Wildberries has rented a logistics park in Krasnoyarsk

20.08.2025

The Wildberries marketplace has closed a major deal in the warehouse market. The company has rented over 40,000 sq. m of space near Krasnoyarsk.

The premises will cost it 500 million rubles annually. The space will be used as a distribution center to expand its presence in Siberia. The main development focus for marketplaces now is small towns.

The online retailer Wildberries has closed a deal to rent a 41.4 thousand sq. m logistics park in Yemelyanovsky district near Krasnoyarsk, stated a Kommersant’s (Ъ) source in the real estate market. According to the source, the agreement term is five years. Sergei Molodov, the commercial director of the project’s general contractor, Megastroy, and the deal’s consultant, CORE.XP, confirmed this information without disclosing the deal’s details. Wildberries clarified that the new space will be used as a sorting center.

Igor Krotenkov, the director of the warehouse and industrial premises department at IBC Real Estate, says the rental rate for Wildberries’ new facility in Krasnoyarsk is 12,000 rubles per sq. m per year. Based on this estimate, the facility will cost 500 million rubles annually.

Wildberries — is the largest marketplace in Russia. Its founder and key owner is Tatyana Kim. The platform’s turnover in 2024 amounted to 4.1 trillion rubles. Wildberries’ portfolio currently includes 4 million sq. m of logistics space. According to NF Group, in 2025, the marketplace will independently deliver 2.2 million sq. m of new warehouse facilities and it has become the largest developer in the industrial segment this year.

Wildberries is currently building its own 200,000 sq. m logistics park in Krasnoyarsk, with investments estimated at 10 billion rubles. Renting space during the construction period is linked to the need to meet short-term space requirements, says Konstantin Fomichenko, a partner at NF Group. Igor Krotenkov does not rule out that the facilities will serve different purposes. An owned fulfillment center is needed for storing goods, while the rented logistics park is for their distribution before shipment to pickup points. Sergei Molodov believes that retail market participants are now generally count on development in the regions. He notes that due to this, high potential for warehouse development exists also in the Ural and Siberia. This year, 56% of the total demand for warehouse space from online operators came from regions; in traditional retail, the figure is higher at 78%, says Mr. Krotenkov.

The expansion of logistics infrastructure in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation allows marketplaces to cover not only regional centers but also small towns, where the penetration rate of online trade is still low, says Viktor Zaglumin, a partner at Bright Rich | CORFAC International. The population in these towns, according to him, is not always ready for major purchases but actively spends money on consumer goods. In the first quarter of 2025, regions generated over 76% of all online sales, as it was previously noted by the Association of Internet Trade Companies. According to IBC Real Estate, from January to August 2025, a total of 0.9 million sq. m of warehouse space was sold or rented to online operators in Russia. Year-on-year, this indicator decreased by 63%. The decline is linked to the moderated activity of marketplaces: after two years of record-high demand, their activity is stabilizing, consultants believe.

Igor Krotenkov assumes that in the next three years, marketplaces will be focused on setting processes at the newly acquired facilities and will slow down the pace of portfolio expansion.

Text: Daria Andrianova, photo: Evgeny Razumny. Kommersant

Source: https://www.kommersant.ru