Sot2K LTD - About us

A Yorkshire based company SOT2K is offering a range of consultancy and business services related to the Russian market. We were established in July 1998. The three partners in the company have a complementary mix of skills and substantial experience of international business. All three have been involved in transnational collaboration through decades of work in private and public sectors in the Soviet Union, Russia, China, Cambodia and in the UK. The company is totally bilingual.

Over the last 5 years SOT2K has developed into a specialised provider of Russian market entry strategies for British and recently American SMEs. Dozens of UK companies including many educational institutions visited the Russian market (well beyond Moscow and St Petersburg) and established themselves there through partnerships with Russian institutions and government bodies through SOT2K.

Hundreds of Russian educationalists have visited UK for various training courses funded by Russian Government “Education” programme through SOT2K. We are acting like an interface for a number of UK universities and colleges involved in the Training Programmes for the Winter Olympic Games in 2014 in the city of Sochi on the Russian Black See Coast as well as World Students Games in the Russian city of Kazan in 2013.

Best examples of the collaborative work with the Russian education institutions can be found at Leeds Metropolitan University and Walsall college. These UK institutions have been very active in the Russian market over the last five years. They have developed long term commercial partnerships in Moscow and in the Russian Regions.

The Krasnodar Region in the South of Russia will host the Winter Olympic Games in 2014. The Russian Government is using the Games as the catalyst for major development of the Russian stretch of the Black See coast. The demand for Western investment, expertise, goods and services is insatiable in this area as the Russians want to attract European holidaymakers to the Region.

The city of Kazan – capital of the Republic of Tatarstan – hosting World Students Games in 2013 is very often referred to as The Third Capital of Russia. SOT2K established links with ministers in the government in Tatarstan as well as in education and industry. These links are waiting to be translated into partnerships and projects.

SOT2K is an official UK operator for the annual Sochi International Investment Forum which the Russians rank as high as the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

SOT2K is a one stop shop for those who think of Russia as their current or future market. We do a whole range of services for companies wanting to work in Russia including market research, cultural awareness and business practices brief, marketing material preparation, fact finding tours, trade missions, due diligence, translation and interpreting, Russian style financial documents and many other. We also do a full travel service including visas, international and domestic flights and transfers, accommodation and many more.

What you don't know about Russia you don't need to, when you've got SOT2K with you.

Alexander Zhabin
Director SOT2K