diff --git a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
index cb5af24755..32c4b8c86e 100644
--- a/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
+++ b/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py
@@ -1622,17 +1622,6 @@ class StoreEbooksGratuitsStore(StoreBase):
 #     affiliate = True
 
 
-class StoreEKnigiStore(StoreBase):
-    name = 'еКниги'
-    author = 'Alex Stanev'
-    description = 'Онлайн книжарница за електронни книги и аудио риалити романи'
-    actual_plugin = 'calibre.gui2.store.stores.eknigi_plugin:eKnigiStore'
-
-    headquarters = 'BG'
-    formats = ['EPUB', 'PDF', 'HTML']
-    affiliate = True
-
-
 class StoreEmpikStore(StoreBase):
     name = 'Empik'
     author = 'Tomasz Długosz'
@@ -1908,7 +1897,6 @@ plugins += [
     StoreEbookpointStore,
     StoreEbookscomStore,
     StoreEbooksGratuitsStore,
-    StoreEKnigiStore,
     StoreEmpikStore,
     StoreFeedbooksStore,
     StoreGoogleBooksStore,
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/eknigi_plugin.py b/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/eknigi_plugin.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f256bff873..0000000000
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/store/stores/eknigi_plugin.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,106 +0,0 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function, unicode_literals
-
-store_version = 1  # Needed for dynamic plugin loading
-
-__license__ = 'GPL 3'
-__copyright__ = '2011, Alex Stanev <alex@stanev.org>'
-__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
-
-import re
-import random
-from contextlib import closing
-try:
-    from urllib.parse import quote
-except ImportError:
-    from urllib import quote
-
-from lxml import html
-
-from PyQt5.Qt import QUrl
-
-from calibre import browser, url_slash_cleaner
-from calibre.gui2 import open_url
-from calibre.gui2.store import StorePlugin
-from calibre.gui2.store.basic_config import BasicStoreConfig
-from calibre.gui2.store.search_result import SearchResult
-from calibre.gui2.store.web_store_dialog import WebStoreDialog
-
-
-class eKnigiStore(BasicStoreConfig, StorePlugin):
-
-    def open(self, parent=None, detail_item=None, external=False):
-        # Use Kovid's affiliate id 30% of the time
-        if random.randint(1, 10) in (1, 2, 3):
-            aff_suffix = '&amigosid=23'
-        else:
-            aff_suffix = '&amigosid=22'
-        url = 'http://e-knigi.net/?' + aff_suffix[1:]
-
-        if external or self.config.get('open_external', False):
-            if detail_item:
-                url = detail_item + aff_suffix
-            open_url(QUrl(url_slash_cleaner(url)))
-        else:
-            detail_url = None
-            if detail_item:
-                url = detail_item + aff_suffix
-            d = WebStoreDialog(self.gui, url, parent, detail_url)
-            d.setWindowTitle(self.name)
-            d.set_tags(self.config.get('tags', ''))
-            d.exec_()
-
-    def search(self, query, max_results=10, timeout=60):
-        # check for cyrillic symbols before performing search
-        uquery = type(u'')(query.strip(), 'utf-8')
-        reObj = re.search(u'^[а-яА-Я\\d\\s]{2,}$', uquery)
-        if not reObj:
-            return
-
-        base_url = 'http://e-knigi.net'
-        url = base_url + '/virtuemart?page=shop.browse&search_category=0&search_limiter=anywhere&keyword=' + quote(query)
-
-        br = browser()
-
-        counter = max_results
-        with closing(br.open(url, timeout=timeout)) as f:
-            doc = html.fromstring(f.read())
-
-            # if the store finds only one product, it opens directly detail view
-            for data in doc.xpath('//div[@class="prod_details"]'):
-                s = SearchResult()
-                s.cover_url = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="vm_main_info clearfix"]/div[@class="lf"]/a/img/@src')).strip()
-                s.title = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="vm_main_info clearfix"]/div[@class="lf"]/a/img/@alt')).strip()
-                s.author = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@class="td_bg clearfix"]/div[@class="gk_product_tab"]/div/table/tr[3]/td[2]/text()')).strip()
-                s.price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//span[@class="productPrice"]/text()')).strip()
-                s.detail_item = url
-                s.drm = SearchResult.DRM_UNLOCKED
-
-                yield s
-                return
-
-            # search in store results
-            for data in doc.xpath('//div[@class="browseProductContainer"]'):
-                if counter <= 0:
-                    break
-                id = ''.join(data.xpath('.//a[1]/@href')).strip()
-                if not id:
-                    continue
-
-                title = ''.join(data.xpath('.//a[@class="gk_vm_product_image"]/img/@title')).strip()
-                author = ''.join(data.xpath('.//div[@style="float:left;width:90%"]/b/text()')).strip().replace('Автор: ', '')
-
-                if title.lower().find(query.lower()) == -1 and author.lower().find(query.lower()) == -1:
-                    continue
-
-                counter -= 1
-
-                s = SearchResult()
-                s.cover_url = ''.join(data.xpath('.//a[@class="gk_vm_product_image"]/img/@src')).strip()
-                s.title = title
-                s.author = author
-                s.price = ''.join(data.xpath('.//span[@class="productPrice"]/text()')).strip()
-                s.detail_item = base_url + id
-                s.drm = SearchResult.DRM_UNLOCKED
-
-                yield s