3DNews

Materials "3DNews - Daily Digital Digest" are also published in English and Estonian.

News feeds are 3DNews broadcast via the RSS 2.0 protocol to many sites on the worldwide network, including Yandex.News, FeedBurner, Informotor, StopGame, Twitter microblogs, LiveJournal, Friendfeed, etc.

Electronic media "3DNyus" has a certificate of registration of the mass media El No. FS 77-22224 dated November 01, 2005.

For April 2020, the 3DNews team also manages the publication Overclockers.ru.

Owners

As of November 2006, the publication had three owners:

• 42% - Andrei Vyacheslavovich Kuzin,
• 16% - Alexandra Ordzhonikidze and
• 42% Klimenko German Sergeevich^[1]

In January 2016, Klimenko was appointed adviser to the President of Russia on the Internet economy. He said that he plans to sell his share of this asset to the project manager Alexandra Ordzhonikidze.

- There is such an agreement, and it appeared as soon as Herman agreed to the president's proposal. They agreed on the price, - says Ordzhonikidze. - The controlling share will not change anything: in 2003 I agreed to be the managing director only on the condition that I single-handedly manage, and both senior partners have only the right of an advisory vote^[2]

Meanwhile, the shares of owners did not change and on November 12, 2018 remained the same.

As of July 2025, Klimenko and Kuzin own 40% of the company, editor-in-chief Denis Nivnikov - 20%.

Performance indicators

The average daily site traffic as of January 2016 is approximately 160 thousand, according to Liveinternet. At Finam at that time, the company was estimated at 320 million rubles^[2].

Revenue 3DNews:

• 2013 - 48.52 million rubles
• 2014 - 37.35 million rubles
• 2015 - 26.93 million rubles
• 2016 - 31.77 million rubles
• 2017 - 32.3 million rubles
• 2018 - 50.4 million rubles
• 2019 - 67.4 million rubles
• 2020 - 91.42 million rubles
• 2021 - 109.56 million rubles
• 2022 - 74.83 million rubles
• 2023 - 87.60 million rubles
• 2024 - 114.05 million rubles

Net income/loss:

• 2013: RUB 13.5 mln
• 2014:154 thousand rubles
• 2015: -6.84 mln RUB (loss)
• 2016: 2.58 million rubles
• 2017: -3.0 million (loss)
• 2018: 3.4 million rubles
• 2019:16 million rubles
• 2020: 32.38 million rubles
• 2021: 34.15 million rubles
• 2022: 0.084 million rubles
• 2023: RUB 23.21 mln
• 2024: 19.20 million rubles

History

2017: Loss of Ivy Bank licence

In May 2017, the Central Bank of Russia revoked the license for banking operations from the Moscow credit institution Ivy Bank (formerly Quota Bank), part of whose shares were owned at that time by German Klimenko, presidential adviser on Internet development programs, who directly managed 3.82% of Ivy Bank shares and controlled another 6.19% together with partners through 3DNEWS LLC.

2011: Audience - 160 thousand people per day

As of September 2011, the publication declared the following indicators:

• More than 160,000 people visit the 3DNews every day.
• More than 2.7 million visitors view more than 15.5 million pages each month.
• The number of subscribers reading daily mailings on Subscribe.ru and Maillist.ru is more than 90,000, and this figure is constantly growing.

More than 70 authors from different countries of the world and regions of Russia and the CIS cooperate with the publication. In addition to publications on the network, the authors of the 3DNews are also authors of IT-related training and analytical books.

Publication team for July 2011

2003: Kuzin sells 50% in the company to German Klimenko. Both give 8% of Ordzhonikidze

In 2003, German Klimenko bought 50% of the 3dnews.ru website (online publication on computer technology, legal entity - 3DNYUS LLC) from its sole owner Andrei Kuzin. The new co-owner proposed that each of the two owners would give 8% to Alexandra Ordzhonikidze on the condition that she remain the project manager.

1997: Andrei Kuzin launches the site

It was founded by Andrei Vyacheslavovich Kuzin on July 17, 1997. The project without attracting third-party investments quickly became a self-sufficient, successfully developing Internet company and occupied its unique niche in the Runet information space.

Awards

For eight years, the 3DNews project held a leading position in the Iron section of the Rambler Top100 rating and was one of the top twenty Russian resources in the Mail.Ru rating.

In 2008, 3DNews became a nominee for the Runet Prize competition in the Technology and Innovation category. 3DNews is the only project that became a seven-time winner in the nomination "Hard 'n ' soft site of the year" for voting on the "Russian Online TOR" (ROTOP/ROTOP +).

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