Vk.com Biography & Web Analysis

VK (original name VKontakte; Russian: Вконта́кте, which means InContact) is a Russian online social media and social networking service located in Saint Petersburg. VK is available in multiple languages yet it is prevalently used by Russian-speakers. VK allows users to message each other privately or publicly; create groups, public pages and events; share and tag pictures, audio/video; and play browser based games. 

VKontakte was incorporated on 19 January 2007 as a Russian limited liability organization. Founder (Pavel Durov) officially launched VKontakte for beta testing in September 2006, shortly after his graduation from St Petersburg State University. The domain name vkontakte.ru was registered the following month. User registration was at first restricted within the university circles exclusively by invitation, but yet the site actually developed rapidly. 

In February 2007 the site arrived at a user base of more than 100,000 and was recognized as the second largest company in Russia's nascent social network market. In the same month, the site was subjected to a serious (DDoS) attack, which briefly log it offline. The user base later arrived at 1 million in July 2007, and 10 million in April 2008. In December 2008 VK overtook his rival Odnoklassniki to become Russia's most popular social networking service. 

Around August 2018, VK had at least 500 million accounts. It is presently the most popular site in Russia. VK authomatically becomes the 14th most visited site in the world as indicated by SimilarWeb.