What is Yandex Search?

Engines that use results from Yandex Search

The research records no engine that takes its general results from Yandex Search or is built on it by the same company.

Where it is #1 by share

Russian Federation (70.15%). StatCounter Global Stats

Recorded markets

The research records Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russian Federation, Türkiye and Uzbekistan as the main markets for Yandex Search.

Other formats and channels

• APIDocumented

  Partner APIs for hotels^[57], air tickets^[64], caller ID^[61], route building^[62] and insurance^[68], all gated by application or contract.^[57]

• JSON fileDocumented

  Hosted JSON files for films and series^[38], subscription availability^[71] and investment quotes^[65].^[38]

• meta tagDocumented

  Snippet date from the article:published_time meta tag^[29]. The robots and yandex meta tags control indexing and extended displays^[27].^[29]

• RSS 2.0Documented

  RSS 2.0 feed with the yandex: namespace for the fresh content feature.^[46]

• SitemapDocumented

  Optional image Sitemap for image search^[49]. The Video help names Sitemap as a way to tell the robot about pages with marked-up video^[75].^[49]

• XLSXDocumented

  XLSX upload in Yandex Webmaster is an alternative to the YML feed for doctors.^[58]

• XML feedDocumented

  Custom XML feeds: real-estate object list^[69], sport video^[66] and the video XML feed that the Video help says is preferred over Schema.org fields^[74].^[69]

• YMLDocumented

  Yandex Market Language, an XML feed format built by Yandex. The main channel for vacancies, courses, events, real estate, vehicles, doctors, service providers, services, banking and products. Uploaded in Yandex Webmaster or through the Webmaster API.^[30]

Active 37

• Open Graph (snippet title and site name) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Required: og:image, og:title, og:type, og:url

  Recommended: og:audio, og:description, og:determiner, og:locale, og:locale:alternate, og:site_name, og:video

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Open Graph

  Channel: markup. The page gives two uses: video data for Yandex video search (with the Yandex extension) and snippets, which read og:title and og:site_name. The required and optional labels are the ones the page gives for the basic Open Graph set. Its examples declare the ya: prefix with a placeholder URL. Twitter Cards and RDFa are not mentioned.

  Documentation^[15]

• Адреса и организации (addresses and organizations; feeds the Контакты snippet) Active

  Documented for: Organization (main type), Place, EducationalOrganization, LocalBusiness, PerformingGroup, CivicStructure, PostalAddress and GeoCoordinates

  Required: address, name, telephone, url

  Recommended: faxNumber, geo, location, openingHours

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup, or a Yandex Business listing^[45]. Supported subtypes of Organization and Place carry a plus sign on the page. geo accepts GeoCoordinates only; the page says GeoShape is not supported. openingHours applies to LocalBusiness and CivicStructure descendants. Data is processed by Yandex Business; the address snippet can show when the site is in the top 30 results. Marked pages must be reachable from the home page; each branch is marked up separately. No country restriction named; no display guarantee.

  Documentation^[7]

• Быстрые ссылки (sitelinks) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Channel: automatic.

  Documentation^[40]

• Быстрый ответ (quick answer) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Channel: automatic. Answers generated by YandexGPT are shown only for Russia. Opt out with a robots.txt Disallow for YandexAdditional or YandexAdditionalBot; the change takes 2 to 14 days. The feature page names no markup; the test plan^[70] lists a Q3 2022 experiment that uses Schema.org markup for quick answers.

  Documentation^[39]

• Вакансии (vacancies) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML

  Channel: YML feed uploaded in Yandex Webmaster or through the Webmaster API. No Schema.org, microdata, JSON-LD or JobPosting mention. Limits: 200 MB per feed, 30,000 offers per feed, 200 images per offer, 50,000 images in total, 1 million sets, 1,000 YML files per site with its subdomains. For job-listing sites. A region is chosen at upload.

  Documentation^[41]

• Видео (video in search results) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Channel: automatic. The page describes no site-side input; the markup routes for video search are documented separately^{[16, 74]}.

