The Russian information technology (IT) sector has been steadily developing recently. In total,
(GDP). Import substitution, which has dominated the industry since 2014 and accelerated in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, has benefited domestic market leaders, such as Rostec, F+ Tech-Marvel, and the T1 Group. Furthermore, the industry has seen a continuous increase in
, which was close to one trillion Russian rubles in 2021. As a result of the Western sanctions, the Russian
Key segments of the Russian IT industry
The highest-earning IT market segment in Russia was
IT equipment, occupying roughly two thirds of the market. Some of the market players in this segment included ICL-KME CS, Atol, and IBS. IT services constituted the second-leading segment with a market share of over 20 percent. The system integrator
I-Teco had the highest revenue among IT services companies in the country, at around 27 billion Russian rubles in 2021. The software segment was the smallest, with a 12-percent share. It was dominated by the
T1 Group, which earned nearly 84 billion Russian rubles from software sales in the same year.
Import substitution in the Russian IT industry
Over the past decade, the Russian government has encouraged import substitution in the IT industry by providing subsidies to companies that developed solutions to replace foreign products. The
revenue of Russian software companies from sales within the country steadily increased from 3.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2015 to 11.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2021. The Western countries' ban on high-tech goods to Russia due to the
invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has limited Russia's access to imports of semiconductors and other hardware and have created an even higher demand for domestic hardware and software. Moreover, several international vendors either suspended new sales (such as
Microsoft) or completely withdrew from Russia (such as TeamViewer), pushing corporate and private consumers to search for domestic alternatives. Thus, some Russian IT companies and specialists relocated abroad to continue doing business with their international clients.
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