Maps & Navigation
Yandex Maps & Navigator
Maps, business listings and public transport routing with offline maps across Russia and nearby countries.
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- Developer
- DIRECT CURSUS COMPUTER SYSTEMS TRADING LLC
- Score
- 4.6
- Downloads
- 10K+ ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 31.1.4
- Price
- Free
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About this app
Strongest in Russia and its neighbours, Yandex Maps covers more than 2,000 cities in Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia. It pairs a large database of organisations, with contacts, hours, services, photos and reviews, with routing for drivers, public transport users, cyclists and pedestrians. Transport layers show buses, trams, trolleybuses and minibuses moving in real time, along with live traffic, official parking with prices, and street panoramas. Walking routes use paths through parks and between buildings, bike routes account for underpasses and road types, and driving directions include voice guidance plus speed camera and speed limit warnings. Users can mark road events, write reviews and upload photos. Floor plans exist for Moscow's major shopping malls. Offline maps are small downloads (Moscow is about 187 MB) and support search, driving routes and voice navigation. An Apple Watch app shows nearby stops and arrival times.
Yandex Maps & Navigator: the full guide
What the app is
For Russia and its neighbours, this is the map. Yandex Maps spans 2,000-plus cities across Russia and eight nearby countries, Kazakhstan and Belarus to Georgia, Turkey, Latvia and Estonia among them, with a deep business directory of hours, contacts, photos and reviews, and routing for cars, transit, bikes and walking.
Live layers show trams, buses, trolleybuses and minibuses crawling along their routes, plus traffic, paid parking with prices and street panoramas. Users add road events, reviews and photos. Offline maps are compact, around 187 MB for Moscow, and handle search, driving routes and spoken guidance. On the wrist, the Watch app lists nearby stops and arrival times.
How it works day to day
In a Russian city, a day starts with checking when the next tram or minibus arrives, watching the icon crawl along the line in real time. Walking directions follow park paths and courtyards between buildings rather than sticking to main roads, which is how people in those cities move.
Finding a café means reading reviews and photos in the directory, checking hours, and picking a route. Drivers get voice guidance with camera and speed limit warnings and can see where paid parking is and what it costs. Visitors download the city before arriving so search and routing work without a local SIM.
Why people look for it
Coverage. In the countries it serves, global maps apps are often weaker on business listings, transit data and address detail, and Yandex is the local standard. Travellers heading to Moscow, Almaty, Tbilisi or Istanbul are told to install it before they land, and the small offline downloads make that easy. The 4.6 rating on 10K+ reviews here reflects a non-Russian-market listing of a much larger product.
Look and feel
Dense, in the way a good city map should be. The five screenshots will show the map with transit vehicles moving, a business card with photos and reviews, and probably a route or panorama. Yandex's cartography is detailed down to building outlines and courtyard paths. Expect a lot on screen at once, with layers you toggle rather than a minimal view.
