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Also known as vk.com, VKontakte
social networking service from Russia
VK is a social networking service from Russia where users can connect with friends, share content, and join communities, similar to Facebook. It matters because it's one of the largest social networks in Eastern Europe and Russia, making it an important platform for how people in that region communicate and share information online.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- online community
- Country
- Russia
- Founded by
- Pavel Durov
- Headquarters
- Saint Petersburg
- Owned by
- Lev Leviev
- Author
- Pavel Durov
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Creator
- Pavel Durov
- Location
- Saint Petersburg
- Developer
- Pavel Durov
- Official website
- vk.com
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- Commons category
- Vkontakte
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/vk
- topic's main category
- Category:Vkontakte
- inception
- 2006-10-10
- language of work or name
- English language
- product or material produced
- social networking service
- Alexa rank
- 14
- topic has template
- Template:VK user
- visitors per year
- 100000000
- social media followers
- 140000
- search formatter URL
- vk.com/search?c%5Bq%5D=$1
- Similarweb ranking
- 22
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Encyclopedic overview
VK (short for its original name VKontakte; Russian: ВКонтакте, lit. 'InContact') is a Russian online social media and social networking service based in Saint Petersburg. VK is available in multiple languages but it is predominantly used by Russian speakers. VK users can message each other publicly or privately, edit messages, create groups, public pages, and events; share and tag images, audio, and video; and play browser-based games.
As of August 2018, VK had at least 500 million accounts. As of November 2022, it was the sixth most popular website in Russia. The network was also popular in Ukraine until it was banned by the Verkhovna Rada in 2017.
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