MOSCOW SHOPPING

GUM

DESCRIPTION

GUM (pronounced [ˈɡ um], an abbreviation of Russian: Гл áвныйуниверс áльныймагазѝн, tr. Glávnyj Universá ĺnyj Magazín literally "main universal store") With the façade extending for 242 m. along the eastern side of , the Upper Trading Rows (GUM) were built between 1890 and 1893 by Alexander Pomerantsev (responsible for architecture) and (responsible for engineering). The trapezoidal building features a combination of elements of Russian medieval architecture and a steel framework and glass roof, a similar style to the great 19th-century railway stations of . William Craft Brumfield described the GUM building as "a tribute both to Shukhov's design and to the technical proficiency of toward the end of the 19th century”.

The glass-roofed design made the building unique at the time of construction. The roof, the diameter of which is 14 m., looks light, but it is a firm construction made of more than 50,000 metal pods (about 819 short tons (743 t), capable of supporting snowfall accumulation. Illumination is provided by huge arched skylights of iron and glass, each weighing some 820 short tons (740 t) and containing in excess of 20,000 panes of glass. The facade is divided into several horizontal tiers, lined with red Finnish granite, Tarusa marble, and limestone. Each is on three levels, linked by walkways of reinforced concrete.

LOCATION Location : Red Square, 3 How to get from the dormitory: By metro : Metro's Orange line to the Kitay-Gorod Station, then walk 800 meters. Time to get : 36 min. WORKING HOURS Everyday from 10 am to 10 pm. PRICES Very expensive. It’s more museum than shop center. Eliseevskiy DESCRIPTION "Elisseevskiy" - shop-museum in in a historic building on the corner of Tverskaya Street and Kozitskogo alley. Opened by a merchant Grigory Eliseev in 1901, immediately became the center of public attention for luxurious interiors, exotic food and rare wines.

LOCATION Location : Tverskaya st., 14 How to get from the dormitory: By metro : to the Tverskaya Station, then walk190 meters. Time to get : 36 min. WORKING HOURS 24/7.

PRICES Very expensive. It’s more museum than shop.

Petrovsky passage DESCRIPTION Petrovsky Passage is an elite department store opened on in downtown Moscow in 1906. The engineer Vladimir Shukhov, also responsible for the GUM and the Shabolovka tower, designed a covered arcade with two wide three-storey galleries covered with high-pitched semi-cylindrical glass vaulting. The second storeys of opposite galleries are connected by exquisitely designed ferroconcrete catwalks. In the 1990s, the shop was revamped as the centre of one of the most expensive shopping areas in .

LOCATION Location : Petrovka st., 10 How to get from the dormitory: By metro : to the Kuznetskiy most Station, then walk480 meters. Time to get : 39 min. WORKING HOURS Monday-Saturday: 10 am – 10 pm Sunday: 10 am – 8 pm PRICES Expensive.

Tsum DESCRIPTION TsUM — Central Universal Department Store is one of the most renowned high enddepartment stores in Moscow. In 1857 merchants Andrew Muir (1817–1899) and Archibald Mirrielees (1797–1877), who had arrived in St. Petersburg separately, founded “Muir and Mirrielees” Trade Company. Archibald Mirrielees was resident in St. Petersburg from 1822. In 1843 he established his own company, one of the most significant Anglo-Russian merchant houses. In the 1880s the company transferred from St. Petersburg to Moscow and acquired a building for their haberdashery shop in . Their new building was erected there in 1908 in the Gothic Revival style with some modern elements. The project was designed by the famous Russian architect Roman Klein. The store is in a six-story historical Gothic Revival style building on Petrovka Street at Theatre Square (Teatralnaya Square) in the of central Moscow. The TsUM interiors have been refurbished many times, most recently in 2007.

LOCATION Location : Petrovka st., 2 How to get from the dormitory: By metro : to the Kitay Grorod Station, then walk1.1km. Time to get : 40 min. WORKING HOURS Monday-Saturday: 10 am – 10 pm Sunday: 11 am – 10 pm PRICES Expensive.

Aviapark

DESCRIPTION The biggest shopping mall in Europe. It was opened in 2014, total area 390,000 sq. meters.

LOCATION Location : Khodinskiy Boulevard, 4 How to get from the dormitory: By metro : to the Dinamo Station, then byfree bus to Aviapark. Time to get : 58 min. WORKING HOURS Sunday-Thursday From 10 am to 10 pm. Friday-Saturday From 10 am to 11 pm. PRICES Average. Gagarinskiy DESCRIPTION Shopping mall near the dormitories, where you can buy food, clothes and other stuff. Also there is food court where you can eat, there you can taste everyday Russian cuisine.

LOCATION Location : Vavilova St., 3 How to get from the dormitory: Walking 700 m. Time to get : 8 min. WORKING HOURS Shops and food court: 9 am – 10 pm Ashan (supermaret): 8:30 am – 11 pm PRICES Average.