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2024: The court ordered Yandex to pay ₽1,7 billion in taxes, which the company hid during the construction of a new headquarters

The Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal rejected Yandex's complaint and confirmed the decision to add ₽1,7 billion in income tax for 2021 in connection with the construction of a new office on the site of the Corston Hotel. This became known on December 5, 2024.

According to the Prime agency, the company tried to challenge the decision of the interregional inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service (FTS) of Russia for the largest taxpayers No. 7 of July 28, 2023.

The court ordered Yandex to pay ₽1,7 billion unpaid taxes, which the company hid during the construction of the new headquarters

In November 2022, Yandex presented an updated tax return, increasing non-operating costs by ₽8,4 billion due to the inclusion in them of the residual value of the demolished buildings of the hotel complex.

The Federal Tax Service recognized such an inclusion as unlawful, since the demolition was not an independent operation, but part of an investment project for the construction of a new office. The hotel was initially purchased for the subsequent construction of the company's headquarters.

The court agreed with the tax office's position, pointing out that demolition costs should be taken into account in the original cost of the new office building and written off through depreciation.

According to the publication, the company acquired the Corston Hotel together with a plot of 4 hectares in 2018 for $145 million. A complex of three different-height wings up to 15 floors with a central atrium and a transparent roof is being built at this place.

Yandex's new headquarters will be located on Vorobyovy Gory in Moscow. The ground area of ​ ​ the complex will be 162 thousand square meters. The court decision on the additional charge of taxes entered into legal force.

The Moscow Arbitration Court in September 2024 has already rejected the company's application to declare the decision of the tax service invalid. The appellate instance confirmed the legality of this decision.^[1]

2023

Yandex has reduced the area of ​ ​ offices rented in Moscow by 7% over the year

In 2023, Yandex reduced the area of ​ ​ offices rented in Moscow by 7%, or 12 thousand square meters. m, compared to the previous year. This became known in early May 2024 from the report of the holding company from the Netherlands Yandex N.V.

As Forbes writes with reference to these materials, as of December 31, 2023, Yandex occupied about 157,680 square meters. m of office space. Of these, 64,700 square meters are rented to accommodate the company's headquarters. M in one place in the center of Moscow (BC "Red Rose" on Leo Tolstoy St.), another 92,980 square meters. m occupied additional offices of the company in Moscow business centers. The statements do not say where these offices are located.

Yandex has reduced the area of ​ ​ offices rented in Moscow by 7%

The reduction was due to the sale of the Zen service in the fall of 2022 - the team occupied areas in the Aurora business center and retained them. We also abandoned the space in the Amaltea business center and transported employees from there to offices in the center of Moscow, "a Yandex representative explained to the publication.

According to him, most of the space reduced in 2023 fell on the Amaltea business center. From the company's statements it follows that by the end of 2022 the company rented almost 6400 square meters in Amalte. m.

The remaining part of Yandex's space reduced in 2023 accounts for 5420 sq. m. But, according to a company spokesman, there Zen was less space left for "."

According to the magazine, having parted with Zen and its office, Yandex did not leave the Aurora business center on Sadovnicheskaya Embankment, where at the end of 2022 it rented 31,200 square meters. m - on the contrary, the company has expanded. Yandex clarified that by May 2024 the company leases about 40,000 sq. m. In Moscow, Yandex also rents offices in the Moscow City and Lotte Plaza business centers, the publication says.^[2]

Yandex rented 10 thousand square meters. m in a business park near the Paveletsky station in Moscow for hundreds of millions

Yandex rented 10 thousand square meters. m of office space in the Aurora business park near the Paveletsky railway station in Moscow. Previously, they were occupied by the consulting company B1 (formerly Ernst & Young). Kommersant wrote about this major transaction in the office market in early November 2023, citing sources in the real estate market. Yandex confirmed the fact of the transaction.

According to the newspaper, B1 refused these areas at the initiative of the lessor, who was more interested in consolidating and extending the lease agreement with Yandex. According to the director of the department for representing the interests of tenants and buyers of Nikoliers Francois Nonnenmasher, Yandex's expenses for renting 10 thousand square meters. m in Aurora can amount to 330 million rubles a year.

One of the interlocutors told the publication that B1 would move to another Aurora building and occupy 9 thousand square meters. m. The reduction in space can be dictated by business changes after localization and the active work of auditors remotely, believes Ekaterina Belova, head of the office space department at IBC Real Estate. Kirill Babichenko, head of the services department for owners of the office real estate department of CORE.XP, believes that one of the reasons for the refusal of B1 from space is a reduction in staff. The B1 told the newspaper that the company remains an anchor tenant at Aurora.

By November 2023, Yandex also leases 55 thousand square meters. m in the business center "Krasnaya Roza" on Timur Frunze, 15,800 square meters. m m in Lotte Plaza in the Arbat area and is building a new headquarters for 170 thousand square meters. m on Kosygin Street on the site of the Korston Hotel. The total area of ​ ​ the complex will be about 262 thousand square meters. m, of which more than 110 thousand "squares" are office space. Yandex's expansion may be dictated by an ever-growing state. Over the past year, the number of company employees has grown by almost a third, to 25.7 thousand people, Kommersant notes in early November 2023.^[3]

Yandex asked employees not to work late at Moscow City due to drone attacks

Yandex asked employees not to work late at Moscow City (the company has offices in this complex) due to drone attacks. This became known on August 1, 2023.

