
A NEW BEGINNING
In 2018, GUM celebrates a double anniversary: 125 years since the opening of the Upper Trading Rows building and 65 years since the reopening of GUM in 1953. Having spent many days and nights in the archives of GUM, journalist and art historian Grigori Revzin, found out that this double anniversary is nota simple coincidence.
The order on the eviction of offices and tenants from GUM
was signed on August 21st, 1953. The department store was reopened on December 24th, 1953.
HISTORY OF GUM