The pseudo-Italian brand Carlo Pazolini has closed its last store in Ukraine

The Carlo Pazolini footwear and accessories chain has closed its last store in Ukraine. This was brought to the attention of the publication NV.

"Our stores in Ukraine have ceased operations," the Carlo Pazolini contact center told the publication.

This decision was influenced by "many factors," they added, without specifying which ones. At the same time, the website of the Carlo Pazolini online store is working, and the goods can be ordered.

One of the last Ukrainian stores of the retailer with Russian roots was located in Kyiv at 19 Beresteysky Avenue. As of October 26, 2025, it is closed.

Carlo Pazolini opened its first store in Ukraine in 1997, and as of October 2012, the chain had 21 stores in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Vinnytsia and Rivne. In May 2017, the number of Carlo Pazolini stores in Ukraine decreased to 16.

Until 2015, Carlo Pazolini was developed in Ukraine by the legal entity Carlo Pazolini Trading LLC, which declared bankruptcy in July 2016. Eight years later, the legal entity was liquidated.

In 2015, a new company, Det Group LLC, was founded. In February 2025, the Economic Court of Rivne Region declared Det Group LLC bankrupt and began liquidation proceedings.

As of October 2025, the company proposes to transfer payment for the selected goods in the online store to the sole proprietorship of Maria Stepanovna Vynnychuk, registered in November 2022.

The Russian brand with the Italian name Carlo Pazolini was founded in 1991 by automotive engineer Ilya Reznik. At first, he imported shoes, and four years after the company was founded, he opened the first branded store.

Over 20 years of work, the businessman has built a successful business, opening about 200 stores in eleven countries, including Russia, Italy, the United Kingdom, China, Greece, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Ukraine and the United States.

At the first stages, about 70% of the shoes were produced at the company's own factory near Moscow, and the remaining 30% were supplied mainly from China. However, after 2007, due to rising production costs, most of Carlo Pazolini's shoes were produced in Chinese factories.

Carlo Pazolini is one of the few Russian retailers that managed to keep its Ukrainian asset after the bankruptcy of the Russian parent office. Read more about this in the article LIGA.net.

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