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Pharmacy Network 36.6 is a Russian pharmacy chain. Its full name is Public Joint Stock Company "Pharmacy Network 36.6". The headquarters are in Moscow.

History
The network was created in the late 1990s by Sergey Krivosheev and Artem Bektemirov, who worked in the pharmaceutical distribution company Vremya. They decided to apply modern retail technology (branding, product matrix, CTM, open layout) to the then chaotic pharmacy market. In 2000, the international consulting company MSKinsey was involved in the development of the concept.

Until 2008, 36.6 actively bought up regional players and opened new points. In 2005, pharmacy chains were acquired in Volgograd (“Good Neighbor”), Dmitrov (“Mega-style”), Novosibirsk (“Pharmacy Trading House”), Perm (“Health Cup”), Samara (“Nebolit”), St. Petersburg (“Orange” and “Tablet”) and Sarov (“Dr. Zelenkin”). In January 2006, the transaction for the acquisition of the pharmacy chain "Pharmacy" ("Perm Pharmacies") in the Perm Territory was completed. In 2006, 18 chains of 352 pharmacies were purchased and 75 new outlets opened. During 2007, 26 networks from 293 locations were purchased, and 166 more were opened organically. In July 2007, a thousandth pharmacy opened in Nizhny Novgorod.

At the beginning of 2009, 36.6 had 1,084 pharmacies. In the same year, the company began to get rid of unprofitable points. In 2009, 131 pharmacies were closed and only 23 opened.

As of March 2009, Pharmacy Network 36.6 also controlled 51.8% of the shares of Veropharm pharmaceutical company, which was one of the five largest Russian pharmaceutical manufacturers. Veropharm owned three pharmaceutical plants in Belgorod, Voronezh and Pokrov. At the end of August 2013, Veropharm shares were sold for 5 billion rubles to Garden Hills, controlled by the owner of the Moscow Credit Bank Roman Avdeev.

In early 2010, it was announced that 25% of the company's shares had been sold to a major Russian wholesaler of medicines, SIA International. As of April 1, 2010, the company operated 1004 pharmacies in 29 regions of the Russian Federation, 11 stores of educational toys for children "Early Learning Centre (ELC)" (JV on a parity basis with a British company), 14 optics stores, as well as 21 optics departments located inside pharmacies. In 2010, 45 pharmacies closed and 15 opened.

The global economic crisis of 2012-2013 significantly undermined the company’s position, and the financial results of 36.6 operations deteriorated sharply.

In early 2013, negotiations on merger with the A5 network began, but they were suspended due to a merger deal with the A.v.e. network (pharmacies A.v.e. and Gorzdrav) that began in the same year. The deal with A.v.e. was closed in 2015.

In 2014, the Russian business of the Finnish company “Oriola KD” (brands “Old Healer” and “03”) joined the “36.6”.

In April 2016, the world's largest pharmacy ret