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      All day: Moscow's shops and food halls

      ⏱ 10 h 30 min🚶 6 km + 🚇🍽 3📍 13 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Historic department stores and arcades of the centre, lunch at the Central Market and the designer shops of Khlebozavod — almost the whole day indoors.

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      1. 1
        ☕️ Canteen No. 57 in GUM
        Красная пл., 3, 3-я линия
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        Breakfast: a Soviet canteen opens at 10:00
        🍴 A Soviet-style canteen on the third line of GUM: everything is on the serving counter, and cutlets and fish are sold by weight. What to order: herring under a fur coat, olivier salad, cutlets, pastries with kompot.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🏛 GUM
        Late-19th-century trading rows under glass vaults, with openwork bridges over three arcades.
        Walk all three lines and the second-floor bridges, with ice cream by the fountain
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        GUM
        © Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0
        GUM
        © AlixSaz · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The Upper Trading Rows building was built in 1890–1893 to a design by Alexander Pomerantsev, and trading began on 2 December 1893.
        • The glass vaults over the arcades were made by the St Petersburg Metal Works using engineer Otto Krell's system; Shukhov's involvement is an urban legend.
        • The name "State Universal Store" appeared in 1921.
        • From the early 1930s the building housed people's commissariats and offices, and it became the GUM store again only in December 1953.
        • The fountain in the middle of the first line is a long-time meeting place: Muscovites have been saying "meet me at the fountain in GUM" for generations.
        • Since 2006 a skating rink has been flooded in winter by the GUM walls on Red Square.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        🏛 Gastronom No. 1 in GUM
        Красная пл., 3, ГУМ
        A 24-hour delicatessen in the Soviet spirit, with delicacies and nostalgic products.
        Caviar, sweets and tinned food in Soviet-style packaging — for souvenirs
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        Gastronom No. 1 in GUM
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Gastronom No. 1 in GUM
        © Alexxx1979 · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Gastronom No. 1 was restored in 2008 on the third line of GUM; it used to be on the first line.
        • The GUM building, the former Upper Trading Rows, was built in 1893 to a design by Alexander Pomerantsev, who won a competition of 23 entries.
        • The Upper Trading Rows' glass roofs were the first to be assembled on a system of metal arches with radial tie rods.
        • GUM as a state department store reopened in 1953 after restoration; the gallery lamps were recreated from 1953 originals in 2013.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        ✨ Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        🎟 partly ticketed · the store is free to enter, the rooftop viewing platform requires a ticket
        The country's largest children's store, in a 1957 building with an atrium and a rooftop viewing platform.
        Old mechanical clocks in the atrium and a free rooftop viewpoint
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        Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        Central Children's Store on Lubyanka (Detsky Mir)
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • 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.
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      9. 5
        🏛 TsUM (formerly Muir & Mirrielees)
        ул. Петровка, 2
        A Gothic building with spires and huge windows, Moscow's first department store, built to a design by Klein.
        1908 neo-Gothic: ride the escalator up under the glass roof
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        TsUM (formerly Muir & Mirrielees)
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        TsUM (formerly Muir & Mirrielees)
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • The Scots Andrew Muir and Archibald Mirrielees registered the Muir & Mirrielees trademark in 1857.
        • The store on Teatralnaya Square opened in 1885 as a shop of ladies' hats and haberdashery.
        • Here prices were first written on the goods themselves, so haggling stopped; returns were accepted too.
        • After fires in 1892 and 1900, Roman Klein built a seven-story Neo-Gothic building, opened in 1908.
        • The store has been called TsUM since 1933, and during the war the building housed barracks.
        • The 1974 wing is in the same style as the historic one, and in 2007–2008 an extension doubled the area.
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      11. 6
        🏛 Petrovsky Passage
        ул. Петровка, 10
        A shopping arcade of 1906 with two tiers of shops along a long gallery between Petrovka and Neglinnaya.
        Two galleries under 1906 glass vaults
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        Petrovsky Passage
        © A.Savin · CC BY-SA 3.0
        • The passage was built by the merchant's wife Vera Firsanova, owner of the Sandunovsky Baths and the Serednikovo estate.
        • The design was by Sergei Kalugin and Boris Freudenberg, who also designed the Sandunovsky Baths.
        • The passage opened on 20 February 1906 and had more than fifty shopping pavilions.
        • The glass vaults are often attributed to Shukhov, but that is an urban legend: the structures were made by the Arthur Koppel firm.
        • Electricity for the passage's illumination came from a power station in the same Sandunovsky Baths.
        • In the 1930s Dirizhablestroy (the airship construction bureau) worked here, where the Italian designer Umberto Nobile served in 1931–1936.
        • The passage's auction hall is described in Ilf and Petrov's "The Twelve Chairs".
      12. 🚶 on foot
      13. 7
        🚶 Stoleshnikov Lane (Stoleshnikov Pereulok)
