Great Gostiny Dvor

Gostiny Dvor (Russian Гостиный Двор, Russian for department store, shop) is the largest department store in St. Petersburg and after the Moscow GUM is the second largest department store in Russia.

The designed by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli and Vallin de la Mothe and built in the years 1761 to 1785 department store takes on Nevsky Prospekt with a facade length of more than one kilometer almost an entire city district a. In the early classical building after a fire in 1990 and a complete redesign of the interior is now a shopping center with about 200 mostly Western-style high-priced retail stores. The building is a UNESCO World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg, which includes about 2,300 buildings.

After Gostiny Dvor also opened in 1967 subway station Gostiny Dvor is named. One of its two inputs is located directly in the building of the department store.

Facade of Gostiny Dvor

Gostiny Dvor at night