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya () is an underground station on the Butovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro subway system in Moscow, Russia. The station, opened with four other light metro stations on 27 December 2003. Its design is unique, as it contains two separate platforms on either side of another metro station, Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line. Name It is named for the street under which the station lies. Building The station is built with a type of iron-concrete and shiny glazed marble, with sconces in small alcoves hanging above benches for passengers waiting for the next train. The platforms are 4.5m (14 feet) wide and 102m (334 feet) long, making them the shortest platforms underground throughout the metro. It was also the only underground station on the Butovskaya line before its northward extension. The design of Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya station is made to be similar to that of its corresponding station: Bulvar Dmitriya Donskog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delovoy Tsentr (Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line)
Delovoy Tsentr () is a station of the Moscow Metro's Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line that opened on 31 January 2014. The station serves the Moscow International Business Center, after which it was named. The station served as the terminus of the line until 2017. Services initially ran westward to Park Pobedy, but from 2017, the functioning line extended onward to Ramenki. This station closed on 24 February 2018 and reopened on 12 December 2020. While it was closed, trains on that line bypassed Delovoy Tsentr and ran directly to Shelepikha and then continued along the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line. The original route of the Solntsevskaya branch of the line through Delovoy Tsentr reflected the fact that the branch does not have an active rail yard. Trains would shift from Delovoy Tsentr to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line The Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line (, ) (Line 3; Blue Line) is one of the lines of the Moscow Metro system in Moscow, Russia. Chronologically the second to open, it c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vystavochnaya
Delovoy Tsentr (, "Business Centre") is a station on the Filyovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro system in Moscow, Russia. It was opened on 10 September 2005, and was named Vystavochnaya () from June 3, 2008, to March 31, 2024. The high-tech design, which was the work of architects Aleksandr Vigdorov, Leonid Borzenkov, and Olga Farstova, is a radical departure from the design of previous Metro stations. The station is built on two levels, with the platform on the lower level. The upper level consists of two walkways which span the length of the platform. One walkway, the larger one, is enclosed in glass and sweeps from one side of the station to the other and back in a large arc. The other walkway is open and straight, running directly above the inbound track. The D-shaped area between the two walkways extends to the full height of the station. The two rows of pillars span both levels and are clad in stainless steel. The walls are faced with white plastic panels and brown marble, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rossiyskaya Gazeta
' () is a Russian newspaper published by the Government of Russia. History ''Rossiyskaya Gazeta'' was founded in 1990 by the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR during the ''glasnost'' reforms in Soviet Union, shortly before the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, country dissolved in 1991. ''Rossiyskaya Gazeta'' became official government newspaper of the Russian Federation, replacing ''Izvestia'' and ''Sovetskaya Rossiya'' newspapers, which were both privatized after the Soviet Union's dissolution. The role of ''Rossiyskaya Gazeta'' is determined by the Law of the Russian Federation N 5-FZ, dated 14 June 1994 and entitled "''On the Procedure of Publication and Enactment of Federal Constitutional Laws, Federal Laws and Acts of the Houses of the Federal Assembly''", by the Decrees of the President of the Russian Federation, dated 23 May 1996 No. 763, "''On the Procedure of Publication and Enactment of the Acts of the President of the Russian Federation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
The Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line (, , also ТКЛ) formerly Zhdanovsko-Krasnopresnenskaya () (Line 7; Purple Line) is the busiest line of the Moscow Metro system in Moscow, Russia. Built in 1966–1975 and extended in 2013–15, it cuts Moscow on a northwest-southeast axis and contains 23 stations. History The Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line is a classic example of Soviet urban planning, sometimes referred to as the seventh stage of the Moscow Metro. Construction began in the early 1960s, and in 1966 the first complete segment was opened. In the practice of Moscow radial line openings, it began at the ring and left through to the new housing massifs on the southeast of Moscow, originally called the Zhdanovskaya line (Ждановская линия). The construction of the new radius was designed to maximize the efficiency of it with the land-based transportation. All the stations were built on major transport links and the stations Tekstilshchiki and Vykhino were integra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
The Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line (, ) (Line 6; Orange Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro, that originally existed as two separate radial lines, Rizhskaya and Kaluzhskaya opened in 1958 and 1962, respectively. Only in 1971 were they united into a single line as the central section connecting the stations Oktyabrskaya to Prospekt Mira was completed. It was also the first line in Moscow to have a cross-platform transfer. The Rizhsky radius is roughly aligned with a northern avenue Prospekt Mira, while the Kaluzhskiy radius generally follows a southwestern street Profsoyuznaya Ulitsa. Presently, the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line is the third busiest in the Moscow Metro system with a passenger traffic rate of 1.015 million per day. It has a bi-directional length of , and a travel time of 56 minutes, typically it is coloured orange on Metro maps and numbered 6. History The Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line was the first one in Moscow to be built in the time of the new epoch, when contrary to the o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zamoskvoretskaya Line
The Zamoskvoretskaya line (, ), formerly Gorkovsko–Zamoskvoretskaya () (Line 2; Green Line), is a line of the Moscow Metro in the Moscow Oblast of Russia. Opened in 1938, chronologically it became the third line in the metro system despite being labeled second. There are 24 stations on the Zamoskvoretskaya line, and it spans , roughly crossing Moscow in a north–south direction. A normal trip along the entire line takes 55 minutes, with the trains on the line averaging . While most of the line is underground, there are some pockets of surface-level or above-ground track, mainly at the point where the line crosses the Moskva River. Many of the line's stations are renowned for their grand interiors and intricate architectural features and have been classified as objects of cultural heritage. History The first stage of the line followed Moscow's busiest transport artery the Leningradsky Prospekt or as it moves into the centre the Tverskaya Street (formally Gorkovskaya hence the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line
The Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line (, ) (Line 10; Lime Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro. The line first opened in 1995 as a radial stretch of rail connecting Chkalovskaya station in the center with Maryino station in the southeast and has been greatly expanded northwards since. Before 2007, it was known as "Lyublinskaya line" () by the name of the district of Lyublino that it passes through. As of 2024, the line has of track and 26 stations, making it the longest fully-underground line in the Moscow Metro and one of the longest tunnels in the world. History Plans In the early 1980s, the Moscow development plan put forward several ideas about solving the build-up that came as a result of the radial-ring alignment which has determined the development of the Moscow Metro since the mid-1950s. In the previous programme the radial lines, with an ever-increasing build-up of passengers, were forced to use the central transfer points and those on the ring, severely overcrowding the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RIA Novosti
RIA Novosti (), sometimes referred to as RIAN () or RIA (), is a Russian state-owned domestic news agency. On 9 December 2013, by a decree of Vladimir Putin, it was liquidated and its assets and workforce were transferred to the newly created Rossiya Segodnya agency. On 8 April 2014, RIA Novosti was registered as part of the new agency. RIA Novosti is headquartered in Moscow. The chief editor is Anna Gavrilova. Content RIA Novosti was scheduled to be closed down in 2014; starting in March 2014, staff were informed that they had the option of transferring their contracts to Rossiya Segodnya or sign a redundancy contract. On 10 November 2014, Rossiya Segodnya launched the Sputnik multimedia platform as the international replacement of RIA Novosti and Voice of Russia. Within Russia itself, however, Rossiya Segodnya continues to operate its Russian language news service under the name RIA Novosti with itria.ruwebsite. The agency published news and analyses of social-politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
