Today, more and more often you can come across a word such as “mall”, hear such a phrase as “city mall”, or even see glossy magazines with that name. What is called this mysterious foreign, but already tightly entered into the Russian vocabulary word? We will understand this article.
"Mall" - how much in this word ...
So mall - what is it? If we talk about etymology, then this term comes from English mall, which translates as a shopping center (complex) or a place for walking. That's so simple!
In Russia, it is customary to call malls huge shopping centers that began to open in our country in all more or less large cities. This is a place where you can not only carry out shopping and get absolutely everything you need, but also have a great time with family, children or in the company of best friends.
These islands of commerce and entertainment will satisfy even the most demanding visitors. What is not here!
"Siberian Mall"
This shopping complex is located in the heart of Novosibirsk, is a truly family center. The whole floor is intended for children, this is a huge number of shops for a variety of children's products, and a large modern playground.
Cinema fans can always watch all the premieres of world blockbusters; for this, a convenient multi-screen cinema is located here. A mall with a large number of cinema halls is a wide repertoire and the ability to choose the right time for a movie screening session. Here is a movie theater! To visit the mall with benefit, the schedule of his movie premiere can be found on his website.
The mall in Novosibirsk will delight its guests with a food court, where you can find cozy restaurants and cafes offering a wide range of dishes for every taste and wallet size. Here you can find a sports bar, healthy food is now very fashionable and in demand.
A huge number of shops and hypermarkets, bowling and other entertainment, as well as a comfortable, ample parking make the Siberian Mall an ideal place for shopping and spending time.
The largest mall in the world
The largest mall in the world by area until 2013 was the Dubai Mall. Its total area exceeds 1.2 million m², and the trade area is 350,000 m². It was opened in November 2008 and is located in downtown Dubai - Downtown.
In addition to 1,200 retail outlets, for example, one of the largest aquariums in the world, as well as an Olympic-size ice skating rink, are located here. Here there is the so-called Grove, it’s just a piece of the street covered with a moving roof. The largest global gold market is also located here, and this is no less, but 220 stores of gold products.
Probably, everything that can be seen here should be listed for a long time. To find out what the mall is, you need to visit the Dubai Mall.
However, in 2013 the Dubai Mall lost the palm to the new New Century Global Center, built in Chengdu in southwestern China.
18 floors of this giant occupy an area of 1,700,000 m 2 , which is quite a bit smaller than the entire state of Monaco!
Here you can visit a whole artificially created village, as well as soak up on a real beach, however, with an artificial sun!
The largest mall in Russia
It is easy to guess that the largest mall in Russia is located in the capital. Moscow Vegas impresses visitors not only with the scale and number of trading units, but also with its entertainment capabilities.
There is an extreme amusement park here, including an 18-meter-high Ferris wheel, a rock, motorcycle and race track, go-karting, a 4-story-high labyrinth.
Naturally, the center has a huge children's area and a multiplex cinema. By the way, the halls are 9. In addition, the Walk of Fame, located here, already boasts autographs of world famous celebrities such as Mila Jovovich, as well as Robert De Niro.
Rating of the largest shopping and entertainment centers in Russia
TOP of the largest malls in Russia, which have already been commissioned and successfully operate, is headed, of course, by the Vegas shopping center in Moscow.
In second place is the Mega Belaya Dacha shopping and entertainment complex. This is also the capital's mall, the highlight of which can be called a mini-golf course with a capacity of 9 holes, billiards, bowling, as well as an ice rink and a 15-screen modern cinema.
Several of the following positions in the ranking are also occupied by metropolitan shopping complexes. Such as the Golden Babylon of Rostokino, Mega-Khimki, Lefortovo City.
Let's turn to the regions. Krasnodar TRC "OZ MALL" may appear in the near future, in particular, in Omsk and Saratov. The entertaining component of this shopping center is represented by a 10-screen cinema, an ice rink (its area is 1000 m²), bowling. Here it is planned the Minipolis children's entertainment center - a kind of theme park where special stations will be equipped on specific topics. This makes it possible for children to get acquainted with the functioning of municipal and social services (police, hospitals, schools and kindergartens), as well as commercial enterprises, in particular, to find out if the mall is what it is. There will be cafes and restaurants using special currency.
Rating of the largest shopping and entertainment centers in Europe
The TOP of the largest malls in Europe includes many of the shopping and entertainment centers that were listed in the previous rating. So, the Mega Belaya Dacha shopping center (2nd place), as well as Mega-Khimki (8th place) and Golden Babylon Rostokino (9th place) are among the largest European malls.
3rd place in this ranking is Puerto Venecia, located in Zaragoza (Spain). A distinctive feature of this shopping center, of course, is an artificial lake, on which guests of the center can sail in boats. The area of the lake is 7500 m².
In the 4th place is also the Spanish mall - Marineda City + Marineda Plaza (La Coruña, Spain). In addition to a huge number of shops and boutiques, as well as entertainment centers, there is a business center and a 4-star Carris hotel.
The 5th position of the shopping and entertainment giants belongs to the British MetroCentre, Gateshead (Newcastle).
Austrian Shopping City Sud takes the 6th place; it is also the oldest of the presented malls. It was opened back in 1976.
So, now the reader has a clear idea of the mall - what it is.