Considering the situation, we ask you not to be in the office at night (from 01:00 to 06:00)... The restriction applies to all Moscow offices. Be careful!, - says the letter that the management of Yandex sent to employees (an excerpt from this document is quoted by Reuters).

Receipt of such a mailing to the Telegram channel BRIEF was confirmed by two Yandex employees. Employees at the company regularly worked in offices at night, they said.

Some IT specialists are generally owls, someone is an introvert and loves silence, but someone's deadlines are on fire. In the end, salaries in Yandex are such that you can work at night, "one of the interlocutors told BRIEF.

On the night of July 30, 2023, a drone attack occurred, as a result of which two towers in Moscow City were damaged - the building of the IQ-quarter complex and the Oko-2 building. On the night of August 1, 2023, the drone hit the same Moscow City tower. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on the morning of August 1, 2023 announced that the glazing of the building at the level of 21 floors on an area of ​ ​ 150 square meters. m.

According to the site of the "IQ-quarter," there are offices. The Ministry of Economic Development building also houses offices,,, and Ministry of Digital Development Ministry of Industry and Trade. Federal Accreditation Service Rosselkhozbank Employees of the Ministry of Digital Development were transferred to remote work by the end of the week, the department said on July 31, 2023.

The Kremlin reported that President Vladimir Putin was informed about the drone attack on Moscow and the region. Press Secretary of the Head of State [[Dmitry Nikolaevich Peskov Peskov Dmitry Sergeevich 'Dmitry Peskov]] called the incident an "act of despair" of Ukraine due to failures during the counteroffensive^[4]

Yandex recruits employees in Donetsk and Lugansk for remote work

Yandex has placed vacancies in Donetsk and Lugansk for remote work in the company. This was announced on July 31, 2023 by Kommersant with reference to the hh.ru site, which published proposals for work from the Russian Internet holding.

The company requires a manager and chat manager in the Yandex Go support service, as well as a text editor for training neural networks. It is clarified that the vacancies were posted by an individual entrepreneur Nikita Goncharov from the Rostov region, introducing himself as an "official partner" of Yandex.Taxi. At the phone number indicated in the ad, they noted that applicants will be able to work from Donetsk and Lugansk remotely. Yandex confirmed the authenticity of the ad, explaining that it was published by a partner of the mass hiring company.

The main requirements from Yandex are knowledge of the Russian language and the presence of a passport of the Russian Federation. A number of vacancies, for example, a support specialist, do not have a link to a specific geography, since the work is completely remote, the IT company said.

Hiring employees in the DPR and LPR will not threaten Yandex with sanctions, according to lawyers interviewed by the publication. The restrictions included mainly companies related to logistics, industry and banking, and those that focused on work in these regions.

Another lawyer believes that working for a Yandex contractor can be considered as a type of commercial activity, including benefiting from operations in these regions. At the same time, refusal to hire would be a violation of the constitutional right of the Russian Federation to work without discrimination.

The publication reminds that after the start of a special military operation, the Ukrainian registrar divided the domain yandex.ua. While Russia established control over the territories that were previously part of Ukraine, Yandex did not take any action to enter them, Yandex Go and the company's content services are not available there, according to a Kommersant publication dated July 31, 2023.^[5]

Yandex named the share of company employees working from abroad - 7.7%

By the end of 2022, 7.7% of Yandex employees worked from abroad. This is stated in the company's sustainability report published in June 2023.

From the materials of Yandex, it follows that by the end of 2022 there were 25,431 employees in the company. Of these, 92.3% worked from Russia, 1958 people - abroad. How many of the company's employees who worked from abroad are ready to return to Russia and work in Russian offices, Yandex does not specify.

The company only noted that in 2022 Yandex employees worked in Russia,, Armenia,, Belarus, and Israel Kazakhstan Serbia other countries. As specified in the report, these are mainly "specialists with significant professional experience, with a narrow and/or most popular specialization at the time of hiring." According to information on the Yandex website, its offices are located in more than 20 cities around the world.

98.6% of Yandex employees of the company worked in 2022 under a permanent employment contract, another 1.4% had project employment with a specific deadline.

Yandex says that 2022 "turned out to be difficult, including for employees" of the company. To help them cope with a "challenging emotional backdrop," the company focused on their psychological health, the report said. Consultations with psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists were available to employees. Psychological support programs were also launched in foreign offices and hubs of Yandex, the document says.

The turnover of personnel in Yandex remained at the level of the previous two years: 20.7% in 2022, 20.5% in 2021 and 20.3% in 2020. At the same time, the coefficient of undesirable turnover, reflecting the departure of the most valuable specialists from the company, increased to 5.7% compared to 4.9% in 2021 and 4.5% in 2020, Yandex reported^[6]

Opening an office and co-working space in Turkey

Yandex is opening an office in Turkey, which the company announced in early February 2023.

This office will be focused on teams that need to be in the country to develop services in the local market, "Yandex told TASS.

