Global Vkontakte User Dataset

Online Social Networks enable individuals to present a version of themselves to their immediate social circle and beyond. Those presentations express cultural factors such as an individuals gender, location, political, philosophical and religions values. Obtaining such data; however, is often challenging on the aggregate level as it typically involves negotiations with private entities and ownership restrictions. This study presents a dataset of 563,615,517 user accounts from the platform Vkontakte, an online social network collected in June of 2020. Vkontakte is a social media platform similar in nature to Facebook that allows individuals to connect with other users, communicate with them through public and private messages, as well as create public personas of themselves. This dataset can be used to perform cross-national and cross-cultural analyses of online culture from a large proportion of the world.