Urban Kirill

Urban Kirill

Biography

He graduated from the Russian University of Peoples' Friendship in the areas of Journalism and Media Management, as well as the Higher School of Economics with a degree in Digital Product Manager.

Since 2001, he worked at the Kommersant publishing house: he was a news journalist and editor, was engaged in reference and analytical content, built a correspondent network and work with information from foreign media.

Since 2016, he managed the digital platforms of Kommersant at the same time as an editor and product director.

2024: Editor-in-chief of "Rambler"

Kirill Urban joined the team of the portal Rambler"." The company announced this on October 8, 2024.

He led a direction that will focus on production distributions content and to solve everyday tasks of users.

Since October 2024, Kirill Urban has been the chief editor of the thematic verticals of the Rambler portal (part of the Rambler & Co media holding). He focused on this position on the quality of the site's content, a new level of user interaction and the development of mechanics with AI application. The updated functionality of the portal is aimed at helping readers make important life and household decisions - from careers and personal finance to entertainment and home comfort.

The audience will soon see a completely different LLM portal "Rambler," it will be about real sincere help to a person in any life situation - from a simple request for news and current events to useful content for all occasions. It is especially valuable for me that a specialist of such a level as Kirill will become the ideologist of this concept, a productologist and the professional who will make high-quality content for people. said Anna Ivanova, director of content and technology at Rambler & Co, executive director of the Rambler portal.

I am glad to join the Rambler portal team. There is a lot of work ahead to make the portal even more convenient and useful for our users, noted Kirill Urban, editor-in-chief of the thematic verticals of the Rambler portal.