Amsterdam is the capital and most big city in the Netherlands. The area of ​​the city is 219.07 km2. A map of Amsterdam shows that the city has largely retained its 16th-century layout. The city is located at the mouth of the rivers Hey and Amstel, and is also connected by a canal to the North Sea.

Today Amsterdam is the cultural and financial capital of the country. The city is home to numerous headquarters of large companies and organizations, such as Phillips and Greenpeace. The main sectors of the economy are mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. The city is home to the world's first stock exchange. Amsterdam is widely known as the center of the diamond trade.

Historical background

The first mention of Amsterdam dates back to 1275. By the 15th century the city became the largest shopping center countries. In 1578 the city belonged to the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. In 1795 it became the capital of the Batavian Republic. From 1795 to 1813 the city was occupied by the French. Since 1814, Amsterdam has been the capital of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

First world war the country remained neutral. From 1940 to 1945 the city was occupied by German troops.

Must Visit

A detailed map of Amsterdam in Russian shows that the historical center is dotted with a semi-radial system of canals. Along the canals there are “dancing” houses - twisted and rickety. The canals are filled with houseboats.

It is recommended to visit Dam Square, Royal Palace, Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, NEMO Science Museum, Damrak Street and Madame Tussauds. It is worth seeing the main station building, the Coin Tower, the national monument, the Hermitage on the Amstel, the Church of St. Nicholas and the Montelbanstoren tower.

Amsterdam is very popular among tourists because of its red light district and coffee shops where you can buy soft drugs.

Yuri Shishkin spoke about doing business with partners from Amsterdam and asked IT specialists from Russia about moving, living and working in this city. He also calculated the cost of living in the Netherlands.

When moving abroad, Russian specialists often prefer innovative US companies or dynamically growing Asian brands, and from European countries they choose the UK and Germany, leaving quiet Holland with its measured life only for tourist trips.

Amsterdam. Photo: citiesipcc.org

In vain: the labor market in the Netherlands has a great need for IT industry professionals. Few of them graduate from local universities, and employers often invite programmers or designers from abroad. For this reason, many companies here are international: you can meet people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, and Armenia.

How we established connections with Amsterdam

Four years ago, our agency developed a service for LG Electronics that linked a product card in the manufacturer’s online catalog with the retailer’s website. To do this, we used the Yandex.Market API, but later decided to develop our own platform and closed access to the API.

Having studied foreign solutions, we discovered that the Dutch company Hatch has an analogue. We held a meeting in Moscow and eventually became Hatch’s official partner for the implementation of the Where to buy service in Russia.

Different corporate culture

Every time I come to Hatch, I notice different features of the company's work.

Hatch CEO Joris Kroese, technical director 24ttl Vitaly Klimov and Yuri Shishkin at the Hatch office in Amsterdam

For example, the level of order. All important meetings and calls here are held exclusively according to the calendar, the team uses the corporate one. Drawing up contracts, invoicing and maintaining other important documentation is fully automated using various tools, for example, the document management service PandaDoc and CRM HubSpot.

But what is most surprising is how much attention our Dutch partner pays to building connections within the team. Management always strives to keep the team informed of what is happening, using the most unusual means for this, for example, visualizing work progress. Let's say a company has set a goal to conclude 10 contracts. To show how this process moves, they put it in the office plastic pipe and put colored balls in it. When it's full, they'll be sure to celebrate with a cold Heineken.

Celebrating your successes is generally an important point in the work of Dutch companies. In Russia this is much less developed: sometimes half the office doesn’t even know that the company won the tender, received an award, or was included in the rating.

In general, it is pleasant to do business with the Dutch - they are attentive to their partners, approaching relationships almost the same way as B2C: they keep the history of relationships, record all agreements. There is a lot of respect in this.

During my next trip to Amsterdam, I talked with several IT specialists from - they talked about how they moved and how they work here.

Evgeniy, 41 years old, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Payconiq

St. Petersburg - Antwerp - Amsterdam

I've been developing since 1999. Until 2012 he lived in St. Petersburg and collaborated with both large companies, and with startups, I even managed to work for the Pension Fund. In 2005 I got a job at international company Alcatel-Lucent and began to frequently travel on business trips to Europe, where he set his sights on his first relocation point - the Belgian Antwerp. Alcatel-Lucent had a branch there, and they practically transferred me: they issued a visa, paid for and organized the transportation of things, and provided me with housing for the first time.

