Moscow, 4 June 2025 — Nornickel, the official partner of the Digital Industry of Industrial Russia (CIPR-2025) conference, announces that it has presented its advanced digital initiatives and entered into new partnership agreements with a number of industry leaders to collaborate and implement best practices. CIPR is a key platform for discussing the digital transformation of society and key sectors of the national economy.

Nornickel and Yandex plan to develop cooperation in digitalisation and innovation, with Nornickel becoming an industrial partner of Yandex to advance services for large businesses. The cooperation will be with Yandex B2B Tech, Yandex’s business unit developing technologies for the corporate sector, and will cover the following areas: cloud platforms, data analytics, machine learning, information security, office applications, website hosting services, and HR Tech (technologies used for human resources management).

A cooperation agreement was signed during CIPR-2025 on 4 June 2025. This builds upon the existing working relationship between the two industry leaders. Nornickel already uses and tests Yandex B2B Tech technologies in several projects, such as developing products for industrial competence centres in the cloud, piloting AI services for industry, and migrating part of its systems to a cloud infrastructure.

The companies’ priorities include developing approaches to the secure implementation of cloud and AI solutions, efficient data processing, and the advancement of collaborative work services. “When two leaders combine their efforts on a single task, the result is a uniquely effective collaboration. Nornickel’s industry expertise will be valuable for Yandex in implementing its B2B market strategy, while Nornickel, by leveraging Yandex’s services, will significantly improve its operational efficiency and strengthen its technological sovereignty,” noted Liana Ermishina, Nornickel’s Vice President for Information Technology.

An agreement was also signed with 1C to partner on informatisation for the development, implementation, and promotion of software and methodological solutions on the 1C:Enterprise 8 platform, and to continue cooperation on creating information systems for Nornickel and its group companies.

Currently, a large number of domestic IT products are being developed simultaneously. Major industrial companies are engaging Russian vendors to create the best solutions for various industries. Nornickel remains committed to the principle of openness and will continue to build trusted relationships with 1C and other partners.

Nornickel has also agreed to a cybersecurity partnership with Transneft, the largest oil pipeline operator in Russia and the world. The main goals of the partnership are to synchronise efforts in preventing and detecting computer attacks and other information security threats, to make the response to them even more effective, and to establish an exchange of experience in mitigating their consequences.

“Russian industry has faced an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks. At the same time, our companies are facing complex challenges related to digitalisation. To ensure the cyber resilience of critical information infrastructure, it is necessary to consolidate efforts and expertise in information security. The signed agreement with Nornickel is an important step that will allow us to address issues of improving security and countering cyberattacks more promptly and effectively. In addition, our shared experience and unified approaches will enable us to formulate detailed requirements for developers of information security tools,” commented Mikhail Naumov, Director of the Information Security Department at Transneft.

Alexey Martyntsev, Director of Nornickel’s Information Security and IT Infrastructure Department, noted that this is Nornickel’s first information security collaboration with another industrial company. “This once again underscores how crucial cybersecurity issues are for major industrial businesses. Critical information infrastructure facilities, which are numerous in industrial companies, are under close scrutiny from regulators on the one hand, and targeted by malicious actors on the other. The synergy of efforts from companies that take a responsible approach to ensuring their information security can not only be a useful tool for the partners themselves but also make a significant contribution to strengthening the security of the entire industry,” said Alexey Martyntsev.

Nornickel forges new partnerships and showcases digital initiatives at CIPR-2025