Dateno
A search engine for datasets. It learns each catalog's platform and API addresses from the registry of data catalogs and collects dataset descriptions through them: 22 million datasets from 5,236 sources as of October 2026.
Projects
Projects I founded, lead or have built. Most of them are open: code on GitHub, data under open licenses.
Data discovery
Registry of data catalogs
An open registry of data catalogs of the whole world, started as Common Data Index: 43,614 catalogs and 790 platforms in release 1.27.0 of October 2026.
datacatalogs.ru
A list of data catalogs of Russia by Infoculture. It had 245 entries at launch in November 2021.
Organizations
Infoculture
Informational Culture, a non-profit for open government and open data. Founded in March 2012 by the founders of the Apps4Russia contest. Runs open databases, the National Digital Archive and Open Data Day in Moscow.
Open Data Armenia
A community project that collects and publishes open data about Armenia.
APICrafter
Data APIs and tools for understanding data, including metacrafter for detecting what table columns contain.
Open government and public spending
Public spending portal
spending.gov.ru: contracts, subsidies and national project spending, released as open data and through an API. A team of six built it in four and a half months; it launched in November 2019.
Clearspending
An open database of government contracts in Russia, an Infoculture project.
Hub of Open Data
A community data catalog on CKAN, launched before the government open data portals in Russia.
NGO Data
An open data portal about non-profit organizations, run by Infoculture.
OpenGovData.ru
News and a knowledge base about open government data in Russia.
Apps4Russia
A contest where developers built applications on government data.
Open Data Day in Moscow
An annual Infoculture event, part of the International Open Data Day.
Digital preservation
National Digital Archive
Saves websites, Telegram channels and open data at risk of disappearing, mostly government ones, and makes the archives open. Archived open data portals in 2022 and the Rosstat and EMISS statistics sites in 2025.
apibackuper
Backs up data that is only available page by page through an API.
Open-source tools
undatum
A command-line tool for data files in CSV, NDJSON, XML and other formats.
metacrafter
Detects what table columns contain, such as identifiers, codes and personal data.
filerepack
Lossless-first recompression of Office documents, archives, images, PDFs and data files.
newsworker
Finds and extracts news feeds from websites that have no RSS or Atom.
qddate
A Python library that parses dates from HTML very fast.
docx2csv
Extracts tables from .docx files and saves them as CSV or XLS.
Readability for Russian
Readability formulas adapted to Russian, used to check how plain official texts are.
awesome-status-pages
A curated list of open-source status page software, services and public status pages.