Lenta, Russia's largest hypermarket chain and third largest retail chain, has 233 hypermarkets and 112 supermarkets across 84 cities in the country, with a total selling space of 1,402,428 sq.m. Founded in St. Petersburg in 1993, Lenta's hypermarkets have an average selling space of 5,600 sq.m and supermarkets have an average space of 900 sq.m. The company also owns seven distribution centers.