The press service of Yandex also noted that the company has been developing its Turkish business for a long time. So, in the country, users are already offered artographic and logistics services.

According to TASS, Yandex's office in Istanbul will begin work on March 1, 2023. The source of the agency explained that we are talking about a hub, within which not only an office is opened, but also co-working space. Registration of employees in the new office will take up to three months, the source added TASS.

According to the information on the company's website, by the beginning of February 2023, Yandex offices are located in 20 Russian cities, including Moscow and, in the St. Petersburg capital -, Belarus Minsk(), To Alma-Ata Kazakhstan Lucerne (), (), Switzerland (), Amsterdam Netherlands Shanghai China Newburyport (), as well as in and. USA Israel Czech Republic

Earlier, the board of directors of the Dutch Yandex N.V. (the head structure for the Yandex group) began to study the possibilities of changing the structure of ownership and management of the company "in the light of the current geopolitical situation." By early 2023, the company is considering creating international divisions for several services, including unmanned and cloud technologies, a platform for marking up data and educational services. Yandex N.V. was supposed to withdraw from the shareholders of all other Yandex businesses, including search, advertising, e-commerce, logistics, food delivery, entertainment services, taxis, car sharing and others both in Russia and in international markets.^[7]

2022

Opening of a representative office in Belgrade

On July 5, 2022, it became known about the opening of a Yandex representative office in Belgrade. The Russian company registered Yandex.Technologies Belgrade LLC, the founder of the company, Pyotr Popov, who at the end of April headed Yandex.Technologies LLC and the business group of search, advertising and cloud services. Read more here.

Israel allowed Yandex to create 1000 jobs in Israel

Yandex founder Arkady Volozh received permission to do business and create 1000 jobs with the support of the Israeli government. Previously, there were 450 people in Israel.

Yandex denied information about the movement of headquarters and employees to Israel

The press service Yandex commented on information the company's intentions to move its headquarters from Moscow Tel Aviv to and transport its employees to. This Israel became known on May 16, 2022.

The transfer of Yandex headquarters from Moscow or the relocation of teams from Russia is not planned, Yandex said.

In the current conditions, Yandex continues to recruit employees for some of the vacancies, including in Israel. Some of the positions allow for relocation. In addition, the company offers employees working remotely to receive salaries in a convenient way for them.

Yandex's Tel Aviv office has been operating for many years - it is developing Yango, the international division of Yandex Taxi, as well as unmanned technologies and other services^[10].

Arkady Volozh asks the Israeli government to facilitate the transfer of Yandex headquarters to this country

Yandex founder Arkady Volozh in May 2022 appealed to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett with a request to facilitate the transfer of the company to Israel, Calcalist reports. He decided to make Tel Aviv the headquarters of the company and bring hundreds of programmers, engineers and technology specialists to the country. Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Interior Minister Aelet Shaked and Minister of Science and Technology Orit Farkash-Hakoen also received copies of the letter. In the letter, entitled "Yandex - Expanding Activities in Israel," Volozh is trying to get the Israeli government to provide conditions for the relocation of non-Israeli employees. Volozh himself received Israeli citizenship in 2017 and lives in Israel.

2021

Opening an office in the Czech Republic

On October 29, 2021, Yandex announced the impending opening of an office in the Czech Republic. Its employees will work to adapt the company's products to international markets.

According to Forbes with reference to the press service of Yandex, the office in Prague will work until the end of 2021. It will be located in a coworking space in the city center near the embankment of the Vltava River. Yandex said that the workflow will be organized in a hybrid format. 20 jobs are provided for opening there.

By the end of October 2021, Yandex already has offices in, Kazakhstan,, Belarus, and Switzerland. USA China Israel Among Russian cities, the company's offices are located in,,,,, and To Moscow. In St. Petersburg Yekaterinburg Kazan these cities, Nizhny Novgorod Novosibirsk Rostov-on-Don the main development of the company's products is concentrated.

In Belarus, the Yandex office is developing projects such as Toloka and Yandex. Search, "" Yandex. Drive, "" Yandex. Mail, voice assistant "Alice," "Yandex. Browser, "" Yandex. Direct, "" Yandex. Kew "et al. In Almaty, work is underway on the Yandex.Cloud and Yandex.Plus projects, and in Astana - on Yandex.Plus.

The main work of the Yandex office in Tel Aviv is concentrated on unmanned vehicles and the Yandex.Lavka delivery service. In Uzbekistan, work is underway to improve Yandex.Maps. What kind of projects the employees of the office in Prague will be engaged in is not reported by the end of October 2021.

Thus, Yandex continues to develop in Europe. Earlier it was reported about the company's plans to launch testing of the car sharing service in the region in 2021. The company intended to start with 1000 electric vehicles in one of the cities of the European Union, but has not yet decided in which one. Yandex chose among cities with favorable conditions for electric vehicles, including between Madrid and Copenhagen, as well as among cities in France and Italy.^[11]

Opening an office in Vladivostok

On October 26, 2021, Yandex announced the opening of a new office for developers in Vladivostok. The company has not yet decided on the place (negotiations are underway with business centers), but it is already known that it is planned to rent at least 1.5 thousand square meters. m of office space.

