The company was created in 1994 as a result of the
corporatization of the Soviet subscription and retail trading monopoly agency
Soyuzpechat (). In 2002, the company was acquired from the workforce by the
Basic Element holding, controlled at that time by
Oleg Deripaska and
Roman Abramovich, the transaction amount was estimated at $27–35 million, and the former deputy general director of GAZ, Svetlana Sokolova, was appointed head of the agency. In the mid-2000s, Basic Element included Rospechat in its structure. On June 30, 2015, Basic Element ceased to be the
controlling shareholder, and the main owner of Rospechat became Pavel Ezubov, the cousin of Oleg Deripaska and the son of State Duma deputy
Alexey Yezubov, who became the beneficiary of a Cypriot offshore holding more than 80% of the company's shares. As of the mid-2010s, Rospechat had about 4 thousand kiosks in
19 regions of Russia, the company also maintained a subscription catalog and organized the traditional form of subscription to periodicals through the
Russian Post. In 2021 it was published that Rospechat decided to exit the kiosk's market, transferred all its regional assets to other distributors with about 500 of the 2,000 retail outlets were transferred to a company called Antares while some of them were purchased and some were leased. ==See also==