Crocus City Mall is a shopping mall located in the southern Moscow district of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast.
A developed by Aras Agalarov's Crocus International, the site is located near the Moscow Oblast Administrative HQ, just outside Moscow's MKAD ring road. Built of natural stone in a mixuture between neo-classical and oriental architectural styles, the two storey building opened in 2001.[1]
The group paid for the Moscow Metro railway station at Myakinino to be additionally planned and built on the extension of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, located between Volokolamskaya and Strogino stations. Added as a single platform ground based station, it was built as a two platform undergound development, thanks to Crocus's funding input. Myakinino opened on 26 December 2009, the first station to be built outside Moscow.
Today its houses retaillers, including:
Crocus Expo is the adjacently located trade fair and business centre, also built, run and operated by Crocus International. It is the largest business centre in Russia.
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