  Documentation^[34]

• Видимость сайта в Алисе AI (site visibility in Alice AI answers) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Channel: none; no markup is named as an input. Generated answers cite sources and only indexed pages are cited. Yandex Webmaster has a citation report. Block use with a robots.txt Disallow for YandexAdditional or YandexAdditionalBot; it takes 2 to 14 days. The ranking aspects page^[73] lists Schema.org markup as one way to give Search more information without tying it to Alice AI answers. This page is absent from the English help index^[79]; the companion page source 33 is present there.

  Documentation^[32]

• Вопросы и ответы на мобильной выдаче (Q&A on mobile results) Active

  Documented for: QAPage (main type), Question and Answer

  Recommended: acceptedAnswer, isAccessibleForFree, name, suggestedAnswer, text, upvoteCount

  Where: not stated

  Formats: JSON-LD

  Channel: markup. Mobile snippet only. No field is labelled required. One question per page; one best answer is chosen. isAccessibleForFree set to false truncates the text and adds a read-more link. FAQPage is not mentioned. No languages or regions named; no display guarantee; about two weeks. The test plan^[70] lists experiments that switch off the special Q&A snippet in Q4 2022, Q1 2023, Q2 2023 and Q2 2024.

  Documentation^[6]

• Врачи (doctors) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML, XLSX

  Channel: YML feed version 2.0 in Yandex Webmaster or through the Webmaster API, or an XLSX file in Webmaster, or automatic from partner data and crawling. No Schema.org, Physician or MedicalClinic mention. YML limits: 200 MB, 30,000 offers per feed, 200 images per offer, 50,000 images, 1,000 YML files per site with its subdomains. XLSX limits: 5 MB, 30,000 rows, 1 image per doctor, 50,000 images. For sites with doctor and medical service information; technology partners acting for clinics have separate criteria; reviews only from independent platforms; doctor consent is needed. A region is chosen at upload.

  Documentation^[58]

• Группировки в результатах поиска (groupings in search results) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Channel: automatic; a site cannot request it. Includes an Encyclopedias group for Russian-language content. Absent from the English help index^[79].

  Documentation^[54]

• Информация о товарах (product information) Active

  Documented for: Product (main type), Offer, AggregateOffer and OfferCatalog

  Required: brand, description, image, name, Offer.availability, Offer.price, Offer.priceCurrency, offers

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup. AggregateOffer.lowPrice replaces Offer.price when AggregateOffer is used. image must be a URL, not an ImageObject. priceCurrency in ISO 4217. OfferCatalog (name, description, image) and catalog Offer fields are listed without a required label on this page. sku, gtin, aggregateRating and review are not mentioned. Page languages named: Russian, English, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Tatar, Kazakh. Pages with several different products get no structured snippet; one OfferCatalog per catalog page, no nesting. Price is hidden when the item is out of stock. Low-quality markup can remove a site from the partner program. About two weeks; no guarantee.

  Documentation^[11]

• Исполнители (service providers) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML

  Channel: YML feed with offers in sets, through Yandex Webmaster or the Webmaster API. No Schema.org mention. Limits: 200 MB per feed, 30,000 offers, 200 images per offer, 50,000 images, 1 million sets, 1,000 YML files. For informational sites that host service-provider offers; list pages only; feeds pass quality control.

  Documentation^[59]

• Картинки (images in search results) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Sitemap

  Channel: automatic, with an optional image Sitemap. The Schema.org route for image search is documented in the Images help^[78].

  Documentation^[49]

• Карточка юридического лица или ИП (legal entity or sole proprietor card) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Channel: automatic, from Federal Tax Service open data and other registries. No site-side input.

  Documentation^[60]

• Микроформат hRecipe (hRecipe microformat: recipes) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Required: fn, ingredient

  Recommended: author, category, cuisine-type, duration, instruction, instructions, nutrition, photo, result-photo, sub-category, weight, yield

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microformats

  Channel: markup. One recipe per page. Yandex additions to hRecipe: result-photo, instruction, name and amount inside ingredient, nutrition parts (saturatedFat, unsaturatedFat, sugar, fiber, cholesterol, servingSize), category, sub-category, cuisine-type, weight. The general page^[72] names no country, language or site-type limit and no end date, and does not mention Schema.org.

  Documentation^[20]

• Мобильные приложения (mobile apps) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Channel: automatic, from Google Play, App Store and Huawei AppGallery data.