More than 150 workplaces are planned in the new office. In addition to the developers, it will house employees of the Yandex commercial office in Vladivostok, who by the end of October 2021 work in the Fresh Plaza business center. The new office will be launched in 2022.

According to Elena Bunina, CEO of Yandex in Russia, the company's products are being developed not only in Moscow. Thus, the services "Flights" and "Poster" are completely created in Novosibirsk.

Vladivostok is a major scientific center, there are many universities that train good specialists. We have been cooperating with FEFU for a long time, and in its educational schedule there are courses created in Yandex, she stressed.

By the end of October 2021, Yandex has 20 offices in Russia, but only some of them have developers. The main teams are located in Moscow,,, St. Petersburg Yekaterinburg Novosibirsk,, Simferopol and Nizhny Novgorod. Toole The technology company has also opened its offices in eight other countries.

In September 2021, Yandex told about plans to open an office in the center of St. Petersburg. The key requirements for selecting an office are the presence of several providers and reservation of communication channels (operators' inputs to the building are located in different places), the possibility of arranging a comfortable climate in the office (temperature, humidity, lack of dust, air disinfection), the possibility of installing raised floors, as well as effective planning of the building, the presence of a large comfortable parking lot, areas for walking and meeting in the fresh air, a variety of food outlets in the district.^[12]

Rent 21 thousand square meters. m in Moscow Neva Towers

In early August 2021, it became known that Yandex closed a lease deal of 20,833 sq. m of the Neva Towers office complex in the Moscow City business center. The new office will employ about 1,500 of the company's employees.

The general director of Metrika Investments (owner of the facility) Anton Melnikov and partner of Cushman & Wakefield (acted as a consultant to the transaction) Natalya Nikitina told Vedomosti about this. The representative of Yandex confirmed the information to the newspaper, but refrained from informative comments, limiting himself only to the statement that "the company is growing and developing, so it is considering various options for its expansion."

Its participants did not disclose the details of the transaction. A source close to one of the parties to the transaction noted that Yandex will rent space at Neva Towers for at least five years. According to experts, the new office can cost the corporation at least 3.54-3.85 billion rubles during use.

The rental rate at the level of 36,000-37,000 rubles per sq. m per year would be fair, taking into account the total shortage of space in Moscow City, commented Elena Denisova, senior director, head of the CBRE office space department.

According to Konstantin Losyukov, regional sales director of the Knight Frank office real estate department, office space in Neva Towers was rented for the placement of a taxi service and some other Yandex divisions.

Experts interviewed by Vedomosti called Yandex's lease of space in Neva Towers the largest transaction in the office real estate market in 2021. Prior to that, the record belonged to Sovcombank, which shot 9049 square meters in the business center "1st Land Lane, 7/2" in the Presnensky district of Moscow.

The interlocutors found the choice of location logical: there are no more premises of this quality and in such a volume in Moscow City. The area is in maximum demand from large companies.^[13]

Rent a total of 10 thousand square meters. m in "Moscow City"

In May 2021, it became known about the largest deal on the Russian coworking market. Yandex rented another 5600 sq. m (1100 jobs) of space from the Capital Group's BusinessClub flexible office network in the Oko II multifunctional complex in the Moscow City business center.

Considering that since the end of December 2019, the company has already occupied more than 4200 square meters. m (483 jobs), the total area of ​ ​ its new office will be slightly less than 10,000 square meters. m, write "Vedomosti." A Yandex representative told the publication that additional space in Moscow City will be used to accommodate Yandex.Taxi and Yandex.Market employees.

Thanks to this deal, Yandex has become the largest tenant of coworking spaces in the country. Prior to that, Ozon was considered the record holder, which removes about 9 thousand square meters in various flexible offices, for example SOK and Workki.

According to the commercial director of the OF.ru, Mikhail Shneiderman, the rate in this project was declared at the level of 35,000 rubles, however, taking into account the discount for a large volume, Yandex could rent space at the rate of 27,000-30,000 rubles. per seat. Thus, an additional office will cost the company 356.4-396 million rubles. in year.

The expansion of office space in Yandex was explained by the active growth of the company. By the end of March 2021, it employed 12,991 people against 11,864 employees a year earlier. In addition to space in BusinessClub from Capital Group, Yandex also leases space in the classic Krasnaya Roza business centers on the street. Timura Frunze, Aurora Business Park near Paveletsky railway station, Lotte Plaza on Arbat and Oko in Moscow City, the newspaper notes.

Yandex intends to move in the future to a new headquarters on the site of the Korston Hotel (formerly Eaglet), built in the 1970s on Kosygin Street.^[14]

2020

MR Group will build Yandex headquarters at Vorobyovy Gory for tens of billions

On May 27, 2020, it became known that MR Group would build Yandex headquarters on the site of the Korston Hotel (formerly Eaglet) near Vorobyovy Gory. Read more here.

Yandex rented 18 thousand square meters. m in Moscow City for a new office

On January 14, 2020, it became known that Yandex rented 18 thousand square meters. m of office space in the Oko tower of the Moscow City business center. The deal has been closed, TASS reports the Russian News Agency, citing the company's press service.

Yandex rented space from Capital Group. The financial component of the agreement has not been disclosed.

