The pandemic has affected almost all spheres of life of modern civilization. One of the technological forms of overcoming this global problem is digitalization, which is a window of opportunity to get out of the crisis. Society had to quickly rebuild itself in the conditions of the compression of traditional markets, the replacement of a number of professions with automated systems, and the growth of cybercrime. In responding to these challenges, the issues of digital economy analysis presented in this study come to the fore. o study the development of the digital economy, the following quantitative indicators were selected: the proportion of organizations using digital technologies, the number of personal computers in the surveyed organizations, including those with access to global information networks, the proportion of organizations using the Internet, data on the use of information and communication technologies in organizations by type of economic activity, the proportion of organizations using special software, as well as data on the use of information and communication technologies in organizations by collective classification groupings of economic activities. As a result, it was revealed that Russia lags behind the leading countries in terms of the level of development of the information society and the digital economy. The most popular digital technologies turned out to be cloud services, which relieve companies from the need to create their own digital infrastructure for data storage. The tendency of reduction of personal computers by organizations and the share of enterprises using software has been revealed, which indicates the predominantly remote nature of work during the pandemic. The importance of investing in the installation of specialized software and training personnel to work with software and digital literacy is noted. The coronavirus pandemic as a whole has helped Russian companies to begin restructuring their business organization towards digitalization. Institutions that ensure the development of the Russian digital economy are encouraged in almost all government programs and activities aimed at improving information and communication technologies and creating conditions for the use of digital services in business.

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