Biblio Globus — Local services in Basmanny District

A little bit overhyped place but it's still okay. More expensive than its competitors and they don't bother separating science-based literature from someone fraud (like you can find "alternative history" books at the same place as the real history books). The store mostly aims at profit by any means, so you'll find all kinds of weird stuff there. Having said that, if you know what you are looking for it's might be a good place then: they have electronic catalogues every here and there so you don't have to browse all the shelves on your own, and they have a very, very big selection on...

Arguably the best and the largest bookstore in the entire Russian Federation. Incredibly wide selection of books of all kinds ranging from cookbooks and cheap fiction to a good variety of high-quality. art albums and scientific literature on a wide range of topics including mathematics, chemistry and quantum physics. Also it has a pretty large section with books in English, French and other languages. Absolute must-visit for any book...

Always bursting with life, one of the biggest bookstore of Moscow. However, it is not very easy to navigate there, and the overall feeling it leaves is that it didn't change much from the Soviet era, and it stubbornly tends to stay that way, which is a higgledy-piggledy and topsy-turvy kind of place. But from time to time they organise nice little events and presentations of books, meetings with their authors etc.,...