TASS told why global IT companies grew up in Yakutsk. Here they make mobile games that are played in the USA and China. Yakut competitor to Uber is already operating in 18 countries. A local service for collecting customer data is being implemented in supermarkets, the source writes.

According to information published by TASS, in 2015, Eduard Gotovtsev, a lawyer, a game lover, co-founder of the indie studio Fntastic, came to kickstarter with the idea of ​​the computer game The Wild Eight in the survival genre, where the player needs to survive in cold Alaska. The users liked the project, it was supported by 1.2 thousand people worldwide, they invested $ 59 thousand.

Gotovtsev gathered a team of students and graduates in the student business incubator at North-Eastern Federal University, including his brother. They made the game quickly and earned more than $ 1 million in the first month. And last year the studio released the mobile adventure game Radiant One.

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An interview with a student from East Africa Emmanuel Niyoytungir about education in Yakutia and differences in culture and life was published on the YSIA website.

The video shows why a young man from the African heartland decided to move to Yakutsk, what attracts foreign students to a harsh land. The student also told about his reaction to the first snow in his life, his favorite Yakut dish and study at NEFU, how much the profession he is planning to receive here is in demand in his homeland.