This article contains research about the phenomenon of digital inequality among
different social groups in Russia. The short literature review, conducted in it,
concerns the factors, which have an impact on the rise and spread of digital
inequality. The types of digital inequality have been analyzed, and each of them
has the relative digital divide indicators calculated. It has been revealed, that the
digital divide in terms of the Internet and information and communications
technology access between the rural and urban population has been decreased,
however the divide in terms of digital skills has been increased. There is almost
no digital divide in ICT among the middle-aged groups, and it is constantly
decreasing. Although the digital divide among the older-aged groups is also growing
down, it is still high, and the divide in digital skills remains unchanged. It is
noted, that the country’s territory in length objectively increases the IT infrastructure
costs, hampers providing for the high-quality internet-connection for the rural
people and is the reason for digital divide in terms of Internet-access.