NashStore

2022

Hosting the Smart Engines Demo Application

Smart Engines on July 1, 2022 published its demo mobile application for Android devices in RuStore and NashStore stores. Read more here.

More than 1 million users have registered

In mid-June 2022, more than 1 million users from Russia registered in the NashStore, who downloaded more than 3.5 million applications. As of June 22, 2022, more than 2 thousand mobile applications were added to the NashStore. Each user can find services for work, recreation or entertainment in the NashStore.

More than 1 million people registered

{{quote 'Our immediate plans are to improve the quality of current services, as well as launch new features. Convenient application search tools for the user, and tools for the developer to develop, promote and monetize applications. We carefully examine all initiatives and proposals that are received by NashStore. We are highly responsible for data security, application security and infrastructure security, since the opening we have managed to repel more than 4.5 thousand attacks, "said Arseny Shcheltsin, ingenious director of Digital Platforms }} Federal and regional executive bodies add their applications to the NashStore, including,,, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY Roskomnadzor FTS MPSC various regions of Russia and others. Many games are loaded into the catalog, both from private developers and from large publishers, for example, HeroCraft, AIGRIND, 505 Games and others.

Rating of 10 active regions of Russia:

• Moscow and Moscow region - 28%
• Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast - 12%
• Krasnodar Territory - 5%
• Sverdlovsk region - 4%
• Nizhny Novgorod region - 4%
• Chelyabinsk region - 4%
• Republic of Tatarstan - 3%
• Rostov region - 2%

Rating of 10 downloaded applications:

• 2GIS - 203,400
• VTB-Online - 156,200
• Russian Post - 108,400
• Rutube - 90 600
• Alfa-Bank - 88,400
• FL taxes - 59,400
• Eapteka - 48,900
• SberMarket - 43,100
• AIMP - 42 200
• We look, Russia - 36,700^[1]

Adding the Работа.ру Application

The mobile application of the service for job search and Работа.ру employees appeared in the Russian application stores RuStore and NashStore. The company announced this on May 27, 2022. Read more here.

Official launch of the NashStore app store

On May 16, 2022, the launch of the Russian app store for devices running Android OS - NashStore took place. By this time, more than 1,000 programs are available in the catalog, including Stoloto, Банки.ру, Alfa-Bank, Rutube, Wink online cinema, PSB-Business, SberMarket, Sovcombank, Cetelem Bank, Gloria Jeans, etc.

To use the store, you need to create an account. This can be done either in the application, or you can register in advance on the store's website and use the created login and password to go to the NashStore.

Russian analogue of Google Play launched

The work of NashStore on the first day was complicated by a massive hacker attack. On May 16, 2022, the developers stated the following:

Now access to the site and downloading the store may not work stably. Our specialists are doing everything possible to cope with this problem.

It is noted that by May 16, 2022, a payment system for digital goods is not yet available in the NashStore, it will appear in the near future. The marketplace was developed by ANO "Digital Platforms," the organization also launched registration in an alternative store of applications for foreign developers from Asia, Europe and America.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin instructed Ministry of Digital Science until June 1, 2022 to ensure the creation of a domestic store of applications for mobile devices. As the chairman explained, this is Governments of the Russian Federation necessary, since they App Store Google Play can restrict Russian users from downloading applications, and appealed to Russian developers to create a domestic ecosystem. Due to the departure of payment systems from Russia Visa Mastercard , Russians have lost the ability to buy games and applications, pay for subscriptions and conduct transactions on Google Play. ANO "^[2][3]

Creating an Android app store

At the end of March 2022, it became known about the creation of a Russian application store for Android called NashStore. It's a development. ANO "Digital Platforms"

According to the project director of this organization, NashStore was created in response to sanctions from Western countries, which made it "impossible to normally use Google Play to buy and pay for applications." In this online catalog, you can download and update applications, as well as pay for subscriptions.

An Android app store is being created in Russia

By the end of March 2022, more than 700 companies are cooperating in the creation of an application store with the Digital Platforms ANO. It is also specified that the developers are working on various methods of payment for applications in the NashStore, compatible with Russian bank cards "Mir."

The launch of the NashStore app store is scheduled for May 9, 2022. You can apply for entry into the app store through NashStore.ru.

During the period of total manipulation of important social processes of Russian citizens, we see it quite logical to dilute the dominant and monopoly position of our own operating systems application stores, primarily Android, "says Arseny Shcheltsin, General Director of ANO Digital Platforms. - This practice has already been implemented with Huawei's AppGallery.

According to Shcheltsin, by March 2022, Russia has the necessary regulatory practice - preinstalling applications on new smartphones and the ability to choose applications from the list. This is an excellent alternative for the near future, and possibly the only option, if Google leaves Russia, he stressed.

We are forming an expert council and an expanded pool of mobile application developers for high-quality registry preparation, - said the head of the ANO "Digital Platforms."[4]

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