Yandex Acquires Boxberry to Expand Delivery Network Across Russia

Posted by By Dan Taylor 2 Min Read

Yandex has announced the acquisition of Boxberry, a move aimed at expanding its delivery and e-commerce services across Russia.

The deal will allow Yandex to grow its customer base and enter over 20 new regions, including Siberia and the Far East. This expansion includes new pick-up points and increased coverage for Yandex Delivery services.

Integration of Logistics Infrastructure

Boxberry’s logistics infrastructure will be merged into Yandex’s existing systems. This integration will boost Yandex’s ability to manage and scale its delivery network.

Customers of Boxberry will gain access to Yandex’s platform features, including more than 60 sorting centers currently operated by the company. This will help streamline operations and improve efficiency in package handling and delivery.

More Delivery Options for Customers

The partnership will expand the range of delivery methods available to Boxberry users. New options include courier express delivery and intra-city deliveries.

Yandex will also apply its technology to optimize delivery routes and costs. Its platform uses real-time supply and demand data to calculate delivery times and prices more accurately.

Integration Timeline and Team Continuity

Yandex expects the full technical and operational integration to be completed by the end of 2025. The current Boxberry team will remain and continue developing logistics services under the Yandex brand.

Broader Yandex Developments

This acquisition follows other recent updates from Yandex, including a major upgrade to its voice assistant, Alice. The assistant can now reason, manage files, recognize objects through a smartphone camera, and speak fluent English.

Yandex’s purchase of Boxberry marks another step in its strategy to strengthen its position in logistics and e-commerce throughout Russia.

Source: Yandex press release
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Dan Taylor is the founder and editor of International Search Insights (ISI), the publication behind ReadIsi, and a Partner and Head of Innovation (Search & AI) at SALT.agency. He has worked in search for more than a decade, in-house and agency-side, and is regarded as one of the West’s leading voices on search engines beyond Google, including Yandex, Baidu, Naver and Cốc Cốc. On ReadIsi, Dan covers the engines and AI answer platforms that English-language coverage tends to miss: Baidu and ERNIE, Yandex and Alice AI, Naver, Cốc Cốc, Shenma, Sogou, WeChat and Weibo search, plus DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen. He also keeps dated records of documented changes, such as the Yandex, Baidu and Naver algorithm update histories and the DeepSeek, ERNIE and Qwen model update histories. His approach is to take learnings from global search engines and apply logic with a high evidence threshold. A claim needs a source, patterns seen in one market are treated as a hypothesis until they are checked in another, and where the evidence is thin he says so. For brands, that means advice built on what can be shown, with measurement that separates being cited from being chosen. Dan is credited with coining the term “edge SEO” and won the inaugural TechSEO Boost research competition in 2018 for his work on CDN and edge changes for SEO. In 2026 he was credited with coining “Infinite Tail” to describe how keyword research is changing with AI search. He is the author of AI Search Marketing For The Travel Sector, writes for Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land and Travel Marketing Guy, and has advised technology, SaaS, travel and enterprise ecommerce brands, including Cloudflare, GitLab and Airbnb. He has given multiple talks and panels at the International Search Summit in Barcelona, and has also spoken at Optimization Moscow, brightonSEO, Google Search Central Live Deep Dive Asia in Bangkok, Athens SEO and the Asia SEO Virtual Summit 2026, where his talk looked at how Baidu, Naver, DeepSeek, Tencent, Cốc Cốc and Yandex built their own AI answers.
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