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TsUM undergoes finishing touches on 4-year remodeling before it reopens

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A man works in the TsUM store during reconstruction on Oct. 26.
Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

After four years of redevelopment, Kyiv’s TsUM store will reopen as a brand new concept for Ukraine on Khreshchatyk Street in the coming days.

TsUM, Kyiv’s iconic department store, still looks much the same on the outside. But customers, when they reenter the store for the first time in four years, will find the interior unrecognizable.

Detail-oriented and with a heavy international influence, the inside of Ukraine’s European-style department store — still known by the acronym of its Soviet name of Central Department Store — has almost been completed, with retailers due to move into the site soon.

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