Minsk
Minska (Minsk) is a shopping mall in Purvciems built in 1980s. Along with Mebelu Nams it was the most notable place in this area during Soviet and early post soviet time.
In Soviet Union it was popular to name shopping centers after Soviet and other Eastern bloc cities.
e.g. In Moscow is popular shop called Budapest, in Minsk is Frunze and so on..
Do you know any others combinations? :)
Labels: buildings, cities, people, purvciems, shopping, soviet
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Despite a rather exhaustive guide ("Vilnius 1900 - 2005"), I didn't find such names for commercial center in Vilnius.
Just a cinema, built in 1975, named "Maskva" (Didzioji gatve 28)and which was destroying (and still destroys)its environment, in Vilnius old town.
There was a cinema named "Moskwa" (Moscow) in Warsaw, and there is still working cinema "Kijów" (Kiev) in Kraków.
Here you have famous picture of cinema Moskwa, taken during martial law in Poland, in winter 1981-82:
http://wiadomosci.fdb.pl/1570-kino-moskwa-25-lat-pozniej
Billboard presents movie "Apocalypse Now"...
8-23, what's the meaning?
It must have special meaning.
Of course it has a meaning !
These are the opening hours (8 a.m. until 11 p.m.) of this supermarket Rimi (Latvian chain)! Moreover, if it;s in Latvia like in Lithuania, it's 7 days a week.
In Krakow there was cinema "Kiev":)
"Rimi" is in fact a Norwegian chain, not Latvian.
About RIMI, you are right, it's not a Latvian owned chain but .... Swedish (ICA AB owns 100% of RIMI Baltic: http://www.rimi.lt/about-us/rimi-baltic-investors/234)
Gilles,
Swedish ICA is the sole owner of Rimi from 2004. But it started up in Norway in 1977 by the Norwegian Stein Erik Hagen.
Dutch "Royal Ahold" owns in turn 60% of ICA AB, so should we just agree it's Dutch, then?
;-)
In Minsk there is the shop called "Riga". It's one of the most famous shops in Minsk.
We have a shop called Ryga in Vilnius and there is also a Minskas shopping center too in a district of a similar style .