Market shopping in Russia
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Izmaylovo Market
This sprawling area, also known as Vernisazh market, is packed with art, handmade crafts, antiques, Soviet paraphernalia and just about anything you might want for a souvenir. You’ll find Moscow’s biggest original range of matryoshki, palekh and khokhloma ware, as well as less traditional woodworking crafts. There are also rugs from the Caucasus and Central Asia, pottery, linens, jewellery, fur hats, chess sets, toys, Soviet posters and much more. Feel free to negotiate, but don’t expect vendors to come down more than 10%. This place is technically open every day, but many vendors come out only on weekends, when your selection is greater.
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Apraksin Dvor
While the exterior and surrounds of this sprawling market are getting a billion dollar facelift, the interior, a chaotic warren of stalls selling mainly cheap clothes, shoes and leather goods, continues as usual. Worth a mooch for bargains and gritty Dostoevsky-style atmosphere before the whole place becomes a sanitised mall.
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Maltevsky Market
Bargaining is encouraged at this bright spacious market, packed with vendors selling exotic fruits and vegetables, mounds of multicoloured spices, and fresh meats, fish and fowl. In some cases, the meat is so fresh it is still being hacked off its carcass. Don’t miss free samples of honey straight from the hive.
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Trading Arcade
The focus of appealing ul Lenina is the 19th-century Trading Arcade, set on a fountain-cooled piazza. Behind the renovated façade is a luxuriously marble-lined shopping mall full of boutiques, cafés and carts selling freshly squeezed orange juice.
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Udelnaya Fair
Antique-lovers and second-hand scavengers will be thrilled with this vast, informal flea market, where neat piles of cast-offs hide treasures. To get there, exit the metro station to the right and cross the train tracks. Best visited at the weekend.
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Sennoy Market
Cheaper and less atmospheric than Kuznechny Market, Sennoy Market is also centrally located. You’ll find fruit and veggies, as well as fresh-caught fish and fresh-cut meat.
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Art Stalls
Many artists set up their stalls on Krymsky Val opposite the entrance to Gorky Park, particularly on Saturday and Sunday. Unlike at Izmailovsky Park, this is more arts than crafts.
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northern market
The town's two main markets, the central market and the northern market, sell food, produce and clothes (the sort that will make you say, 'So that's where they get it!').
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central market
The town's two main markets, the central market and the northern market, sell food, produce and clothes (the sort that will make you say, 'So that's where they get it!').
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Sochi's Market
Has fresh fruit and vegetables. Try fresh pomegranate juice in season and for nibbles churchkhela, very tasty sticks of nuts coated with fruit jelly.
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Upper Market
Here you can gorge on shashlyk and large, filling Balkarsky khichiny (Balkar style stuffed flatbread) for less than R75.
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Vernisazh Market
Good value, but rather far-flung, this market has a huge collection of handicrafts, knick-knacks, souvenirs, clothing and art.
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