VKontakte: Russia’s Version of Social Networking

VKontakte (also known as VK) is a Russian social network service provider. VKontakte literally means “in touch.” Although primarily available for the Russians, VKontakte is also available in other Russian-speaking social networkers such as in Israel, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

Like many popular social networks of today, VKontakte has the functions and features that are needed for social networking – public and private messaging, sharing and tagging images, videos and audios, creating groups, events posting and notices, and browser-based gaming.

By the end of January 2014, VKontakte has more than 239 million user accounts, making it the second largest social network in Europe. Alexa has listed VKontakte in the 23rd place in its global Top 500 sites list. Alexa also reported that VKontakte is Russia’s second most visited site. In another report, eBizMBA Rank listed VKontakte as the world’s eighth most popular social networking site. On the average, VKontakte has registered 55 million users every day.