Consumer Goods
In large trading complexes such as GUM, TSUM, Manezh Square Trading Complex, "Nautilus", "Atrium" and many others one can find clothes, shoes, haberdashery of well-known and not very well-known makes and designs, and a lot many other items. One can find a great number of small shops and street kiosks selling Russian souvenirs and antiques at Stari Arbat and at Izmailovo Park open air market. To purchase food supplies one should visit such big shops as "Seventh Continent" or "Kalinka Stockmann". In any case shopping in Moscow can turn into an interesting adventure and acquired pleasure will be proportional to one's financial wealth. If you don't like shopping, but have access to Internet, you can order goods directly from home.

GUM
Customary GUM is an inalienable part of Moscow tourist itineraries. And this is easy to explain. GUM is the oldest shop in Moscow situated right on the Red Square. The Red Square and adjoining area have been the place of brisk trade long since. From chronicles we know that already in the 17 century practically all wholesale and retail trade in the city were concentrated here. This building of GUM was built on the place of former High Trading Emporer, which was built in 1815 in accordance with O.I. Bove design. The existing GUM building was built in accordance to A. Pomerantsev design in 1890–1893. A. Pomerantsev, the architect, won a contest for reconstruction of old Upper Trading Emporer . Glass roofs between three parallel trading lines along the Red Square brought special flavor to the building. The engineer, V. Shako, designed Glass rooftops. After official opening in December, 1893 this shop became the main trading center of Moscow and favored promenade place for the Muscovites. It is still one of the main places of interest in Moscow.

At present GUM trading areas are nearly 30 thousand square meters. There are a great many shops, restaurants, cafes and a cinema theatre. One can find here virtually everything to satisfy any taste from expensive clothes and shoes created by famous world manufactures (Bosco di Ciliege Gallery) to casual items of European quality at reasonable prices. One can also find souvenir shops targeted mainly for foreign shoppers. There are many shops selling perfumery of different makes, electronics, watches, household accessories and many others.

Address: Red Square, 3.

Okhotny Ryad

www.gum.ru

TSUM
TSUM is yet another oldest shop of Moscow. It was opened by French entrepreneurs A. Meriliz and E. Mur in 1885. The entrepreneurs decided to open a shop in Moscow similar to London's "Whiteley" or "Bon Marché" of Paris and for this purpose they bought a big building on Teatraljnaya Square close to Kuznetsky Most Street, where the most expensive and chic shops were located. After the devastating fire of 1900, which burned the building to ashes, a new building of armored concrete and in gothic style was built (an attachment to it was built on Kuznetsky Most side in Soviet times) TSUM was the first communal building, where two high-speed elevators were installed and it also was the first shop for middle class, where one could buy everything, but food.

Modern TSUM is a smaller replica of GUM on the Red Square, but less pompous. There are not so many prestigious shops and prices are more reasonable. But situated nearby Stoleshnikov Pereulok and Kuznetsky Most with lots of boutiques from "Dolce & Gabbana" to "Valentino" give one a good choice of more expensive items.

Address: ul. Petrovka,  2.

Okhotny Ryad

www.tsum.ru

Trade Centers
There is quite a big number of trade centers in the center of the city (within Garden Ring limits) "Okhotny Ryad", "Gallery Actor", "Atrium", "Petrovsky Passage", "Sadovaya Gallery" – this are the names of the biggest trade centers. In general, all of them are quite similar. There are lots of goods of well-known makes and middle range boutiques, quite high prices and many cozy cafes and restaurants and cafes. As a rule, Muscovites visit such shops mainly during sale period – from the end of November till February and from July till August.

On central streets within Garden Ring one can find a great number of shops belonging to one trademark, practically all names known in fashion industry are more or less represented in Moscow. Tretyakovsky Proezd situated close to GUM deserves special mention as there are as many famous trademarks as in Milan Via de la Spiga and Via Monte Napoleone, Faubourg-saint-Honore and Place Vendome of Paris, New Bond Street of London and Madison Avenue of New York. Such concentration of fashionable shops on so a small area in seen nowhere else in Moscow. The only "Bentley" dealership in Moscow is situated here too.

Souvenirs
There is practically no country in the world where traditional Russian souvenirs such as matreshka, Pavlov Posad scarves, Gzel or Khohloma items, traditional Kostroma lace or Dimkovo toys are not known. All variety of folk handicrafts is represented on Stary Arbat or Izmailovo open-air market. There are many antiques and souvenirs shops, street kiosks at the Arbat. Piles of matreshka toys, Dimkovo toys, Zhostovo trays are scattered around Arbat. One can also find here items from the Soviet times – famous shapkas (fur hat with flaps), flags, military gear and many other items so popular with tourists. Street painters sell their works here as well.

To save money one can go to Izmailovo open-air market (the best day for the visit is Wednesday, the most brisk trading falls on that day). Izmailovo provides bigger choice and is cheaper. Please bear in mind, that it is open-air market and if it rains, there is a possibility that nobody is there. One should rather not buy antiques there, because as opposed to state shop private firms cannot provide permission to take purchased items out of the country. The same applies to paintings. If you like Gzel tableware, you should visit specialized Gzel shop at Sadovaya-Samotechnaya street opposite Obraztsov puppet theatre.

Food
To buy food one should visit such big trade centers as "Sedmoi Continent" (chain of these shops is located in the center of Moscow), "Kalinka Stockmann" and others. They provide a big choice of food – fresh fruit and vegetables, big variety of cheeses from all over the world, lots of meat, fish, different European wines and other alcoholic drinks. The choice is big and prices are high. Many items could be bought in a nearby shop twice as cheap. One should bear in mind, that all labels are in Russian and as opposed to boutiques personnel speaks only Russian here.

Addresses of "Sedmoi Continent" supermarkets:
Kurskaya, "Atrium" – Zemlyanoi Val, 33
Phone: 970-1480
Lubyanka, "Centralny" – ul. Bolshaya Lubyanka, 12/1
Phone: 928-9527
Okhotny Ryad, "Okhotny Ryad" – ul. Okhotny Ryad, 2
Phone: 292-7202
Borovitskaya, ul. Serafimovicha, 2
Phone: 959-0342
Smolenskaya, "Smolenski" – ul. Arbat, 54
Phone: 241-0761
Belorusskaya, ul. Bolshaya Gruzinskaya, dom 63, bld. 1
Phone: 721-3874/66
Akademicheskaya, Leninski Prospekt, 61
Phone: 137-0092

"Kalinka Stockmann"
Smolenskaya, Smolenskaya Square, 3
Phone: 937-8005