At the end of December 2019, the Vedomosti newspaper wrote that Yandex plans to rent about 20 thousand square meters from Capital Group. m in the Oko tower. This deal could be the largest in the office market in 2019. The experts of the publication estimated the rental rate in the Oko tower at 30-33 thousand rubles per 1 sq. m per year.

Yandex remains one of the most active tenant companies in Moscow. By the beginning of 2020, the bulk of Yandex employees work in an office located near the Park Kultury metro station, in the Krasnaya Roza business center. The areas are rented from KR Properties, the total area of ​ ​ this headquarters is 55 thousand square meters. The company also has an office near the Paveletskaya metro station, in the Aurora business center it is an office of 30 thousand square meters.

In addition, Yandex.Market rented 3.9 thousand square meters. m in Workki coworking on Zubovsky Boulevard, as well as 15.8 thousand square meters. m in the Lotte shopping and business center on Novy Arbat to accommodate its headquarters.

Before the deal between Yandex and Capital Group in the Oko tower, from 35 thousand to 40 thousand square meters. km, another 4.5 thousand is the area of ​ ​ coworking, say Konstantin Losyukov, director of the office real estate department at Knight Frank, and Elena Denisova, senior director of the CBRE office space department.

According to Vedomosti, initially Yandex planned to rent 10-14 thousand square meters from Capital Group. m., but now we are talking about all the free space both in the complex itself and in the  new building BusinessClub.^[15]

2019

Yandex will build a campus in Skolkovo. There will be data centers, offices and a university

In mid-December 2019, the board of directors of the Skolkovo Foundation approved the provision of a land plot of about 20 hectares to Yandex for the construction of a campus on the territory of the innovation center. The Russian Internet company, among other things, will place a data center, laboratories, offices, a corporate university, school and preschool educational institutions there. It is planned to build the campus in 10-15 years.

Construction Yandex intends to start the facilities of the first stage in the near future, according to the website of the Innovation Center Development Fund on December 17, 2019. The company will also develop a general concept of the campus, determine the timing and procedure for transferring its divisions to Skolkovo.

By December 2019, Yandex is one of the largest tenants in Moscow. The company occupies about 55,000 square meters. m in the business center "Red Rose" and 30,000 square meters. m in the complex "Aurora." Another 15,800 square meters. m occupies the headquarters on Novy Arbat in the Lotte product center.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Skolkovo Foundation Viktor Vekselberg, commenting on cooperation with Yandex, called it a landmark for Innograd.

The [Skolkovo] project continues to develop successfully. This year was definitely successful in terms of putting into operation iconic objects on the territory of the innograd, "he said, speaking about the results of 2019.

The indicators have become significantly more ambitious than they were before, including in connection with the adoption of the Skolkovo law on extraterritoriality and the ability to work with a large number of startups and partners throughout the country, he said.

According to Dvorkovich, by the end of 2022 the number of project participants should exceed 3 thousand. A significant increase in participants will be due to the principle of extraterritoriality and will occur at the expense of the regions, he added.^[16]

Yandex has reduced the cost of real estate by 1.7 times to save on taxes

On November 14, 2019, it became known that Yandex through the court managed to reduce the cadastral value of its future headquarters by 1.7 times. Thus, the company will be able to significantly save on taxes.

According to RBC, citing a motivational decision of the Moscow City Court, published on November 7, 2019, the cadastral value of the building of the former Corston Hotel, on the site of which Yandex plans to build its new office, has been reduced from 5 to 3 billion rubles.

This means a decrease in taxes: the real estate tax rate for organizations in Moscow is set for 2019 at 1.6% of the cadastral value of the object. Thus, according to the old estimate, the company would have to pay almost 80 million rubles a year, and after the court decision - 32 million rubles less, the publication points out.

Yandex filed a lawsuit against the Department of City Property and the Management of Rosreestr in Moscow in June 2019. The company acquired the building of the Korston Hotel and a land plot on Kosygin Street for almost 10 billion rubles.

Yandex disputed the cadastral value of real estate, which was established as a result of the state cadastral valuation as of January 1, 2018. The cost set on January 1, 2018 is used as a basis for calculating tax from 2019 onwards, until Moscow revalues, explains Sergey Pivovarchik, managing partner of Consul Group. The court decision states that it is the basis for entering into the Unified State Register of Real Estate the relevant information about the change in cadastral value.

Earlier, a commission on disputes about cadastral value worked in Moscow, but in 2019 it was gone. Now, with all claims, the owners go directly to court, and the assessment itself is carried out by specially created budgetary institutions.^[17]

Yandex is threatened with an explosion of headquarters using drones

On November 7, 2019, it became known about the threats that Yandex receives from unknown attackers. They promise to blow up the company's headquarters and demand payment in cryptocurrency.

According to the city news agency Moscow"," citing a law enforcement source, on November 6, a representative of Yandex contacted the police and announced that he had received a letter from unknown persons by business mail.

It speaks of the intentions of some people to send improvised drones with loads of explosives to Yandex headquarters on Leo Tolstoy Street in Moscow and blow them up inside the building. 

The attackers noted that the consequences of the terrorist attack will affect the company's reputation and give rise to ideological followers "who will turn people's lives into chaos outside Yandex. Unknown people demanded five bitcoins and indicated the address to which the cryptocurrency needs to be transferred, the source said.

