Most of the cafes, 90 of 130, will provide service in Moscow, about 15 of them in Russia's second-largest city Saint Petersburg, and the rest in other regions -- Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Kazan, and Sochi.
At the end of July, Russian businessmen Timur Yunusov and Anton Pinsky purchased Russia's Starbucks chain, after the US owners announced their decision to leave the market due to the Russia-Ulraine war that started on Feb. 24.
The first Starbucks cafe opened in Russia in 2007, and by 2022, over 100 cafes operated across the country.
