Mr Curriculum

Here's a look at the Russian business articles I created on the Wikipedia. There were a dozen other Russian business articles on the Wikipedia when I started my work, most of them about famous companies, most of them poorly written. I stayed in close touch with the Russian wikicommunity for a year, while I wrote articles, and I can safely say that with my daily attention to the new Russian articles page and the Category:Companies of Russia (and the Ukraine and Belarus) that just one single article about a Russian company was written by someone other than me during this time. I learned some Cyrillic and filled out the English half of the RTS Top 50, as well as paying attention to the MICE (Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange) lists.

Since that time I've written 10x as many articles about African-based companies, and of course the Wikisituation is the same, I find few people writing about companies in English; the French Wikipedia is a good source of articles from Africa d'Francophonie

So as winter approaches, enjoy pictures and some comforting corporate sentiments about the future in the Great North Land. All links are wiki articles.

Third Generation Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market · Unified Energy System
Financial services
Russian Trading System · Svyazinvest
Food
Lebedyansky · Wimm Bill Dann
Industrial
· ~Alrosa · Category:Mining companies of Russia · Celtic Resources Holdings plc · Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant · Evraz Group#Evraz Subsidiaries · Metalloinvest · Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK)/Magnitogorsk Steel · MMC Norilsk Nickel · Nizhnekamskneftekhim · Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works · Novatek · Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod/NKMZ · Novokuznetsk Iron and Steel Plant/NKMK · Novolipetsk Steel · Polyus Gold · Rusal · Severstal · Stoilensky GOK · VSMPO-AVISMA
Telecom
· Category:Telecommunications companies of Russia · Center Telecom · Dalsvyaz Telecom · Moscow City Telephone Network · North West Telecom · Rostelecom · Siberia Telecom · Svyazinvest · Southern Telecom · Volgatelecom · Uralsvyazinform

These are nice telecoms companies:

Svyazinvest Dalsvyaz Telecom North West Telecom

These three are megacompanies of diamonds, iron and aluminum respectively, put together from a multitude of communist companies, after communism's fever abated:

~Alrosa Evraz Group#Evraz Subsidiaries Rusal

And this one is a technosurreal trip to the origins of metalworking, with a tradition extending back many thousands of years, as though it were the origin of European iron technology. It's Tolkienesque, is what it is.

Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works