How it started
History
On November 30, 2000, Yandex.Market was launched entitled "Yandex.Tovary" (literally "Yandex.Products") by employees of Yandex Dmitriy Zavalishin, Evgeniya Zavalishina and Ilya Polozhintsev. Therefore, a month prior, Yandex launched an online consulting service Yandex.Guru that helped the user to choose a product using leading questions. Yandex.Tovary, Yandex.Guru and online service Podberi.ru where all combined into Yandex.Market in 2002.
In June 2013, Yandex.Market opened a website section with the list of recommended online shops. The shop can get a "recommended" status after the conclusion of the contract with Yandex.Market. In 2015 Yandex.Market launched delivery service Yandex.Delivery (Russian: Яндекс.Доставка).
In 2016, Yandex.Market has become a separate company.
In 2018, Yandex.Market and Sberbank launched a joint online marketplace named «Beru». it was closed and included into Yandex.Market in 2020.
From Wikipedia’s article on Yandex Market, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2