  Documentation^[44]

• Навигационные цепочки (breadcrumbs) Active

  Documented for: BreadcrumbList

  Recommended: name, url

  Where: not stated

  Formats: JSON-LD

  Channel: markup. The page names only BreadcrumbList (no ListItem or itemListElement) and lists name and url as recommended fields; position may be left out. JSON-LD is the recommended syntax and no code example is given. Up to three items advised; every URL on the site's own domain; a URL for every item except the last. Items can be dropped when the name is under four characters, too long or points to the home page. Emoji are removed. Forms within about two weeks. The test plan^[70] lists a Q4 2022 experiment that switches breadcrumbs off.

  Documentation^[5]

• Недвижимость (real estate) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML

  Channel: YML feed by URL in Yandex Webmaster or through the Webmaster API. No Schema.org mention. Limits: 200 MB per feed, 30,000 offers per feed, 200 images per offer, 50,000 images in total, 1 million sets, 1,000 YML files per site with its subdomains. A region is set at upload and offer URLs must be unique within a region. For rental and sale sites; enrichment only on pages that list objects.

  Documentation^[55]

• Образовательные онлайн-курсы и уроки (online courses and lessons) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML

  Channel: YML feed through Yandex Webmaster or the Webmaster API, or automatic from crawler data. No Schema.org or Course mention. Limits: 200 MB per feed, 30,000 offers per feed, 200 images per offer, 50,000 images in total, 1 million sets, 1,000 YML files per site with its subdomains. A region is chosen at upload.

  Documentation^[42]

• Отображение даты в сниппете (date in the snippet) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Recommended: article:published_time

  Where: not stated

  Formats: meta tag

  Channel: URL pattern or meta tag. The date comes from the page URL or from the article:published_time meta tag in ISO 8601. No Schema.org date property is named on the page.

  Documentation^[29]

• Поиск по товарам (product search) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML

  Channel: automatic, plus an optional YML feed through the Merchants account or the Webmaster API. The test plan^[70] lists a Q1 2022 item that extends popular products to all regions of Russia.

  Documentation^[47]

• Превью для видео (video preview) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Channel: automatic. The page describes no site-side input.

  Documentation^[35]

• Программы (software) Active

  Documented for: SoftwareApplication (main type), MobileApplication, WebApplication, VideoGame and Offer

  Required: description

  Recommended: applicationSubCategory, fileSize, interactionCount, Offer.price, Offer.priceCurrency, operatingSystem

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup. At least two optional properties are needed for the structured snippet. interactionCount uses the Yandex pattern UserDownloads:XXX. A price of 0 shows as free. applicationSubCategory: only the first values are used, 24 characters combined.

  Documentation^[8]

• Разметка Open Graph для видео (Open Graph markup for video search) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Required: og:description, og:image, og:title, og:type, og:url, og:video, og:video:type, video:duration, ya:ovs:adult, ya:ovs:upload_date

  Recommended: og:restrictions:age, og:restrictions:country:allowed, og:restrictions:country:disallowed, og:video:height, og:video:width, video:release_date, video:tag, ya:ovs:album, ya:ovs:allow_embed, ya:ovs:available_platform, ya:ovs:bitrate, ya:ovs:category, ya:ovs:comments, ya:ovs:content_id, ya:ovs:content_url, ya:ovs:content_url:public, ya:ovs:country, ya:ovs:created_date, ya:ovs:dislikes, ya:ovs:dubbing, ya:ovs:embed_html, ya:ovs:end_date, ya:ovs:episode, ya:ovs:expiration_date, ya:ovs:feed_url, ya:ovs:genre, ya:ovs:id, ya:ovs:is_official, ya:ovs:languages, ya:ovs:license, ya:ovs:likes, ya:ovs:login, ya:ovs:modify_date, ya:ovs:original_name, ya:ovs:person, ya:ovs:person:role, ya:ovs:poster, ya:ovs:price, ya:ovs:price:currency, ya:ovs:price:duration, ya:ovs:price:rate, ya:ovs:production_company, ya:ovs:quality, ya:ovs:rating, ya:ovs:season, ya:ovs:start_date, ya:ovs:status, ya:ovs:subtitle, ya:ovs:subtitle:language, ya:ovs:track_name, ya:ovs:views_last_day, ya:ovs:views_last_month, ya:ovs:views_last_week, ya:ovs:views_total, ys:ovs:movie:part

