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Artifact Agency

Artifact · Digital Market Entry · Almaty

We find distributors in the CIS and Central Asia
for manufacturers from abroad.

We look for a partner to represent your brand here and bring them to the negotiating table with you.

We are in Almaty. From here we work across the CIS and Central Asia, where negotiations with distributors are held in Russian.

Discuss your projectSee how it works

A minute from plants and quarries across the region, shot by our team.

Who we are

Since 2024 Artifact has been presenting foreign brands to distributors across the CIS and Central Asia.

We work with companies only. We know how buyers here look for a supplier, whom they trust and how a deal gets done.

2011
the year we started in Almaty: sites, advertising and video for companies in the region
1,000+
clients in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Belarus
100+
sites built and promoted
10+
years of industrial video, filmed on site

We don't work with gambling, weapons, drugs, fur or leather.

More about the agency
Worker in a protective suit at a bagging line, shot by the Artifact crew
Bagging line during one of our shoots in Kazakhstan.

Three ways to work with us

What do you need in the CIS and Central Asia?

  1. If you need a site and advertising in Russian here, and distributors

    Monthly · Full service

    From $10,000a month

    Term
    No fixed end date
    Ad budget
    From $1,000 a month for 1–2 countries, paid to the platforms directly
    Strategy & market
    Company profile & positioning · strategy & content plan · demand & competitor read · distributor map by country
    Site & content
    Site in Russian + SEO · accounts in the channels buyers use · photo, video & stories every week · B2B copy
    Advertising
    On social: Instagram, TikTok, Telegram · in Google & Yandex search · we run the budget and the ads · weekly numbers
    Distributors
    Mailings & cold outreach in Russian · inquiry screening · negotiations with an interpreter · a report every month
    In detail: Monthly

  2. If you need distributors here, and your marketing is your own

    Fee + percentage · Search

    $2,200plus a percentage in month one, then the percentage only

    Percentage period
    12 months from the introduction, on each paid order from the buyers we brought
    Percentage
    Fixed in the contract before we start
    Search
    Distributors & buyers by country · letters & calls in Russian · replies taken to terms & samples
    Negotiations
    Meetings with your representative · an interpreter · buyer documents in Russian
    Support
    A report every month · we stay in touch with each buyer

    By the end of month one you have at least one distributor or buyer interested in your product. If not, we keep searching for up to two more months with no fixed fee.

    In detail: Fee + percentage

  3. If you are exhibiting in Almaty or Astana

    Trade show · Team at your stand

    Per fairitemised, you choose the lines

    Term
    Preparation before the fair, every day of it at the stand, and a week of letters after
    From you
    One representative of the company
    Space
    Paid to the organiser
    Before
    We learn your product · stand script in Russian · invitations to distributors & buyers · stand design & build · printing & documents in Russian
    At the stand
    A team sized to the stand · an interpreter for your representative · visitors consulted in Russian · a contact register
    After
    A letter to every contact within a week · the contact register stays with you · the search can go on in the fee + percentage or the monthly format

    The quote lists every line on its own: team, interpreter, stand, printing.

    In detail: Trade show
Discuss your project

You can start with one format and move to another.

All services and prices

Cases

Our work

Two cases: a furniture maker's turnover and a film for a plant.

All cases

Team experience

Dealer networks our team has built

For 15 years people on our team have built dealer networks for manufacturers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. We describe each company by its profile, not by name.

Manufacturers' dealer networks

  1. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia

    Heating equipment brand

    Private label

    Helped create the brand, found and signed partners, built the dealer network and grew sales.

    ≈60

    partners across the EAEU

    Turnover about $800,000 a year. The business was later sold.

  2. EAEU countries

    Building plumbing brand

    Brand registered in Russia

    Developed the partner network, sales and brand promotion.

  3. Armenia

    Juice and preserves producer

    Juices, sparkling juices, jams, vegetable preserves

    Found dealers and developed dealer relationships.

  4. China and Turkey

    Pump and industrial equipment manufacturers

    Partner network and distribution.

All of the team's experience

On location

Shot on the ground: plants, mines, control rooms

We can film your plant the same way, for your site and for distributor materials. The crew comes to you on a separate trip, paid separately.

  • Open-pit mine from the rim
    Open-pit mine from the rim01
  • Worker in protective suit at a bagging line
    Worker in protective suit at a bagging line02
  • Our videographer shooting a control panel wall
    Our videographer shooting a control panel wall03
  • Excavator loading a haul truck in the pit
    Excavator loading a haul truck in the pit04
  • Worker in respirator in front of bulk bags
    Worker in respirator in front of bulk bags05
  • Forklift carrying a bulk bag through a plant hall
    Forklift carrying a bulk bag through a plant hall06
  • Our photographer on a plant walkway
    Our photographer on a plant walkway07
  • Welder crouching in a cloud of smoke
    Welder crouching in a cloud of smoke08

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All frames from our shoots

Journal

How the distributor search works, step by step

A site and social accounts in Russian that a distributor will check you by, plus calls and emails in your name to companies that already carry your category.

  1. 2channels at once: distributors find and check you in search, and we call and write to them in your name. Our method
    Distributors19 September 2026 · 10 min read

    How we find your distributors in Central Asia

    Your future distributor is already in business. The company carries somebody else's product in your category, has a warehouse, sales reps and customers who pay it. It has never heard of you, and you do not yet know which company it is. We look for it from two sides at once: we build a site and social accounts in Russian where it will find and check you, and we call and write ourselves to the companies that already carry your category.

    Read next
All Journal pieces

Discuss your project

Six questions, then a first read from us

We ask which countries you want distributors in, where your company is based, whether you already have partners in the region and when you want to start. We reply within one business day and tell you what is realistic for your product and which format fits it.

Step 1 of 6

Which CIS & Central Asia countries do you want distributors in?

Or write directly

Fastest reply: message us on WhatsApp.

Galina Sorokina, founder

+7 707 039 5167info@artifact-cis.com
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