Epicentr K (Ukrainian: Епіцентр К) is a home improvement hypermarket chain in Ukraine.

[citation needed] In 1994 Oleksandr Hereha and his wife Halyna began to sell the tiles from Poland at markets.

In 2001 following the experience of Castorama's Polish chain it was decided to build a big hardware hypermarket.

The opening was scheduled 6 December at 10:00 however the heating could only be conducted at 3 AM and the ceremony only took place due to the warm weather that winter.

In 2006 it was decided to expand the business to other regions, the first hypermarket outside of Kyiv was opened in Lviv, alongside it the company built the stores in Poltava and Odesa.

In 2009, the company expanded its offerings to include consumer goods in addition to building materials.

[5] That year malls were opened in Uzhhorod, Lviv, Odesa, Luhansk, Cherkasy and Petropavlivska Borshchahivka (Kyiv Oblast).

In October 2013 Epicentr K acquired the controlling stake of Nova Liniia hardware store chain.

In September 2015 Intersport sports goods company became a partner of Epicentr opening their first Ukrainian stores in the hardware malls.

[12] In 2015 the hypermarket chain had bought a closed Alta Center mall in Kyiv and began expanding it.

In July 2016 Epicentr K acquired the control stake of Vinnytsia Agrarian Holding which owns 50 000 ha of land.

In 2018 the company planned to increase the total number of the stores to 53,[16] opening new malls in Mykolaiv, Odesa and Slavuta (Khmelnytskyi Oblast).

[17] In March 2019 the company had bought an unfinished Arsen supermarket in Chervonohrad, Lviv Oblast, and rebuilt it into one of Epicentr K stores.

The company also helps with the construction of the Kyivan Spiritual Academy and participates in a wide variety of sponsorship throughout the country: Gert Goff show commemorated to 750-year anniversary of Lviv, jubilee concerts of Pavlo Zibrov and Valentyna Stepova, and many others.

Mall's security tried to stop him but he struck one of them with an axe, set the fire and ran away, they've chased them down in the yards but began to fight and wounded another guard.