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Open Graph

  Channel: markup. Used by Yandex video search. Prefix declaration on the page: og: http://ogp.me/ns# video: http://ogp.me/ns/video# ya: http://webmaster.yandex.ru/vocabularies/. The page writes one property with a ys: prefix (ys:ovs:movie:part, listed here as written) and also shows the spelling ya:ovs:production_coumpany; both look like typos. The Video help copy^[77] adds ya:ovs:embed_region_allowed and ya:ovs:embed_region_disallowed for Yandex robots only, an og:image minimum of 352 x 198 px and an og:title limit of 1000 characters. No display guarantee.

  Documentation^[16]

• Разметка Schema.org для видео (Schema.org markup for video search) Active

  Documented for: VideoObject (main type), Movie, TVEpisode, MusicVideoObject, TVSeries, BroadcastEvent and ImageObject

  Required: description, duration, isFamilyFriendly, name, thumbnail, uploadDate, url

  Recommended: aggregateRating, album, allowCountries, allowEmbed, alternativeHeadline, author, availablePlatform, bitrate, caption, content_id, contentSize, contentUrl, dateCreated, dateEnded, dateModified, datePublished, dateReleased, disallowCountries, dubbing, embedUrl, expires, feedUrl, genre, height, image, inLanguage, interactionCount, isOfficial, license, part, partOfSeason, playerType, productionCompany, productionCountry, status, subtitleLanguage, videoQuality, width

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup. Missing required fields mean the video is not indexed. Type-specific required fields: Movie needs video; TVEpisode needs video and episodeNumber; MusicVideoObject needs video and trackName; TVSeries needs video and dateReleased; BroadcastEvent needs video and dateStarted. thumbnail is an ImageObject. The page marks these fields as Yandex-specific: feedUrl, license, isOfficial, status (published, private, blocked, processing, deleted), embedUrl, allowEmbed, playerType, availablePlatform, allowCountries, disallowCountries, productionCountry, dubbing. When an XML video feed also exists the feed is preferred and markup is used only if the feed is unavailable. No JSON-LD mention and no validator link on this page.

  Documentation^[74]

• Разметка Schema.org для картинок (Schema.org markup for image search) Active

  Documented for: ImageObject

  Required: contentUrl

  Recommended: caption, description, height, name, width

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup. contentUrl is preferred; image is accepted in its place and thumbnail is the fallback. height and width use the Distance form, for example 5 px.

  Documentation^[78]

• Рефераты (essays and student papers) Active

  Documented for: CreativeWork

  Required: description, learningResourceType

  Recommended: author, genre, headline, name

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup. description of about 50 to 150 characters. learningResourceType takes a fixed Yandex value list: AcademicThesis, BookReport, Coursework, Dissertation, Examination, StudentEssay, StudentLaboratoryWork, StudentReport, StudentSummary. name or headline: either one.

  Documentation^[9]

• Рецепты (recipes) Active

  Documented for: Recipe (main type) and NutritionInformation

  Required: name, recipeIngredient

  Recommended: cookTime, image, nutrition, prepTime, recipeInstructions, recipeYield, resultPhoto, totalTime

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup (Schema.org Recipe here; hRecipe is the alternative per source 36). Partner program for culinary sites with quality control; the data page^[23] says recipe snippets are only for food sites. cookTime is the fallback when totalTime is missing. resultPhoto is a Yandex addition that is not in Schema.org. No display guarantee. The test plan^[70] lists experiments in Q4 2022 and Q1 2023 that switch off or change the Recipe partner integration.

  Documentation^[10]

• Свежее и актуальное (fresh and current content) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Required: link, pubDate, title, yandex:full-text

  Recommended: author, category, content:encoded, description, media:group, pdalink, yandex:genre, yandex:theme_tags

  Where: not stated

  Formats: RSS 2.0

  Channel: RSS 2.0 feed on the site, added in Yandex Webmaster. content:encoded may replace yandex:full-text and then becomes required. yandex:genre values: lenta, message, article, interview. pdalink holds the mobile-version link. Namespaces: yandex: http://news.yandex.ru and media: http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/. Limits: feed up to 10 MB; only items from the last 8 days are indexed; new items at least weekly. The site needs free access without registration, a separate full-text page per URL, fast stable access and a mobile version. No Schema.org, NewsArticle or Article mention.

