Nginx web server developers returned to Russia and launched the Angie project

The American F5, which owns Nginx, left Russia in the middle of a special operation in Ukraine, Kommersant learned.

In July, Web-Server LLC was established in Moscow with an authorized capital of 500 thousand rubles, and the main activity is “software development”. On October 10, the company applied for the registration of the Angie trademark.

Co-owners include the former head of the Nginx Unit server development team, Valentin Bartenev, who worked at Nginx from 2011 to 2022. Also Ivan Poluyanov, Oleg Mamontov, Ruslan Ermilov, and former employees of Nginx Inc.

Angie will support Nginx users in Russia. Experts are sure that there will be a demand for the solution: in Russia, Nginx accounted for more than 60% of the market.

• In December 2019, the Nginx office in Moscow was registered. The founders of the company, Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov, were questioned by the police. At the same time, it became known that a criminal case had been opened at the request of the Cypriot company Lynwood Investments, which represented the interests of the Rambler Group.

• Igor Sysoev worked as a system administrator at Rambler in the early 2000s. In parallel, he developed Nginx, an open source web server. Rambler considered Nginx a development service and claimed exclusive rights to the startup’s software.

• Nginx was supported by Yandex, VKontakte, Ozon, and other major Russian Internet companies.

• In April 2020, Rambler asked investigators to remove him from the list of victims. The holding company also ended its relationship with Lynwood Investments. However, the Cypriot company retained the right to conduct business in its own name. At the same time, the Office of the General Prosecutor of the Russian Federation had grounds to terminate the criminal case against Nginx.