Petersburg buys Russian servers for 610 million rubles

In January 2026, deliveries of high-performance Russian GPU servers for government agencies took place in St. Petersburg. The Department of Information Technology and Communications signed a contract for 610 million rubles with Er Line for the purchase of such equipment.

According to the documentation, until mid-March 2026, computing equipment will be supplied for the city monitoring center and the St. Petersburg Information and Analytical Center. The basis of the purchase is GPU-servers Yadro G4208P G3, designed for tasks. artificial intelligence This equipment is capable of training neural networks and launching large AI models such as DeepSeek-R1 685B.

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The supplied equipment is included in the register of Russian industrial products. The Yadro G4208P G3 server was added to the registry on September 5, 2025. The manufacturer claims that this equipment allows you to deploy large models of open source neural networks within the organization's infrastructure.

Metamentor Development Director Mikhail Krupnik noted that, despite the Russian assembly, key server components, including central and GPUs, are of foreign origin. At the same time, the cost of equipment corresponds to market prices. According to the expert, these purchases indicate the creation of powerful computing hubs in Russia.

In parallel, Russian companies are developing their own processors for AI tasks. General Director of Baikal Electronics Andrei Evdokimov in July 2025 announced the formation of a special unit in the company for this purpose. However, the timing of the launch of products on the market was not disclosed. As reported by Kommersant, in 2026 Baikal Electronics plans to supply more than 100 thousand processors of previous generations - Baikal-M and Baikal-L.^[1]

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