GUM Trading House

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The 1st photo - th shop window of HERMES shop in GUM.
The 2d photo - the shop window of the grocery store "Gastronom #1".

Today I'd like to tell you about one of trading houses. Some time ago I used to visit this place often because it was on my way to the university. 

GUM is one of the most luxurious trading houses in Moscow. It is situated on Red Square, 3. Here you can find a lot of shops which sell famous labels and also those which are traditionally russian. For example, there is a huge grocery store ("Gastronom #1") situated on the first floor. The store is resembling the shops of soviet and post-soviet times: here you can buy foodstuffs packed in a way they used to be packed earlier and enjoy the light music while shopping.

GUM is a tourists attraction too. It's not only an interesting building but also up-to-date changing place: its appearance changes with the calendar - in the New Year Eve there are a huge furtree, orchestra performing different chants and many other decorations; in spring there are many artificial but verisimilar trees and birds, etc.

You can find a big fountian at the centre of GUM. Moscovites arrange their meetings near this fountain.