Ozon leases 60,000 sqm Moscow warehouse

Ozon has signed one of the larger warehouse leases reported in the Moscow market this year, taking about 60,000 square meters in RBNA’s Shishkin Les logistics complex in New Moscow, according to Russian media reports published on September 8. Vedomosti reported that an Ozon representative confirmed the deal and said the site would operate as a major hub for the company’s delivery network in and around the capital. The lease adds to a year in which Ozon has been expanding logistics capacity despite a softer warehouse market than a year earlier. CRE, citing the company, reported in August that Ozon had already leased 140,000 square meters in two logistics parks in the Moscow region, including 60,000 square meters in Insity Radishchevo for a logistics hub and 80,000 square meters in Nikolskoye-2 for bulky goods. (vedomosti.ru) ### Where exactly is this warehouse, and who owns it? RBNA is the developer behind Shishkin Les, a Class A logistics park in New Moscow. RBNA’s project materials describe Shishkin Les as part of its industrial and warehouse portfolio, and market listings describe the park as positioned for access to the capital and regional highways. Vedomosti said the leased space is in Shishkin Les in New Moscow, while other same-day reports said the agreement with RBNA had already been signed. (cre.ru) Newsroom24 and other republications matched the reported size at about 60,000 square meters. ### Why does Ozon need another large site near Moscow? Ozon has tied its warehouse expansion to order growth. CRE reported that Ozon said its order count rose 83% year on year in the second quarter of 2026, which the company cited as the reason for expanding warehouse capacity in the Moscow region. (rbna.dev) In June, Igor Zimin, Ozon’s vice president for government relations, said the company had opened five large logistics centers since the start of 2026 and planned to commission 10 more by the end of the year. (newsroom24.ru) AK&M reported that those future openings included facilities in the Moscow region as well as St. Petersburg, Leningrad, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar, Perm and Primorsky regions. (cre.ru) ### What will this particular hub do? Vedomosti reported that Ozon said the Shishkin Les facility would be used as a large hub serving almost 14,000 pickup points in Moscow and the Moscow region. That makes the site part of the company’s last-mile and sorting network rather than only a storage asset. Ozon already has a substantial footprint around the capital. (akm.ru) AK&M reported in April that Ozon had opened a new fulfillment center in Vatutinki in New Moscow and that, after that launch, Ozon had more than 10 fulfillment centers in Moscow and the surrounding region with total area above 900,000 square meters. ### How large is this deal in the current warehouse market? (vedomosti.ru) The 60,000-square-meter size puts the lease among the larger single occupier transactions in the market this year, according to the way it was described in Russian coverage. CRE reported that experts valued Ozon’s earlier 60,000-square-meter lease in Insity Radishchevo at 500 million to 570 million rubles a year. Alexander Shevelev, director of industrial and warehouse real estate at Bright Rich | CORFAC International, told CRE that available warehouse space for lease in Moscow and the Moscow region stood at about 1 million square meters in early July, more than double the level a year earlier. (akm.ru) He said the increase in supply was linked to lower business activity, with some companies delaying warehouse expansion until market conditions improved. (cre.ru) ### What comes next for Ozon’s logistics buildout? Ozon said in June that it intended to open 10 more logistics complexes in Russia before the end of 2026, after launching five earlier in the year. AK&M said those planned additions included further capacity in the Moscow region, making the Shishkin Les lease one step in a broader rollout that the company had already mapped out publicly. (akm.ru) (cre.ru)