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With many cities people associate very specific things. Tula is the samovar and gingerbread, Saint-Petersburg palaces and bridges, Sochi — the sea, the beach and the Olympics, Volgograd — Mamayev Kurgan and the Motherland. this Association is seen in search queries. We found that asking about the 50 largest Russian cities, and prepared a test — try to guess the city according to that often cited in the search next to its name. the Answers to the test questions and other details about what you are looking for in connection with one or other of the big cities — in our study, "the Best views of this city."

On Yandex.Maps — major update. We published a panorama of the cities of the Far East: photographed Vladivostok, Birobidzhan, Blagoveshchensk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and first photographed Magadan, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Yakutsk. the Shooting took place in the summer, in July and August. During the trip panoramabild did about 135 thousand photos. They made about 33 thousand panoramas — here we collected the most beautiful. Tip: to open the panorama, click on image. Magadan with Steep hills Boat on the Amur river, Blagoveshchensk Opened in 2016 Primorsky Oceanarium, Vladivostok the Area under construction of the highway Vladivostok – Nakhodka – Vostochny port memorial "Mask of sorrow" in Magadan (the sculptor Ernst...

Yandex.Navigator comes to the rescue when you need to get in an unfamiliar place. In everyday travel, for example from work to home, route guidance is often not required — the driver already knows where to go. But even if the road is studied far and wide, it is still possible surprises: a minor accident at the intersection, the laying of asphalt in the right lane. In General, it is necessary to be alert. Yandex is known by almost 20 thousand cameras of different types. It's like the Cams that control speed and those who follow the band. On the location of the cameras, we learn from different sources. For example, they are added to the card by the drivers themselves and the people's cartographers. We taught Navigator signal about events on the road, even...

Mushrooms are not only looking at the forest, but also in Yandex. People ask how to look like white and brown, are interested in how to distinguish edible mushroom from inedible searching for recipes and canned food. Analysts of Yandex, studied the requests from the mushroom and has prepared a study — it is possible to know when begins and ends with the mushroom season in different regions of Russia. the Most popular mushrooms — mushrooms They devoted every tenth request about mushrooms. In the second place the chanterelles and the mushrooms. In some regions, the list of the most popular mushrooms is different. In Omsk oblast and Primorsky Krai in the top 10 are obabkov, Komi and Adygea harvested Dubovik, and in the Vologda region and Karelia — morels. the...

Yandex launched the "Atlas of the universities". This service for students and their parents, which contains information about the passing score in Russian universities for several years. The Atlas will help future applicants to choose a school and solve other tasks associated with the receipt. For example: to Define a set of exams All high school graduates pass the exam on the two required exams: Russian language and mathematics. The other test you guys choose for yourself. The sooner future applicants determine the items that will be required for admission to the University, the more time they have to prepare. let's Say you want to become a software developer and decided to enroll in software engineering. The Atlas will tell you which colleges have this...

Analysts Yandex has prepared a new study according to Yandex Maps — about the streets of Russia. They studied more than 560 thousand of the 43 streets in thousands of cities and find out what titles are rare and which often more often than Leo Tolstoy. And from studies we can learn that: Average Russian city consists of 190 streets This is the number you get when you divide the total number of streets in the cities the number of cities. But in General the scatter is very large, from four streets in the city Innopolis in Tatarstan to 3855 streets in Moscow. the longest street is located in Perm This street is the Eastern Bypass with a length of 22.6 kilometers. In second place — the Warsaw highway in Moscow, it is shorter, only about 100 meters. Third place...

Pets are equal members of the family. Is that not talking and therefore can't complain when they are bad. But to understand what is happening with the beast, sometimes difficult. Cat the whole day sitting in the corner — he was sick or something was offended? The dog looks as usual, but he eats very little — is this normal? Yandex.Health App for iOS and Android where you can obtain the online consultation from a therapist, pediatrician, and gynecologist, make an appointment at the clinic and order drugs over the Internet. In this situation better as quickly as possible to consult a veterinarian. But the trip to the clinic means that we need to find the time to find the cat, who hid at the sight of carry, find transportation, and then another, and wait in...

Red letter "I", the search field in the form of yellow arrows and mustache Arkady Volozh — iconic images for Yandex. The letter was always. Volozh moustache shaved off after the Yandex IPO, and then just grew it back. The yellow arrow has its own history — on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her company says Konstantin Gorsky, who worked on the Yandex design from 2010 to 2016. Konstantin Gorsky, , he headed the design Department at Yandex, currently in charge of the designers in the company Intercom and leads to the telegram-channel "Design and productivity" 20 years, Yandex In the last two decades technology has changed the world more than ever — and Yandex has taken a direct part in this. on 23 September 1997 at the exhibition Softool public for the...

Yandex has developed a platform for multimedia systems of cars — Yandex.Cars. It is somewhat favorite motorists services from a single interface and voice control. The platform is embedded in the machine during production. The first cars with Yandex.The car will go on sale in October. once nearly every car had a paper road Atlas, and now some drivers don't even know what he looks like. To get directions, you can run the application. Smartphones help to solve other problems, which people face while driving: to view the schedule of sessions in the cinema on the way, find a flower shop or just relax to your favorite music. But switching from one application to another is distracting from the main thing — driving. It is necessary to reach the phone and search...

Yandex.The translator started to use hybrid translation system. The statistical translator that we use for a long time, added translation technology based on neural network. Now the translation is done both models, and then the algorithm based on the method of machine learning CatBoost compares results and offers the best. the translation of the neural network does not split the texts into separate words and phrases — it handles whole sentences. Due to this, the text is easy to read: sometimes even you may think that it was written by a man. Statistical translator can not do that, but well remembers and brings rare and complex expressions. Working together, the two systems compensate drawbacks of each other. the Statistical translation There are many ways...