Аннотация:E-commerce, in which all economic actors participate without time and spaceconstraints, is the most basic and leading economic activity of the digital economy.With the rise of the contactless economy caused by COVID-19 in 2020, e-commercehas achieved unprecedented development, and as a result, has facilitated the digitaleconomy.The e-commerce market in Russia is developing at a growth rate higher thanthe global average against the background of an increase in the number of Internetusers, decline in the ruble value, improvement of delivery and logistics systems,expansion of cashless payment, and development of large marketplaces. In 2020,it recorded a remarkable growth rate of 58% per annum, with the increase in onlinetransactions due to measures to prevent the spread of the virus, the increase in onlineorders in the grocery sector, the development of domestic e-commerce comparedto cross-border e-commerce, the increase in online use by the elderly, and onlinesales of pharmaceuticals. That is the impact of COVID-19 on the Russian e-commercemarket. In other words, in Russia, COVID-19 has been an opportunity to promotethe development of e-commerce and furthermore, the digital economy.