We are going to keep the international theme going for this installment of "By the Numbers." This time we'll take a look at stats from a country that is very active on social media and has a number of its own social networks used by a majority of its citizenry the Russian Federation.

Much like in China, it is pretty clear that social giants like Facebook and Twitter have a lot of work to do in Russia to catch up to their domestic social networks.

Here are some interesting stats and facts pertaining to Russian social network including Yandex (basically Russian Google), VKontakte (basically Russian Facebook) and a few others...

Russian Social Network Stats

• Number of Yandex users: 95 million

• Number monthly visitors to Yandex.ru: 45 million

• Yandex percentage of Russian search market: 61.7%

• Number of Yandex advertisers: 239,000

• Average monthly users for Yandeks.Muzyka (music streaming service): 13 million

• Number of tracks on Yandeks Muzyka: 10 million

• Number of desktop users of Yandex Maps: 16.5 million

• Number of mobile users of Yandex Maps: 6.6 million

• Number of Yandex.Fotki (photo) users: 10 million

• Number of weekly Yandex Mail users: 6 million

• Number of apps in Yandex.Store (Android app store): 50,000

• Number of Yandex.Money (electronic payments) Accounts: 13 million

• Number of Yandex employees: 4,298

• Date of Yandex.ru launch: September 23, 1997

• Number of active VKontakte (VK.com, Russian Facebook) users: 100 million 

• VKontakte (VK.com) average daily users: 46 million

• VKontakte (VK.com) active monthly Russian users: 46.8 million

• Date of VKontakte (VK.com) launch: October 10, 2006

• Number of Mail.ru monthly users: 52.4 million

• Number of Odnoklassniki users: 65.3 million

• Number of Russian Facebook users: 13.1 million

• Number of Russian Twitter users: 4.2 million

• Number of LiveJournal Russian users: 5.7 million

• Number of Russian YouTube visitors: 25 million

• Number of Russian Google users: 45.8 million

Please note that some of these numbers are easier to find than others. A few of these stats come from the networks' own reports, but some are based on news reports and not official company tallies. Basically, this is the best I can find and I don’t guarantee anything to be 100% accurate.

Image credit: Kyle Taylor via flickr

Last updated: July 1, 2020