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      Kitay-gorod for foodies

      ⏱ 3 h🚶 1.8 km🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      A rooftop viewing platform at Detsky Mir, three floors of world cuisines on Nikolskaya and merchant Ilyinka.

      👶 With kids🍽 Food tour✨ New places
      👶 3–6, 7–12, 13+ years · ✓ stroller-friendly

      Detsky Mir has lifts between the store's floors, but the viewing platform from the 6th floor is stairs only: leave the stroller downstairs. Nikolskaya and Ilyinka are paved with tiles and cobblestones, with no steps.

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        ✨ 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.
        A rooftop viewing platform and the biggest clock mechanism
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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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        🍽 Osteria Mario in Central Children's Store (TsDM) on Lubyanka · 🧸 play area
        Театральный пр., 5, стр. 1, ЦДМ, 4-й этаж
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        A restaurant on the 4th floor of Detsky Mir; you can go up in a lift with a stroller. The play room has entertainers, a good place to spend an hour before or after a walk along Nikolskaya. On weekends it's better to book a table.
        🍴 A family Italian trattoria in the Central Children's Store: an eco play area with wooden toys, entertainers and free workshops on weekends. Try: pizza and pasta; for kids, meatballs, nuggets and vegetable sticks.
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        🚶 Nikolskaya Street
        A pedestrian street from Red Square to Lubyanka with the Kazan Cathedral, the Print Yard and garlands overhead.
        A pedestrian street
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        Nikolskaya Street
        © Ludvig14 · CC BY-SA 3.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Uwe Brodrecht · CC BY-SA 2.0
        Nikolskaya Street
        © Юрий Д.К. · CC BY 4.0
        • It is named after the Old St Nicholas Monastery, founded here in 1390.
        • In 1564 Ivan Fyodorov printed the Apostol at the Print Yard on Nikolskaya, the first dated Russian printed book.
        • The Gothic Synodal Printing House with a lion and a unicorn was built in 1814; the press worked there until 1918.
        • In 1687 the Slavic Greek Latin Academy opened here, Moscow's first institution of higher education, where Lomonosov later studied.
        • In the Slavyansky Bazar restaurant (No. 17) in 1897, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, over many hours of conversation, agreed to found the Moscow Art Theatre.
        • Ferrein's pharmacy at No. 21 was built in 1894–1899 to a design by Adolf Erichson.
        • The street became pedestrian in August 2013 and is about 630 m long.
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        🍜 Vokrug Sveta Gastromarket
        Никольская ул., 10
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        A food market: try a little of different cuisines
        🍴 A gastromarket on Nikolskaya Street: food stalls with cuisines from different countries in one hall, open until late. What to order: tom yum with shrimp, oysters at the shrimp stall, khachapuri at the Georgian stall, Turkish coffee brewed on sand.
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        🚶 Ilyinka Street
        An old Kitay-gorod street running from Red Square, with banks, the stock exchange and the Gostiny Dvor arcade.
        Bank and exchange buildings of the 19th century
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        Ilyinka Street
        © Florstein (Telegram:WikiPhoto.Space) · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • From 1935 to 1990 Ilyinka was called Kuibyshev Street.
        • The street took its name from the Ilyinsky Monastery; its Church of Elijah the Prophet (no. 3) was founded in 1519 and still stands.
        • On the night of 17 May 1606 the alarm bell from the Ilyinsky Monastery bell tower signaled the uprising in which False Dmitry I was killed.
        • The five-story Trinity Compound building (no. 5, 1870s) long remained the largest civil building in Moscow; it housed the Novotroitsky tavern, a favorite of merchants.
        • The Stock Exchange building (no. 6) stands on the site of the Church of Demetrius of Thessalonica, after which the street was called Dmitrovka in the 14th–15th centuries.
        • The Old Gostiny Dvor (no. 4) was built from 1790 to 1830 to a design by Giacomo Quarenghi.

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