In Moscow, what type of building is GUM?
GUM is the name of the main department store in many cities of the former Soviet Union, known as State Department Store during the Soviet times. Similarly-named stores were found in some Soviet republics and post-Soviet states.
The most famous GUM is the large store in the Kitai-gorod part of Moscow facing Red Square. It is currently a shopping mall. Prior to the 1920s, the location was known as the Upper Trading Rows (Russian: Верхние торговые ряды, tr. Verhnije torgovye rjady).
Nearby, facing The Bolshoi Theatre, is a building very similar to GUM, known formerly as the Middle Trading Rows, now the TsUM, about the same size as a large North American shopping mall, with a glass roof.
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