gum

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GUM, the luxury mall next to Red Square, is full of shoppers — though many Western stores like Prada, Gucci and Christian Dior are closed — and restaurants and theaters do thriving business.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2022

Detsky Mir has one big advantage for recently-exfiltrated Soviet spies over better known department stores like GUM: It’s a toy store.

From Slate • May 31, 2018

Mike Aiken, who led GUM through much of its transformation, retired in 2015, and Wilkins, a Baptist preacher with a master’s degree in social work, took over.

From Washington Times • May 2, 2018

Oblivious to recent tensions, crowds of tourists, many Russian-speaking, wandered around the Kremlin walls and St. Basil’s Cathedral on Red Square and the nearby mall inside the famous GUM department store.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2018

GUM CISTUS.—The gum labdanum is procured from this shrub, and is its only produce used in medicine.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William