Antwerp, view of the central square and the Scheldt river. Photo: ptpcycle-europe.eu

I spent about three years in Antwerp, after which I realized that it was too small for me (only 250 thousand inhabitants). Amsterdam, with a similar level of comfort and friendliness, but with 3 times the population, seemed more lively and dynamic to me, and I moved there - first to work at BackBase, and then to Hatch.

Hatch had an unusual international team: an IT architect from Ukraine, a frontend developer from Moscow, a UI/UX designer from Armenia, and me, a senior backend developer from St. Petersburg. At that time, the company also employed specialists from Greece, Australia, France, and Great Britain.

There is a stereotype that the Dutch are very straightforward and always say what they think. But I would not say that in this they are somehow different from the Russians. It is quite comfortable to work with them - unlike, for example, the British, whom, in my opinion, are much more difficult for Russians to understand.

The corporate culture here is based on an informal approach: management does not isolate itself from employees, everyone goes on vacation together, and holds beer parties on Fridays. A cool feature at Hatch was voting for the best colleague of the week. The winner received an envelope with some kind of prize: time off for a couple of hours, a flyer for free pizza, etc.

Arseniy, 37 years old, director of technology strategy (Enterprise Architect), BinckBank

St. Petersburg - Amsterdam

My education has nothing to do with what I have been doing for the last 15 years. I am an Ethiopianist by profession, graduated from the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University, but as soon as I had access to the Internet, I started making websites. His passion for computers grew into work, then into his own business and projects for companies in the USA, Great Britain and continental Europe.

In 2014, I got a client who changed my life - the Dutch startup Pritle, which automated the management of investments in stock markets. They needed a specialist to manage development, architecture and all things related to technology. So in 2015, my family and I moved to Amsterdam. The decision was difficult, but quick.

Port of Amsterdam. Photo: Unsplash

Within six months, three more colleagues from St. Petersburg joined my team. Getting a work visa for this is very easy. You need to prove to the IND (Immigration and Naturalization Service) that the company is innovative and not easy to hire the right people in the Netherlands. The process is devoid of bureaucracy and goes very quickly: a week to submit an application and about two more weeks to receive a residence permit.

After a couple of years of the startup, my colleagues and I realized that we had exhausted the growth opportunities, and moved under the wing of the online broker BinckBank, where I am responsible for strategy at the level of the bank itself.

Holland is a terribly socialist country. If you have a permanent contract, it is almost impossible to fire you. Maybe that’s why the Dutch are not the most hard-working nation in the world; I have hardly met any workaholics. It is very important for them to have hobbies, spend time with family, and play sports. That is, living fully is more important than working.

Dutch is difficult to learn because everyone in Amsterdam speaks English. But the Dutch from the hinterland are no less shocked than foreign tourists by such metropolitan phenomena as coffee shops and the red light district.

After five years of living in Holland, you can pass a simple language exam and apply for either citizenship (you will have to renounce Russian citizenship) or a permanent residence permit. Both are given almost unconditionally, if you have not had fines of more than 800 euros in the last three years.

Vadim, 33 years old, senior web developer, online auction Catawiki

Moscow - Amsterdam

I am an engineer by training computing systems, I have been professionally engaged in web development since 2006. I always traveled a lot and never gave up the idea of ​​living in another country. At the same time, I studied English and signed up for Skype interviews with Western companies.

In 2015, the events in Crimea, the collapse of the ruble and the wave of jingoism gave me the impetus to change the situation. At the same time, my close friend left to work in Spain. All this convinced me that it was time to pack my suitcase.

Despite the fact that I lived in Moscow for almost 10 years and worked in a comfortable position in, I started sending out my resume. Initially, I set my sights on Berlin because I’ve been there many times and love this city very much, but on the advice of a friend I applied for a vacancy in the Netherlands.

I passed a test task and a series of interviews, flew to a personal meeting - and now I have been working at Catawiki for more than two years.

Our team consists of almost one hundred people, distributed between two offices: in Amsterdam and in Assen, the capital of the province of Drenthe in the north-east of the country. We have an international composition: in addition to the Dutch, there are employees from Italy, Greece, Russia, Belarus, Armenia - in total there are about 40-odd nationalities. There are a lot of guys from the CIS, and they are all very cool.

