GUM

GUM is the large scale shopping mall that can be found in the historic Upper Trading Roms building at the Red Square opposite the Kremlin. Opening hours are 10am to 10pm daily.

This building was constructed in the late 19th century and maintains much of its original Neoclassical architecture found in the building exterior and interior. During summer months, there are lovely flowerbeds lining the building entrances while the interior is decorated in a festive spring flower like manner during our July 2017 visit.

We enjoyed visiting GUM a couple times during our recent visit to Moscow. We had a nice breakfast at the Coffee Mania and quite enjoyed the impressive old school food market on the ground floor with lots of fresh food counters, packaged foods and imports.

During our July visit there were numerous kiosks selling ice-cream which visitors were queuing for much of the day. Muscovites must love their ice-cream. We didn't try but were intrigued by how many people where queueing for simple ice-cream scoops from GUM. Must have been good.

In the end, given the excellent location of the GUM department store and shopping mall, this is an easy attraction to stop by during visits to the Red Square.