Yandex confirmed information about threatening letters and filing a statement with the police in this regard.

It was yesterday. As far as we know, this is a mass mailing that affected not only Yandex. We immediately transferred all the necessary information to law enforcement agencies, - told RIA Novosti in the press service of the Russian Internet company.

According to Ren TV, police officers examined the territory of the Yandex office, but did not find any explosive devices. Evacuation of people in the building was not carried out.

The TV channel reports that the ransomware also sent a letter to the head of the procurement department of the State Historical Museum demanding to list three bitcoins. Otherwise, the attackers promised that an attack would be made on the Church of St. Basil in the capital. The authors of the letter promised to use an improvised drone with 3 kg of explosives to attack one of the domes of the cathedral.^[18]

2018

Purchase of a land plot for $145 million for the construction of a new headquarters

On December 18, 2018, Yandex announced the purchase of a land plot in Moscow for the construction of a new headquarters. For $145 million, a plot of 4 hectares is purchased on Kosygin Street, 15, where the building of the former Orlenok Hotel is located, according to a press release from a Russian Internet company.

We are very glad that Yandex will have its own house almost in the center of Moscow, next door to one of the largest scientific and educational clusters in the capital. We are confident that this will help us continue to attract talented people, develop and scale the business, create new products and services for our users. Financially, we consider this purchase to be an effective use of capital and a reflection of a reasonable approach to managing operating expenses in the long term, "said Arkady Volozh, head of the Yandex group of companies.

After closing the transaction on the acquisition of the land plot, Yandex intends to develop a project for a new headquarters. Its budget and estimated implementation dates are planned to be published after agreeing on the parameters of the project in the prescribed manner, Yandex reported.

By December 18, 2018, about 6,500 employees work in Yandex's Moscow offices. The main part is at the headquarters in the Krasnaya Roza business district on Leo Tolstoy Street in Khamovniki, where Yandex rents about 61 thousand square meters of area. The company rents another 27 thousand square meters at the Aurora business center on Sadovnicheskaya Street in Zamoskvorechye. The lease agreements for both offices expire on December 31, 2021.

In September 2018, Vedomosti, citing sources, wrote about Yandex's plans to build its headquarters near the Luzhniki stadium.

Opening an office in Krasnoyarsk

On November 9, 2018, Yandex announced the opening of a commercial office in Krasnoyarsk. The office team, according to the company, will help local business representatives effectively use Yandex advertising tools to get the most return on advertising investments.

Employees of the office will work with clients, conduct training and actively participate in the life of the business community. This will help to better understand what tasks entrepreneurs of the Krasnoyarsk Territory face and how to solve them using online advertising.

"Each region has its own local specificity, so we prefer to work with people on the spot. In 2018, Yandex has already opened eight commercial offices and will open several more. First of all, we choose regions where business is actively developing and we can bring the greatest benefit. Krasnoyarsk Territory is one of these. There are strong local players and the number of new businesses is growing rapidly. " Natalia Kovaleva, Director of Sales for Small and Medium Businesses of Yandex

According to Yandex.Directory, in 2018 the number of commercial companies increased in the Krasnoyarsk Territory by 40%. According to this indicator, the region is among the ten fastest growing. As for online advertising, the largest growth is shown by the segments of the restaurant and hotel business, as well as cars. User interest in online purchases is also increasing: the number of such searches from a computer increased by 24%, and from mobile devices - by 64%.

As noted in Yandex, as of November 2018, the company has 15 commercial offices in: in Russia,,, To Moscow,, St. Petersburg,, Kazan,, Rostov-on-Don,, Nizhny Novgorod,,, and Yekaterinburg Novosibirsk. Krasnoyarsk Krasnodar Vladivostok Saratov To Samara Chelyabinsk To Ufa Perm

Opening an office in Chelyabinsk

On July 30, 2018 Yandex , it announced the opening of a commercial office in. According to Chelyabinsk information the company, the team will help local businesses effectively use different ways to promote Internet in and increase the return on investments in online advertising. To do this, office employees will advise entrepreneurs on advertising tools and actively participate in the life of the local business community: speak at conferences, hold seminars.

When deciding to open a commercial office in a particular city, we analyze the state of affairs in the local market. In the Chelyabinsk region, the online advertising market is growing rapidly, we see excellent prospects. This is especially true for some industries: the segment associated with automotive goods and services has grown one and a half times over the past year. Advertisers working in the field of medicine and, for example, tourism are very active. Natalya Kovaleva, Sales Director for Small and Medium Businesses of Yandex

It was also reported that the company is creating a network of commercial offices throughout Russia to communicate directly with customers. In 2018, in addition to Chelyabinsk, local teams began working in Vladivostok, Krasnodar, Samara and Saratov, and in total it is planned to open up to ten offices by the end of the year.

2017

Plan for the construction of a new headquarters in Moscow

Yandex is considering financing the construction of its new headquarters in Moscow. Kommersant writes about this with reference to sources in the real estate market in October 2017. While the Internet giant rents 54 thousand square meters. m in the business center "Red Rose," the contract expires in 2021. Also, the company in December 2016 announced the lease of 10 thousand square meters. m in BC "Aurora."

