Russia’s Largest Online Retailer Tests Drone Delivery
Wildberries Completes a Complex Multi-Stop Route Using a Domestic UAV System
Russia’s biggest online marketplace, Wildberries, has begun testing autonomous drone delivery using domestically developed aviation systems. The first flights took place in St. Petersburg with the support of the city’s Transport Committee and the Federal Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems.
During the trial, a certified Russian drone launched from the company’s logistics hub in Shushary, successfully completing a multi-stop delivery route. The UAV delivered a package from the sorting center to a Wildberries pickup point on Polevaya Street before automatically returning to the warehouse — a full end-to-end demonstration of unmanned logistics in an urban environment.
Expanding Delivery to Remote Regions
Wildberries currently operates over 83,000 pickup points across Russia — a number that has grown by 50% in 2024 alone. The company’s experiment reflects a broader push within Russian e-commerce toward automation and last-mile innovation, particularly for remote and sparsely populated regions where conventional delivery is costly and time-consuming.
