The Golden Babylon of Rostokino is a popular shopping and entertainment center in the north-east of Moscow. Numerous shops and boutiques, cafes and restaurants, the O'Key hypermarket and the farm products fair, the Luxor multiplex cinema and the FunCity game club with bowling and air hockey are located on a sales area of more than 240,000 m 2 .
At the time of its opening in November 2009, the center was the largest in Russia and Europe. This article will answer the question: how to get to the "Golden Babylon" on Prospekt Mira. The article discusses all possible ways to do this, shows the directions to the complex.
How to get to this shopping center for free
Almost from the very opening, branded buses with the symbols of a shopping center run from the nearest metro stations. With their help, you can drive to the Golden Babylon for free. How to do this? Free buses leave the Sviblovo and Otradnoe metro stations daily from 11:00 to 22:00 with an interval of 20 minutes. At the Babushkinskaya metro station, such vehicles depart from Yeniseiskaya Street.
How to get to the "Golden Babylon" from VDNH? This can also be done for free on a branded shopping mall bus. It stops between the north and south (old and new) subway exits. All Babylon buses complete their route at the East entrance to the shopping center. They also carry visitors tired of shopping back to the subway stations.
How to get to the Golden Babylon on Mira Avenue by ground transport
From the station of the MCC “Rostokino” and the railway platform “Severyanin” to the shopping center 10 minutes on foot. Heading towards the stop of the Remzavod ground transport, on the other side of Mira Avenue you can see the huge Babylon building. It remains only to cross the highway through the underpass and head to the desired shopping center.
From VDNH metro station to Golden Babylon can be reached in 15 minutes by express bus 903, trolley bus 76, buses 172, 136, 344, 375. The stop is located near the southern entrance to the metro from Kibalchicha Street. Next to the northern (main) subway entrance at VDNKh station you can also take buses 375 and 578. All of these routes stop at Rostokino (Remzavod) station, from which you can quickly reach the shopping center on foot.
You can get to Babylon by buses going to the region - to Krasnoarmeysk, Korolev, Pushkino and Ivanteyevka - routes 316, 317, 388, 392, 451. You can catch them at the bus station located near the VDNH metro station hotel "Cosmos".
How to get to the "Golden Babylon" on Prospekt Mira from Medvedkovo metro station? You can also get on tram 17, stopping right in front of the mall. This can be done both from the VDNH metro station and from the Babushkinskaya and Medvedkovo stations. At the bus stop in front of the shopping center you can also find trolley bus 14 and bus 93.
How to get to the "Golden Babylon" by car
The mall is located at the address: Moscow, Prospekt Mira, 211.
If you are moving from the region by car, you need to get out onto the Yaroslavl highway (from the MKAD), move off from it to the right on the Severyaninsky bridge. The noticeable shopping center building will be located immediately to your left. Moving along the overpass, you will get to Serebryakova passage, turn in the direction of Amundsen street and turn around in a roundabout, at the traffic light turn left and move along Serebryakova passage in the opposite direction to the entrance to the shopping center (it will be on the right).
If you are heading from the center of Moscow, before reaching the Severyaninskaya flyover, move under it in the direction of Yenisei Street. After the U-turn, you can either move along Serebryakov’s passage like the method described above, or drive to the main entrance to the shopping center towards Mira Avenue (to the city center).
Conclusion
This shopping center is one of the largest venues in the capital. It has more than 450 stores. This article provides an exhaustive answer to the question: how to get to the "Golden Babylon" on Prospekt Mira. Alternative methods are also suggested to help get to it. The megamall has its own free transport from several nearby metro stations at once, which makes the path to it convenient for everyone. Have a nice shopping!