The first thing you pay attention to when working in a Dutch company is the management structure. Here it is horizontal not only in words: you can quite realistically approach the CEO or the head of a department and express your idea, doubts or ask a question.

Salaries and cost of living in the Netherlands

• The average salary required to obtain Kennismigrant (highly skilled immigrant) status and move to the country legally is €4,756.32 per month for people over 30 and €3,487.32 for people under 30.
• Experienced professionals earn approximately €55,000–60,000 per year. If you have any special skills, knowledge and experience, the annual income can reach €90,000. On average, the salary range is between €35,000 and €85,000.

• At high salaries Taxes in the Netherlands are quite high - up to 40%. However, a pleasant bonus is provided for visiting highly qualified specialists - a 30% tax deduction, that is, the opportunity not to pay taxes on a third of their income during the first 8 years of work here. However, now they want to reduce this period to 5 years.
• The cost of renting a one-room apartment in the center of Amsterdam or an inexpensive two-room apartment on the outskirts starts from €1,600 per month + utilities.
• Among the mandatory expenses (for all residents of the Netherlands over 18 years of age) is health insurance, which entitles you to a free visit to a family doctor (Huisarts, actually a local general practitioner) and a fairly wide range of medical services. It costs about €100 per month.

Bar SkyLounge Amsterdam. Photo: skyloungeamsterdam.com

• An average dinner with wine in a capital restaurant costs about €35–40, a glass of beer in a bar costs from €4 to €7, a movie ticket costs €12. By the way, new films, as a rule, are shown in cinemas on English with Dutch subtitles.
• Mobile communication - €35 per month with unlimited traffic in the Netherlands and 10GB in Europe. Home Internet and TV - from €45 per month.

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Amsterdam. Yandex map.

Allows you to: change the scale; measure distances; switch display modes - diagram, satellite view, hybrid. The Yandex maps mechanism is used, it contains: districts, street names, house numbers and other objects of cities and large villages, allows you to perform search by address(square, avenue, street + house number, etc.), for example: “Lenin street 3”, “Amsterdam hotels”, etc.

If you don't find something, try the section Google satellite map: Amsterdam or a vector map from OpenStreetMap: Amsterdam.

Link to the object you selected on the map can be sent by e-mail, icq, sms or posted on the website. For example, to show a meeting place, delivery address, location of a store, cinema, train station, etc.: combine the object with the marker in the center of the map, copy the link on the left above the map and send it to the recipient - according to the marker in the center, he will determine the location you specified .

Amsterdam - online map with satellite view: streets, houses, districts and other objects.

To change the scale, use the mouse scroll wheel, the “+ -” slider on the left, or the “Zoom in” button in the upper left corner of the map; to view a satellite view or a people's map, select the appropriate menu item in the upper right corner; to measure the distance, click the ruler at the bottom right and plot the points on the map.

Here is a map of Amsterdam with streets → province of North Holland, the Netherlands. We study a detailed map of Amsterdam with houses and streets. Search in real time, weather today, coordinates

More details about the streets of Amsterdam on the map

A detailed map of the city of Amsterdam with street names and villages will be able to show all the routes and roads of the province of North Holland, where the street is located. Damstraat, what country, the outskirts of the capital. Located nearby.

To view the entire area in detail, just change the scale online schemes+/-. On the page there is an interactive map of the city of Amsterdam (Netherlands) with addresses and routes of the region, with directions of movement. Move its center to find Amstelstraat now.

The ability to plot a route across the country and calculate the distance using the “Ruler” tool, find out the length of the city and the path to the center, addresses of attractions in the region, transport stops and hospitals (type of “Hybrid” diagram), see train stations and borders of the province of North Holland.

What to see:

1. Anne Frank House Museum
2. Vondelpark
3. Rembrandt art museum
4. Amsterdam Zoo
5. Royal Palace
6. Gothic church Oude Kerk
7. Hermitage on Amstel

You will find all the necessary detailed information about the location of the city infrastructure - stations and shops, squares and banks, highways and highways, metro stations.

An accurate satellite map of Amsterdam (Amsterdam) in Russian with Google search is in its own section, panoramas as well. Use Yandex search to show the desired house on a city map of the Netherlands/world, in real time. . St. Kerkstraat will help you find your way around.

Coordinates - 52.3614,4.9055