Crocus City is an exhibition and business complex located in Krasnogorsk with concert halls, hotels, and restaurants.

Development

Developed by

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's Crocus International, the site is located near the

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Administrative HQ, just outside Moscow's

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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.

Crocus City Hall

2024 terrorist 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.

Crocus Expo

Crocus Expo is the adjacently located

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and business centre, also built, run and operated by Crocus International. It is the largest business centre in Russia. From 2011 to 2019, Crocus hosted an annual video game exhibition

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, 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. In 2014, Crocus Expo also hosted the first

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. In 2016 it received a bomb threat via phone call which caused its evacuation.

Crocus City Hall The Crocus City Hall () is a music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is part of the Crocus City development, which also includes the Crocus City Mall, Crocus Expo and . It is dedicated to Muslim Magomayev (1942–2008), a Sov ...

received similar threats a year later.

Metro station

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 paid for the

Moscow Metro The Moscow Metro) is a rapid transit system in the Moscow Oblast of Russia. It serves the capital city of Moscow and the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy, and Kotelniki. Opened in 1935 with one l ...

railway station at Myakinino to be additionally planned and built on the extension of the

Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line The Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line (, ) (Line 3; Blue Line) is one of the lines of the Moscow Metro system in Moscow, Russia. Chronologically the second to open, it connects the Mitino District and the town of Krasnogorsk to the northwest of Moscow ...

, located between Volokolamskaya and Strogino stations. Myakinino opened on 26 December 2009. It was the first station to be built outside Moscow.

References

External links

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