According to the publication, Yandex is negotiating the construction of an office building for its own needs with the developer O1 Properties Boris Mints. The search engine allegedly intends to buy the object after commissioning (the so-called built-to-suit scheme). They refrained from official comments in both structures. The representative of Yandex only explained that "the company is working on various options for placing employees."

In 2017, it was reported about the company's plans to buy out 80 thousand square meters in Krasnaya Roze. m of office space. However, the deal was abandoned already in the process of registration. Then Yandex did not exclude the move from the business center at all. If the Internet search engine intends to invest in a similar amount of space, investments will amount to at least 150 thousand rubles. for 1 sq. m, said Pavel Yakimchuk, head of the interior decoration department at CBRE. In total, this is 12 billion rubles^[19].

Visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the company's office

On September 21, 2017, the president Russia Vladimir Putin visited the Moscow office. " Yandex The visit was timed to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Yandex: on September 23, 2017, the company turns 20 years old. On this day in 1997 , the search engine of the same name was presented.^[20]

The President got acquainted with the company's developments. In particular, the head of state was told about the work of the Yandex.Search system, developments in the field of artificial intelligence, online services in the field of telemedicine, education, business and transport. 

Putin talked a little with the voice assistant "Alice." Asked if she was offended, the voice assistant said "O'kay, take into account." "How do you feel here?" - then the head of state asked. Alisa said that she was considering cats in Yandex: "There is nothing better than cats, I hope you are doing well too." As a result of the communication, Putin noted that "Alice" avoided the question of whether they offend her.

The voice assistant does not work on the principle of recognizing keywords, like the already created voice assistants, but analyzes large amounts of information before answering. The launch of Alice for mass use is scheduled for October 10, 2017.

Also, the president was shown, self-driving car developed. Yandex Putin watched the Prius hybrid car Toyota move and drive around the company's courtyard.

Yandex CEO in Russia Alexander Shulgin and company CFO Gregory Abovsky told Putin that the company employs about seven thousand people, the average age of employees is 30 years, most of them are graduates of leading Russian universities.

After Putin's visit, the evacuation of employees began at Yandex's office, which the company explained by the fire alarm. About 3 thousand people were removed from the building.

Kazakhstan Sales Office Opening Plan

The Yandex sales office will be opened in Almaty. The main tasks facing the Kazakhstan division are the deployment of the company's advertising products on the market and the support of customers and partners. No specific opening date has been announced.

2016: Agreement to open a development office in Innopolis

In June 2016, Yandex signed an agreement to open a development office in Tatarstan - in the high-tech city of Innopolis. This is the seventeenth office of the company in the world and the tenth development office.

At the first stage, a small team of front-end search developers will work in the new office. Yandex will open a number of vacancies in Innopolis. By the end of 2016, the company expects to hire several people, and in the future - even more. The office will deal not only with Yandex projects. The company's specialists will also conduct joint research with Innopolis University.

The office in Innopolis was the second for Yandex in Tatarstan. The company's commercial office is already operating in Kazan, whose employees help customers make their advertising campaigns more effective.

Although Yandex is headquartered in Moscow, projects are being worked on in different cities and countries. Some services are entirely developed in regional offices. For example, at this time:

• in Yekaterinburg, Yandex.Taxi, Poster and Schedules are completely made,
• in St. Petersburg - Yandex.Real Estate,
• and is home to a Novosibirsk large Music and Radio development team.

2012: Swiss Office and Development Centre

At the turn of 2011-2012. Yandex has two new divisions in Europe. Both are based in Switzerland.

In January 2012, the company opened a development center in Zurich. Company representative Vladimir Isaev told CNews that the team of this center now has seven people and is working on a number of technologies designed to improve Yandex's search services as a whole.

This unit does not have a local head - it is managed by Alexei Mazurov, head of the Yandex development department, and Ilya Segalovich, technical director of the company.

According to Isaev, the decision to open a development center in Switzerland is due to the fact that it was there that Yandex found a ready-made team of developers of a good level. "This is a common practice for Yandex: we start from the team, and not from the location," he says, noting that the team of the development center is international - there are Russians in it.

The second division was a sales office registered in Lucerne. He will promote the advertising products of the search engine in Europe in order to more effectively work with advertisers from European countries, demonstrating the capabilities of the products on the spot and helping them in solving marketing problems, the company explains.

Yandex offers contextual and media advertising on its services in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Turkey, as well as on sites included in the search engine's advertising network. The Yandex.Direct system interface for posting contextual announcements is available in Russian and English.

Yandex commercial director Alexei Tretyakov notes that in recent years, sales of Yandex to foreign clients have been actively growing. "Through sales marketing activities, we also plan to attract new customers. And we hope that opening an office in Europe will allow us to grow faster in this market, "he says.

The head of the sales office in Switzerland will be Bernard Luke, who from 2005 to July 2011 worked as the general director of the online store Ozon.ru. As previously reported, the decision to gradually change the general director was made due to the fact that the Luke family returned to permanent residence in Switzerland. Having left the post of head of the online store, Luke remained on the board of directors of the company.