  Documentation^[46]

• Список организаций (organization list) Active

  Documented for: Organization (main type), Place, EducationalOrganization, LocalBusiness, CivicStructure, PerformingGroup, MusicGroup, PostalAddress and GeoCoordinates

  Required: address, name, telephone, url

  Recommended: faxNumber, geo, location, openingHours, PostalAddress.addressCountry, PostalAddress.addressLocality, PostalAddress.addressRegion, PostalAddress.postalCode, PostalAddress.postOfficeBoxNumber, PostalAddress.streetAddress

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup, or a Yandex Business listing. Supported Organization and Place subtypes carry a plus sign on the page, among them EducationalOrganization, the LocalBusiness subtree, the CivicStructure subtree, PerformingGroup and MusicGroup. address is a PostalAddress; geo accepts GeoCoordinates only. Markup must pass the validator; each branch is marked up separately; pages must be reachable from the home page. Fuel availability for gas stations needs an email application plus an API. The parent page^[50] describes the carousel: organizations by markup or Yandex Business, real-estate objects by XML feed^[69]. Absent from the English help index^[79].

  Documentation^[51]

• Строгая микроразметка: Каталоги (strict markup: catalogs) Active

  Documented for: OfferCatalog (main type) and Offer

  Required: description, image, name, Offer.availability, Offer.description, Offer.image, Offer.name, Offer.price, Offer.priceCurrency, Offer.url

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup. Every supported field is required. image must be a URL. One OfferCatalog per page. The page states that JSON-LD processing is not guaranteed; its example is in Microdata.

  Documentation^[13]

• Строгая микроразметка: Товары (strict markup: products) Active

  Documented for: Product (main type), Offer and AggregateOffer

  Where: not stated

  Channel: markup. The page names only the offers property and no syntax; it says nothing about JSON-LD. Page markup gets top priority over other data sources for the product. Links to the Yandex Merchants help. About two weeks.

  Documentation^[12]

• Товарный сниппет (product snippet) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML

  Channel: YML feed sent through Yandex Market or the merchants account, or through the Webmaster API. No Schema.org route is described on this page; on-page product markup is documented on sources 11 and 12.

  Documentation^[37]

• Товары в Яндекс Картинках (products in Yandex Images) Active

  Documented for: Product (main type), Offer and AggregateOffer

  Required: description, name, Offer.price, Offer.priceCurrency

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata, YML

  Channel: markup, or a YML feed through Yandex Merchants or the Webmaster API, or automatic. At least two schemas are needed: Product plus Offer or AggregateOffer. AggregateOffer.lowPrice replaces Offer.price. availability and image carry no required label: the price is hidden when the item is out of stock, and image appears only in the examples. priceCurrency in ISO 4217. No JSON-LD mention. Aimed at online stores and marketplaces. No explicit language or region limit; the examples show ru, com and tr variants with RUB, USD and TRY. No guarantee.

  Documentation^[48]

• Транспортные средства (vehicles) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML

  Channel: YML feed with offers grouped in sets, through Yandex Webmaster or the Webmaster API. No Schema.org, Car or Vehicle mention. Limits: 200 MB per feed, 30,000 offers per feed, 200 images per offer, 50,000 images in total, 1 million sets, 1,000 YML files per site with its subdomains. The limits table also says up to 10 photos per offer. A region is chosen at upload. For sites selling passenger, commercial and motorcycle vehicles; list pages only.

  Documentation^[56]

• Услуги (services) Active

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML

  Channel: automatic from crawler data, or a YML feed with the root element services_feed through Yandex Webmaster or the Webmaster API, or a Yandex Business listing. No Schema.org, Service or LocalBusiness mention. Limits: 200 MB; 1,000 rubrics and 1,000 categories per feed; 10,000 executor elements per feed; 500 service elements per executor; 1,000 images per executor; 2,000 review elements per executor; 10 photos per review; 1,000 feeds. For organizations, private specialists and platforms with offers from several providers. The site must belong to a legal entity or sole proprietor, follow the law of its country of registration, have a desktop version and allow direct contact with the provider. Absent from the English help index^[79].

