Crocus City
Crocus City is an exhibition and business complex located in Krasnogorsk with concert halls, hotels, and restaurants.
Development
[edit]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
[edit]Crocus City Mall
[edit]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.[1]
Crocus City Hall
[edit]2024 terrorist attack
[edit]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.[2]
Crocus Expo
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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]
Metro station
[edit]Vegas Crocus City
[edit]Vegas Crocus City is a shopping mall located in Crocus City.
Crocus City Oceanarium
[edit]Crocus City Oceanarium is an Oceanarium located in Crocus City.
Transport
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Crocus City Mall". mydestinationinfo.com. Archived from the original on 2010-09-30. Retrieved 2011-03-10.
- ^ "Death toll in Moscow concert hall attack rises to 140 after another victim dies in hospital". ABC News. 27 March 2024. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ tvzvezda.ru, Редакция. "«Крокус-Экспо» эвакуировали из-за угрозы взрыва – СМИ". Телеканал «Звезда» (in Russian). Retrieved 21 July 2019.
- ^ Шеркунова, Настасья. "Концертный зал в Москве эвакуировали из-за угрозы взрыва". Федеральное агентство новостей No.1 (in Russian). Retrieved 21 July 2019.
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