Founder of "Vkontakte" Pavel Durov sold to new owners of the social network of the company Mail.Ru Gorup data center, where servers and all the data of the website, as it turned out, 919 million. Conformable data became known after the release of economic reports Mail.Ru Gorup for 1st half of 2015. The acquisition of the data center "ICWA" was closed in early may 2015. One of the goals of acquisition "ICWA" holding call "the increase in scientific and technical independence of the group from a third-party hosting". Earlier it was expected that Durov received for the building of the half. Experts estimated worth 500-600 million rubles, says the newspaper "Izvestia". Officially the price "ICWA" before today, were not disclosed. The territory that belongs to LLC "ICWA", occupies 8.5 acres. Here are 7 buildings joint area of 15 thousand square meters. It is known that the computer was negotiating the acquisition of LLC "ICWA" in 2010, one year later the firm bought Ilya perekopsky, former Vice-President of "Vkontakte". Later the company was re-registered on owned Durova enterprise Icva International Business Company Limited. According to some, the founder of "Vkontakte" held in the buildings of the firm renovated and equipped the data center by their own means. On the construction of its own data center for the social network insisted the Fund DST, who believed that "Vkontakte" should not depend on third-party data centers, says the newspaper. Initially, the firm used the first equipment of its own investors, Vyacheslav Mirilashvili and Lev Leviev, who owns the hosting provider "Selectel".