        A short pedestrian lane in the centre, with 19th-century apartment buildings and expensive shops.
        A pedestrian lane of boutiques and jewellers
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        Stoleshnikov Lane (Stoleshnikov Pereulok)
        © Andreykor · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The name comes from stoleshnik, an old word for tablecloth: in the 17th century weavers lived here.
        • The lane is first mentioned as Rozhdestvenskaya Street in Ivan III's will of 1504.
        • In 1922 Kosmodamianovsky Lane was added to it, and it doubled in length.
        • Vladimir Gilyarovsky lived at no. 9; the estate now houses his museum and exhibition centre, a branch of the Museum of Moscow.
        • In Soviet times the lane was famous for its second-hand bookshops, considered the best in Moscow.
        • In 2007 Jones Lang LaSalle named it the second most expensive shopping street in the world after the Champs-Élysées.
      14. 🚶 on foot
      15. 8
        🏛 Yeliseyev House (former Yeliseyevsky shop)
        Тверская ул., 14
        A neo-Gothic facade and display windows of 1901; the food hall itself has been closed since 2021.
        The food hall has been closed since 2021 — view the neo-Gothic facade
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        Yeliseyev House (former Yeliseyevsky shop)
        © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Yeliseyev House (former Yeliseyevsky shop)
        © Aniacra · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • Grigory Yeliseyev bought the former Kozitskaya mansion in 1898; the architect Baranovsky led its conversion into a shop.
        • For three years the building stood wrapped in wooden scaffolding, and townspeople wondered what was inside; the scaffolding came down on the morning of the opening.
        • The shop opened on 23 January (5 February) 1901; Gilyarovsky described the ceremony in Moscow and Muscovites.
        • The entrance to the wine department was made from Kozitsky Lane: wine could not be sold within 100 m of a church, and the Strastnoy Monastery stood 90 m away.
        • The display of goods in pyramids, later copied by many shops, was Yeliseyev's idea.
        • From the 1920s the shop was officially called Gastronom No. 1.
        • In the early 1980s, in the "Yeliseyevsky case", the shop's director Sokolov was sentenced to death.
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      17. 9
        🧺 Tsentralny Market
        Рождественский б-р, 1
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        Lunch: counters on two floors, take a little from several
        🍴 A food hall on Trubnaya: around fifty corners with cuisines from around the world, and music in the evenings. What to order: pho bo at PhoBo, tom yum at Tom Yam, pinsa at Pinzeria by Bontempi, khinkali (Georgian dumplings) at Gruziny Zdes.
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      19. 10
        🏛 Tsvetnoy Department Store
        Цветной б-р, 15, стр. 1
        A modern multi-story department store with a glass facade, opened in 2010 by Tsvetnoy Boulevard.
        Open brand corners without partitions, a restaurant on the roof
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        • The department store was designed by the architect Yuri Grigoryan.
        • Before it, the site held the Central Market building of 1959.
        • The Central Market on Tsvetnoy Boulevard was founded in 1937.
        • The boulevard itself is named after the flower market opened here in 1851; before that it was Trubny.
      20. 🚇 metro from Tsvetnoy Bulvar to Dmitrovskaya (grey line), 3 stops, then about 10 min on foot
      21. 11
        ✨ Khlebozavod No. 9 creative cluster
        Новодмитровская ул., 1
        A creative quarter in the buildings of a Constructivist bread factory, with shops, cafés and showrooms.
        Design shops and showrooms
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        Khlebozavod No. 9 creative cluster
        © Yartsew · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Khlebozavod No. 9 creative cluster
        © Молчаливый Отто · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The factory was launched in 1934 under the name Bread Factory No. 9 named after the 17th Party Congress.
        • The cylindrical building is a result of engineer Georgy Marsakov's ring baking technology: the dough moved in a circle.
        • It was the fourth Moscow bread factory to use the ring technology.
        • In 2015 the factory was privatised and closed, and the site was turned into a retail and office centre.
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      23. 12
        ✨ Design Zavod (formerly Flacon)
        Б. Новодмитровская ул., 36, стр. 2
        A creative cluster on the grounds of the former Crystal Factory, with workshops and design shops; until it was sold in 2021 it was called Flacon.
        Workshops and shops of local labels
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        Design Zavod (formerly Flacon)
        © Flacon PR department · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Design Zavod (formerly Flacon)
        © Flacon PR department · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The complex opened in 2009 on the site of the former Kalinin Crystal Factory.
        • The developer Nikolai Matushevsky bought the idle factory in 2005 from its French owners.
        • In 2011 Forbes included Flacon in a list of 14 projects that changed the face of Moscow for the better.
        • In 2021 the complex was sold, the Flacon brand stayed with its previous owner, and the site came to be called Design Zavod.
      24. 🚶 on foot
      25. 13
        ☕️ Floo coffee shop at Khlebozavod
        Новодмитровская ул., 1, стр. 1 (Хлебозавод № 9)
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        A light dinner and dessert at a café in Khlebozavod, open until 22:00
        🍴 A coffee shop in the Khlebozavod building with breakfasts, desserts and alternative coffee: from 7:30 on weekdays, from 9:00 on weekends, until 22:00. What to order: a combo breakfast or a Thai omelette with shrimp, lemon cake, tiramisu, filter coffee or an espresso tonic.

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