✨ Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)

The country's largest children's store, in a 1957 building with an atrium and a rooftop viewing platform.

The building was built in 1953–1957 to a design by Alexey Dushkin on the site of the demolished Lubyansky Passage, using its foundations and basements.
The department store opened on 6 June 1957 and was the first building in the USSR to install escalators.
Pavel Korin's mosaic panels were never made: the project was simplified during the fight against "excesses".
During the 2008–2015 reconstruction a seven-story atrium replaced the three-story one; eight bronze floor lamps and the marble staircases remain from the old interior.
The atrium clock's mechanism weighs 4.5 tonnes and has 5,000 parts, and its pendulum is 13 meters long; the clock was made by the Petrodvorets Watch Factory.
The carousel with horses that stood for many years in the old Detsky Mir returned to the main atrium in 2021.
Under the roof is the Museum of Childhood, with about a thousand exhibits, including Soviet toys.