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2024: Appointment as CEO of Yandex.Drive
In mid-July 2024, the Yandex.Carshering general director changed in the company "" (legal entity of the Yandex.Drive service). He was appointed Kirill Lunev, who replaced Sergei Kovalev. The latter headed the car-sharing direction Yandex"" from March 2024.
The fact that Kirill Lunev has been the general director of Yandex.Carshering LLC since July 16, 2024 is evidenced by the data of the Kontur. Focus service, which TAdviser got acquainted with. The press service of the company confirmed to Interfax the change of CEO. They clarified that Kirill Lunev has been working at Yandex for ten years, five of which are in the Drive team, where he led the efficiency and machine learning group, and then the analytics service. At the same time, the company did not specify whether Sergei Kovalev left it.
The press service of Yandex.Drive said that despite the change of CEO, the company will continue to develop the business area, including the B2C segment, as well as focus on scaling the service and long-term car rental. By July 2024, Yandex Drive is available in Moscow and the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Sochi and Kazan. The service offers 16 thousand cars for rent for minutes, hours, days and "a dozen models for a very long lease from a month, including hundreds of new Chery Tiggo crossovers."[1]