Must-see shopping in Moscow

  • Transylvania

    Moscow

    From the courtyard, look for the black metal door that leads down into this dungeon of a shop, which houses room after room of CDs, in every genre…

  • Yekaterina

    Moscow

    One of Russia’s oldest furriers, this place has been manufacturing shapky (fur hats) and shuby (fur coats) since 1912. While Yekaterina has always…

  • Exterior of GUM department store.

    GUM

    Moscow

    Behind its elaborate 240m-long facade on the northeastern side of Red Square, GUM is a bright, bustling shopping mall with hundreds of fancy stores and…

  • Yeliseev Grocery

    Moscow

    Peek in here for a glimpse of pre-revolutionary grandeur, as the store is set in the former mansion of the successful merchant Yeliseev. It now houses an…

  • Flakon

    Moscow

    Flakon is arguably the most visually attractive of all the redeveloped industrial areas around town, looking a bit like the far end of London's Portobello…

  • Zaporozhets Heritage

    Moscow

    Zaporozhets makes clothes themed on popular Soviet cartoon films, such as Holidays in Prostokvashino, for hipsters born after the USSR collapsed who love…

  • Roomchik

    Moscow

    A showroom of a popular online shop, which focuses primarily on little-known Russian designer brands. Definitely a place to look for high-quality clothes…

  • Alena Akhmadullina Boutique

    Moscow

    Alena Akhmadullina’s romantic, flowing fashions have been wowing trendsetters since 2005, when the St Petersburg designer first showed her stuff in Paris…

  • Respublika

    Moscow

    It’s a bookstore, but it’s also a gift shop, a music shop and a cafe. This is the place to shop for a quirky gift for your friend who (you think) has…

  • Exterior of TSUM with billboard.

    TsUM

    Moscow

    TsUM stands for Tsentralny Universalny Magazin (Central Department Store). Built in 1909 as the Scottish-owned Muir & Merrilees, it was the first…

  • Moskva

    Moscow

    One of the oldest and biggest Moscow bookshops, opened in 1958, Moskva has a huge collection of books in many languages. There's a downstairs antiques…

  • Podarki vMeste s Vorovski

    Moscow

    This sweet little boutique houses a cooperative of four designer gift producers. The rather cramped space is filled with hundreds of useful and useless …

  • Simachyov Boutique & Bar

    Moscow

    The wild child of Russian fashion, Denis Simachyov has become a household name in Moscow thanks to his popular nightclub and irreverent clothing. His…

  • Lnyanaya Lavka

    Moscow

    Russian fashion designers are doing wonderful things with linen, crafting this potentially drab material into modern, playful clothing. Styles are…

  • Dom Inostrannoy Knigi

    Moscow

    The House of Foreign Books is a small place with a wide selection of literature in foreign languages. Most books are in English, though there are smaller…

  • Tsvetnoy

    Moscow

    Of all shopping centres in central Moscow, this is the funkiest, with clothes and interior-design items from international and emerging Russian brands, a…

  • Fountain and stairs in Okhotny Ryad shopping centre.

    Okhotny Ryad

    Moscow

    The best part of this underground mall is the fanciful troika fountain that splashes the shoppers as they enter and exit from Alexander Garden. Aside from…

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