Crocus City Mall is a shopping mall located in Krasnogorsk, a western suburb of Moscow, Russia.
Crocus City Mall is a shopping mall located in Krasnogorsk, a western suburb of Moscow, Russia.
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 mixture between neo-classical and oriental architectural styles, the two-storey building opened in 2002. [1]
On March 22, 2024, the mall and its surrounding facilities were subjected to a coordinated terrorist attack by ISIS-K, where 143 people were killed and over 80 others injured. [2]
The Crocus 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. Myakinino opened on 26 December 2009. It was the first station to be built outside Moscow.[ citation needed ]
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.[ citation needed ]
From 2011 to 2019, Crocus hosted an annual video game exhibition Igromir, which was moved there from VDNKh exhibition center due to an increasing number of visitors. Over a hundred thousand visitors had attended Igromir in Crocus each year.[ citation needed ]
In 2014, Crocus Expo also hosted the first Comic-Con Russia.[ citation needed ]
In 2016 it received a bomb threat via phone call which caused its evacuation. [3] Crocus City Hall received similar threats a year later. [4]
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