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Interior of Gum store, Moscow, c1970s. Artist: CM Dixon.

Interior of Gum store, Moscow, c1970s. Artist: CM Dixon.

2-640-558 - © CM Dixon/Heritage Images

Interior of GUM store, Moscow, c1970s. GUM wa the name given to State Department Stores in many cities in the former Soviet Union. The most famous in Kitai-gorod, Moscow is currently a shopping mall. Upper Trading Rows were built between 1890 and 1893 by Alexander Pomerantsev and Vladimir Shukhov in Russian medieval steel framework with a glass roof. One of the few stores in the Soviet Union that did not have shortages of consumer goods.

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People Information

Creator
  1. CM Dixon, attributed to: British: Photographer
People Related
  1. Alexandr Pomerantsev: Russian: architect, teacher
  2. Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov: Russian: engineer-polymath, scientist and architect
Medium
  1. Photograph
Geographic Hierarchy

World Asia Russia Moskva Moscow

  1. 55 45 00 N , 037 42 00 E
Category Hierarchy

Artistic Representations Cityscapes

Trade & Industry Shops & Markets

Locations & Buildings Other

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 4728x3204
File Size : 44,381kb

Aliases

  1. MAFQ11
  1. 0370004433
  1. 2-640-558
  1. 2640558
  1. MAFQ11
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