ESG

VK helps people and companies come together around what truly matters. You can learn more about VK’s sustainability achievements for 2025 on this dedicated website.

Our strategic goal is to create services that make people’s lives more comfortable, convenient, safer — while supporting society, business and the state in their digital transformation.

VK’s priority areas in the ESG sphere are information security, personal data protection, and the reliability of our services. We are also actively investing in our educational initiatives and striving to minimize our ecological footprint.

People are our greatest asset. One of the key pillars of the company’s ESG strategy is attracting, retaining and developing talented professionals. We foster a comfortable, inclusive, and fair working environment where everyone has opportunities for professional growth. We also care about diversity and equal opportunity, with a special focus on increasing the number of women in our company and in the IT industry as a whole.

College or university students can already become a part of the VK team while finishing their studies. To make this possible, we partner with leading Russian universities to launch joint educational programs for students and offer internships and practical training. For high school students, we also create opportunities for early development in the IT field — we host the Technocup competition and support the All‑Russian Artificial Intelligence Olympiad.

We also carry out social initiatives: we improve the digital experience for VK users, promote transparent charity, and increase digital service accessibility. We strive to ensure that technology benefits everyone — regardless of age, experience, or individual circumstances.

We develop technologies with the environment in mind and build our own infrastructure with a focus on energy efficiency. By 2025, we will have four geographic clusters of data centers in operation, featuring innovative solutions such as direct free‑cooling — the use of outside air to cool servers.

VK’s offices are becoming more eco‑friendly every year. The Moscow office has a waste sorting station where employees can dispose of 21 types of recyclable materials. We also regularly hold campaigns to collect old electronics: in 2025, we sent over 1,800 kg of equipment for recycling.

We encourage not only our employees but also our users to care about the environment. For the fourth year in a row, the Uchi.ru platform has hosted an environmental and ecology Olympiad for schoolchildren.

An important part of our ESG strategy is ensuring the high quality of our corporate governance. We run the Trust Service — a channel for reporting violations or suspicious activity.

In 2025, we maintained a consistent approach to reporting and published a combined annual report that incorporated the company’s key performance results and sustainability achievements.

One of the company’s most important objectives is to standardize all our projects and initiatives in the field of sustainable development. To achieve this, we develop and publish our policies and codes.