It is worth noting that Yandex and Luke did not meet for the first time. In 2000-2002 there was a period when this Swiss was engaged in strategic planning and implementation of the marketing policy of the Yandex search engine^[21].

2011: Rent an office on Samokatnaya Street in Moscow for $175 million for 10 years

In August 2011, the Dutch company Yandex, which owns the Yandex Internet portal, published on the website of the American Securities Commission a copy of the office lease agreement in the Red Rose 1875 business center^[22] the^[22].

The contract was concluded in December 2008 and gives Yandex the right to rent 18 thousand square meters for a period of 10 years. m in the historical complex of buildings in the center of Moscow on Leo Tolstoy Street (the nearest metro is Park Kultury). Before the revolution, a garment factory was created here, in Soviet times called the "Red Rose."

In 2009, Yandex paid $17 million for office rent, also making a deposit of $7 million (prices in the contract are fixed in dollars, but all payments are made in rubles). Since 2010, the payment of the beginning is made once a quarter, and the rental price increases with each new settlement period. If for the first quarter of 2010 Yandex had to pay $3.2 million, then for the first quarter of 2011 - already $4 million. In 2018 (the last year of the contract), the amount of quarterly payments will increase to $5 million.

In just 10 years, Yandex will have to pay the lessor about $175 million. At the same time, as the company warns its investors, it may face a shortage of work space due to an increase in the number of employees and a shortage of office real estate in the center of Moscow. If at the end of 2008 Yandex employed 1.6 thousand people, then in the spring of 2011 - already 2.7 thousand people.

In this regard, in April 2011, Yandex agreed to lease another 11 thousand square meters for seven years. m in the same office center "Red Rose 1875" (the initial agreement between the parties provided Yandex with the preemptive right to buy out free space in the business center). For additional space for the entire lease period, the company will pay another 2.1 billion rubles. (about $70 million), and the amount of payments will also grow from year to year.

Thus, under the first contract, rental rates for Yandex this year amount to $0.9 thousand per sq. m., by 2018 they will increase to $1.1 thousand per sq. m. Under the second agreement, Yandex will pay $1.4 thousand per sq. m. This is much more expensive than, for example, pays "Kaspersky Kaspersky)," which recently rented 30 thousand square meters. m. In the business center "Olympia Plaza." The standard rental price in this complex is $700 per sq. m., however, "Olympia Plaza" is located on the outskirts of Moscow (the nearest metro is the Water Stadium ").

For early termination of the first (ten-year) contract in the period until 2014, Yandex will have to pay a fine of $5 million. The parties also have the right to achieve a revision of the terms of this contract, based on the estimates of one of the three real estate agencies: Jones Lang La Salle, Colliers International and Knight Frank. If realtors estimate the cost of rent at more than $1.05 thousand per sq. m., then the rental price will be increased if below $0.705 thousand per sq. m. - lowered (in the case of other estimates, the price will remain unchanged).

Under the terms of the lease agreement, Yandex is obliged at its own expense to insure the premises it uses in the amount of $1 million for each possible type of damage. The owners of the business center have the right to access the premises used by Yandex for their demonstration to creditors, appraisers and, if there are 6 months left before the end of the lease agreement, potential tenants. The lessor pledged to provide parking spaces for cars of Yandex employees in the amount of no more than 350 (including 190 cars on the surface).

Yandex, according to the agreement, undertakes to coordinate with the lessor the placement of external materials inside the business center and the sublease of premises. The contract stipulates an exhaustive list of reasons why the owners of the business center may refuse Yandex to sublet its premises. This can happen if the new tenant is a competitor to Red Rose 1875, is engaged in illegal activities or deception of consumers, works in the field of religion, charity, gambling, holding mass entertainment events, security activities or trading in ammunition. The subleader must also have an area of ​ ​ at least 4 square meters. m. For each employee.

Yandex's previous attempt to rent a large office in the center of Moscow ended unsuccessfully, but the company was able to get out of this story with a profit. In 2007, Yandex agreed to lease 29 thousand square meters. m. In the Legion II business center under construction on Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street (Tretyakovskaya metro). The contract was concluded on preliminary terms. The parties could not sign the final agreement, in connection with which the lessor returned the advance to Yandex and paid a fine of 120 million rubles.

Yandex office on Samokatnaya Street in Moscow^[23].

2008: Yandex Labs U.S. Office

In June 2008, Yandex opened Yandex Labs in California, headed by the former head of Yahoo ! Vish Mahijani. The American office was opened with the aim of developing search technologies and improving search throughout the world Internet.

2007: Offices opened in Yekaterinburg and Kyiv

In 2007 - an office was opened in Yekaterinburg. In 2007, an office in Kyiv also appeared.

2006: First Remote Development Office in St. Petersburg

In 2006, Yandex opened its first remote development office - in St. Petersburg.

2005: Office in Ukraine in Odessa

In 2005, Yandex went beyond Russia, opening a representative office in Ukraine in the city of Odessa. The task of the Ukrainian office was and is to create services specifically for the Ukrainian audience and sell advertising in the country.

See also:

• Rostelecom Offices
• Microsoft Office
• Google's Zurich office
• Steve Ballmer's office
• Pixar Office
• Digg Office
• ISpaceship (Apple office)

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