# Yandex

> Yandex is a Moscow-headquartered technology group whose search engine became the foundation for an unusually broad operating system for everyday life: advertising, maps, ride-hailing, food and grocery delivery, ecommerce, entertainment, cloud infrastructure, financial services, smart devices and AI. Its advantage is not any single app but the way locally trained machine learning, logistics, payments and recommendations reinforce one another across more than 100 services.

- **Founded:** 2000
- **Headquarters:** Moscow, Russia
- **Founders:** Arkady Volozh (Co-founder and founding CEO), Ilya Segalovich (Co-founder and founding CTO)
- **Team size:** 31,594 full-time employees and 92,060 total employees as of June 30, 2026.
- **Products:** Yandex Search and Neuro, Yandex Direct and Metrica, Yandex Maps and Navigator, Yandex Music and Kinopoisk, Yandex Go
- **Notable:** Launched Yandex Search in 1997 with ranking and Russian-language morphology support., Reached self-sufficiency in 2002, earlier than the company had planned., Listed on Nasdaq in 2011 under YNDX; the restructured Russian parent began trading on Moscow Exchange as YDEX in 2024.

## Products & services

- **Yandex Search and Neuro** — Locally relevant web search combined with generative AI answers and source discovery.
- **Yandex Direct and Metrica** — Performance advertising, audience targeting and campaign and web analytics tools.
- **Yandex Maps and Navigator** — Place discovery, live transport, traffic-aware routing and turn-by-turn navigation.
- **Yandex Music and Kinopoisk** — Music and video entertainment services, bundled through Yandex Plus.
- **Yandex Go** — A city-services app covering ride-hailing and other mobility and delivery use cases.
- **Yandex Market** — An ecommerce marketplace and product-discovery platform connecting shoppers and merchants.
- **Yandex Eats and Lavka** — Restaurant meal delivery and rapid grocery and household-goods delivery.
- **Alice AI** — A conversational assistant and generative AI interface used across search, devices and services.
- **Yandex Cloud and Yandex 360** — Cloud infrastructure, AI APIs, data platforms and workplace collaboration tools for businesses.
- **Yandex Autonomous Tech** — Autonomous driving software, trucks and delivery robots in commercial operation in Russian cities.
- **Yandex Station and smart devices** — Smart speakers, televisions and connected-home devices built around Alice.
- **Yandex Financial Services** — Consumer and merchant financial products integrated into the wider ecosystem.

## Achievements

- Launched Yandex Search in 1997 with ranking and Russian-language morphology support.
- Reached self-sufficiency in 2002, earlier than the company had planned.
- Listed on Nasdaq in 2011 under YNDX; the restructured Russian parent began trading on Moscow Exchange as YDEX in 2024.
- Held 66.4% of Russian search traffic in the fourth quarter of 2024 according to Yandex Radar.
- Built an ecosystem of more than 100 consumer and business services.
- Reported RUB 1.4411 trillion in 2025 revenue, up 32% year over year.
- Reported 95 million monthly Yandex Maps users in May 2026.
- Open-sourced major internal technologies including YDB, YTsaurus, userver and YaFSDP.
- Trained more than 25,000 technology professionals through its programs in 2024.
- Operates autonomous trucks and delivery robots commercially in multiple Russian cities.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Reported Q2 revenue of RUB 386.3 billion, up 16% year over year, and first-half revenue of RUB 759.0 billion.
- **2026-07** — Presented AI research at ICML 2026 focused on faster model training and more efficient compute.
- **2026-06** — Open-sourced YaFF, a serialization library designed to reduce CPU use in high-load applications.
- **2026-06** — Launched Yandex Drops, its first wearable AI device powered by Alice AI.
- **2026-06** — Completed the RUB 35 billion sale of Auto.ru to T-Auto.
- **2026-05** — Added AI-generated landmark-based driving prompts to Maps and Navigator, covering more than 10,000 landmarks.
- **2026-04** — Released userver 3.0 with more than 2,500 improvements to the open-source high-load C++ framework.
- **2026-02** — Reported full-year 2025 revenue of RUB 1.4411 trillion, up 32%, and adjusted EBITDA of RUB 280.8 billion.

## Links

- Website: https://yandex.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/yandex
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/yandexcom
- GitHub: https://github.com/yandex
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiz4Imv4-fHWPF5fl56kvEQ

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Last updated: 2026-08-15