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  2. Bast shoe - Wikipedia

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    Lubok depicting a peasant making lapti (Russian bast shoes). Close-up of a modern lapti-maker, using a wooden shoe last and cotton round braid . Most shoes of stiffer bast are woven on the bias , with strips running diagonally, but she is weaving on the grain , with braids running along the sole (see example , and both in one shoe )

  3. Eliseyev Emporium (Saint Petersburg) - Wikipedia

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    Elisseeff Emporium in St. Petersburg is a large retail and entertainment complex, including a famous food hall, constructed in 1902–1903 for the Elisseeff Brothers.. Located at 56 Nevsky Prospekt, the complex consists of three buildings, although the corner one is the structure that is referred to as Elisseeff's store or shop (Елисеевский мага

  4. GUM (department store) - Wikipedia

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    GUM (Russian: ГУМ) [a] is a shopping center in Moscow, Russia. It was also the main department store in many cities of the former Soviet Union; similarly named stores operated in some Soviet republics and in post-Soviet states. The most famous GUM is the large store facing Red Square in the Kitai-gorod area – itself traditionally a mall of ...

  5. Old Russians - Wikipedia

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    Proponents of this concept cite the historically disputed use of a common Old Russian language, close regional political and economic ties, a common spiritual and material culture, a common Russian Orthodox religion, a shared system of law, customs, traditions, and warfare, a common struggle against external enemies and the awareness of the unity of the Rus depicted in the sources as ...

  6. List of defunct retailers of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Tape World – a store concept created by Trans World Entertainment in 1979 but later replaced by its f.y.e. store concept [155] Tower Records – founded in 1960 in Sacramento, California ; all retail stores were liquidated in 2006 [ 156 ] and the name was purchased for use as an online-only retailer

  7. Valenki - Wikipedia

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    Before the Russian Revolution, the production of valenki was concentrated in the Semenov district of Nizhny Novgorod province, in the Kineshma District of Kostroma province, and in the Kukmor in Kazan province. In 1900, contemporary jackboot fulling factories of Russia produced 1.4 million pairs of valenki for the value of 2.1 million rubles. [3]

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  9. Westland Mall (Ohio) - Wikipedia

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    Westland Mall is a demolished 860,000-square-foot (80,000 m 2) shopping center located at the intersection of U.S. Route 40 and Interstate 270 on the west side of Columbus, Ohio.