Crocus City
{{short description|Shopping mall near Moscow, Russia}}
File:Международный выставочный центр Крокус Экспо.jpg
Crocus City is an exhibition and business complex located in Krasnogorsk with concert halls, hotels, and restaurants.
Development
Developed by Aras Agalarov's Crocus International, the site is located near the Moscow Oblast Administrative HQ, just outside Moscow's MKAD ring road.
Complex
=Crocus City Mall=
Crocus City Mall is a shopping mall located in Crocus City. Built of natural stone in a mixture between neo-classical and oriental architectural styles, the two-storey building opened in 2002.{{cite web|url=http://moscow.mydestinationinfo.com/en/crocus-city-mall#ixzz1GELhj8Mc|title=Crocus City Mall|publisher=mydestinationinfo.com|accessdate=2011-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930150509/http://moscow.mydestinationinfo.com/en/crocus-city-mall#ixzz1GELhj8Mc|archive-date=2010-09-30|url-status=dead}}
=Crocus City Hall=
{{Main|Crocus City Hall}}
==2024 terrorist attack==
{{Main|Crocus City Hall attack}}
On March 22, 2024, the concert hall and its surrounding facilities were subjected to a coordinated terrorist attack by ISIS-K, where 143 people were killed and over 551 others injured.{{cite news |title=Death toll in Moscow concert hall attack rises to 140 after another victim dies in hospital |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/death-toll-moscow-concert-hall-attack-rises-140-108542079 |access-date=27 March 2024 |publisher=ABC News |date=27 March 2024}}
=Crocus Expo=
File:Crocus exhibition center 10.jpg
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.{{fact|date=March 2024}}
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.{{fact|date=March 2024}}
In 2014, Crocus Expo also hosted the first Comic-Con Russia.{{fact|date=March 2024}}
In 2016 it received a bomb threat via phone call which caused its evacuation.{{cite web |last1=tvzvezda.ru |first1=Редакция |title=«Крокус-Экспо» эвакуировали из-за угрозы взрыва – СМИ |url=https://tvzvezda.ru/news/vstrane_i_mire/content/201610071702-mntd.htm |website=Телеканал «Звезда» |accessdate=21 July 2019 |language=ru}} Crocus City Hall received similar threats a year later.{{cite web |last1=Шеркунова |first1=Настасья |title=Концертный зал в Москве эвакуировали из-за угрозы взрыва |url=https://riafan.ru/717233-koncertnyi-zal-v-moskve-evakuirovali-iz-za-ugrozy-vzryva |website=Федеральное агентство новостей No.1 |accessdate=21 July 2019 |language=ru}}
=Metro station=
{{Main|Myakinino (Moscow Metro)}}
=Vegas Crocus City=
Vegas Crocus City is a shopping mall located in Crocus City.
=Crocus City Oceanarium=
Crocus City Oceanarium is an Oceanarium located in Crocus City.
Transport
The {{ill|Crocus Group|ru}} 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.{{fact|date=March 2024}}
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Crocus City}}
- [http://www.crocus-city.ru/eng/mall/ Crocus City Mall] in English
{{coord missing|Moscow}}
Category:2002 establishments in Russia
Category:Buildings and structures in Moscow Oblast
Category:Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast
Category:Shopping malls established in 2002