  Documentation^[67]

• Фильмы (movies) Active

  Documented for: Movie (main type) and AggregateRating

  Required: aggregateRating, AggregateRating.bestRating, AggregateRating.ratingValue

  Recommended: actor, award, contentRating, dateCreated, datePublished, description, director, duration, genre, inLanguage, isFamilyFriendly, musicBy, producer, productionCompany

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microdata

  Channel: markup. aggregateRating is the only field marked mandatory and needs ratingValue together with bestRating. name, image and alternativeHeadline appear only in the example. No display guarantee.

  Documentation^[14]

Limited 13

• Авиабилеты (air tickets) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: API

  Channel: API under a paid contract.

  Documentation^[64]

• Банковские услуги (banking services) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: YML

  Channel: one YML feed per thematic block, linked in an application form; data may also be built automatically from crawler data. Limits: 50 MB, 10,000 offer elements, 1,000 YML files. Eligible: banks and partners in the Bank of Russia registry of financial platform operators; showing reviews also requires rating at least 10 banks from the Bank of Russia list. Schema.org is mentioned once: review author, text and date may be given in Schema.org markup instead of a feed, with no type, property name or syntax named. The display of additional currency exchange information is suspended.

  Documentation^[63]

• Видео спортивных событий (sport event video) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: XML feed

  Channel: XML feed sent by email for moderation.

  Documentation^[66]

• Инвестиции (investments) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: JSON file, YML

  Channel: hosted JSON file for quotes (serviceName, url, logo_url, items) and a YML feed for forecasts, submitted through a form. The service must operate in the Russian Federation.

  Documentation^[65]

• Микроформат hCard (hCard microformat: organization contacts) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Required: adr, fn, org, tel, vcard

  Recommended: category, email, geo, url, workhours

  Where: not stated

  Formats: Microformats

  Channel: markup. Region lock: cards are processed only for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan^[18]. fn and org carry the same value. adr parts: country-name, region, locality, street-address, extended-address, postal-code. geo holds latitude and longitude. workhours is a Yandex extension. Other hCard properties, such as logo, are ignored. Data goes to Yandex Business and may show under the site description in search and on maps.

  Documentation^[19]

• Музыка (music) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Channel: application form. No markup or feed is named.

  Documentation^[43]

• Определение телефонных номеров (caller ID) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: API

  Channel: API, after an application by email.

  Documentation^[61]

• Отели (hotels) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: API

  Channel: API for aggregators, with a token issued by a Yandex manager, an application form and a paid contract. A Yandex Business listing covers the basic hotel card.

  Documentation^[57]

• Отображение наличия подписки (subscription availability for films and series) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Required: email_hash, phone_hash, sub_name

  Recommended: date_from, date_to

  Where: not stated

  Formats: JSON file

  Channel: hosted JSON file updated at least daily, plus an application form. sub_name must match requirespayment.name in the films file. email_hash and phone_hash are MD5 values (the page also writes emails_hash). The user-data file must be GPG encrypted. No Schema.org; no region limit stated.

  Documentation^[71]

• Построение маршрута (route building) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: API

  Channel: URL templates plus an API. Requires at least 1 million daily active users in Russia.

  Documentation^[62]

• Рейтинг (rating) Limited

  Documented for: Review

  Where: not stated

  Channel: markup plus a request to Webmaster support, or automatic from reviews on the company profile in Yandex. The page names only the Review type: no properties, no syntax, no AggregateRating. Shown for sites that pass a quality check. Absent from the English help index^[79].

  Documentation^[53]

• Список объектов недвижимости (real-estate object list) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: XML feed

  Channel: XML feed with the root element supplementing-metarealty-feed (namespace metarealty/2026-03), submitted through a form. Offer elements: url, type, category, location, price, area, image, description. Absent from the English help index^[79].

  Documentation^[69]

• Фильмы и сериалы (films and series) Limited

  Documented for: no schema.org type recorded

  Where: not stated

  Formats: JSON file

  Channel: hosted JSON file (top-level serviceName, url, items) plus an application form. Open to online cinemas registered with Roskomnadzor. The Video help has a related page^[76].

  Documentation^[38]