Wildberries In Belarus Panicked

The test at the Minsk warehouse has dragged on for far too long.

It is now past the middle of 2026, the date originally scheduled for official launch of the Wildberries logistics warehouse near Minsk. There’s a reason for the silence: following the closure of the facility in Elektrostal, this is now the marketplace’s second-largest complex in terms of capacity, writes "Belarusians and the Market".

Tatyana Bakalchuk herself tested its operations back in May of this year and gave the go-ahead for the launch. As the media reported at the time, it was in the “final stage of implementation and had already begun operating in test mode.”

There have been no official announcements regarding the opening of a warehouse on the grounds of the “Velikiy Kamen” industrial park. However, given the situation surrounding the marketplace’s logistics infrastructure in Russia—where Ukrainian drone strikes have knocked out over 15% of Wildberries’ capacity—it makes sense not to draw any attention to this facility at all.

After all, it is this facility that is taking on a significant portion of the operational capacity that Wildberries lost in Russia. Tatyana Bakalchuk invested 11 billion Russian rubles in her largest Belarusian complex and acquired a 140,000-square-meter facility on 27 hectares.

Before the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) began attacking Wildberries’ infrastructure, the Belarusian hub was second in capacity only to the complexes in Kaledino (over 200,000 square meters) and Elektrostal (155,000 square meters). After the warehouse in Elektrostal was destroyed, it became the second-largest. However, given the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on the complex in Kaledino (which was unsuccessful), following the next attempt, the Belarusian facility may well become Wildberries’ main logistics warehouse.

The warehouse in Belarus is classified as “A+” and can ship up to 1.5 million units of goods per day. Its total storage capacity exceeds 50 million items.

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