gumnn.ru is the domain of the website of a Nizhny Novgorod shopping center, the "Central Department Store of Nizhny Novgorod" ("Glavny Universalny Magazin Nizhnego Novgoroda"), known to shoppers as the Gordeyevsky UniverMag (named after the Nizhny Novgorod settlement of Gordeyevka in the Kanavinsky district)[1][3]. The site was listed in the nn.ru directory[1], was active from 2001 to 2022[4], and captured the shopping center at two distinct stages: first as a construction project, then as an operating department store with a running news feed.

What the site looked like and what it offered

The earliest recorded snapshot, from 2001, opened with a Flash intro offering a skip option — the page title read "Glavny Universalny Magazin NIZHNEGO NOVGORODA www.gumnn.ru"[1]. The directory listing description of that period presented the site as a page about the construction of a large shopping center: the building's characteristics and features, the project's authors, facades and floor plans, construction progress, and a section for partner tenants along with a "Conference" section[1].

By the mid-2010s the site had turned into a news showcase for the now-operating Gordeyevsky UniverMag. The menu included the sections "News," "For Shoppers" (goods and services, useful information, a play room), "For Tenants" (application form, retail space), "Photo Gallery," "How to Find Us," "Feedback," "History and Prospects," "Careers," and "Site Map"[2][3]. As the home page reported in 2013, the "Raduga" ("Rainbow") children's play room on the 4th floor held puppet shows, bookable by phone at 414-65-27, with further information available at 414-65-27 and 241-09-89[2]. In 2014 the site listed the phone number 277-19-55 for a blood-donation drive and gave related addresses — www.deputatkondratiev.ru, www.гордеевский.рф, and gumnn.ru itself[3]. On the third floor of the new building, a stylist-image consultant held sessions, bookable by phone at +79103871010 and by email at marinamishukova@mail.ru[3].

Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet

In the nn.ru directory the site was listed in the /rub/ section[1]; the surviving samples of the Counter.nn.ru rating and the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day vote have no data on it recorded — this indicates only a gap in the available data, not an absence of traffic or participation. In substance, the site was tightly woven into the life of the Kanavinsky district: its pages regularly mentioned joint events with the district administration (the "Ty, moyo Kanavino!" ("You Are My Kanavino!") festival for Kanavinsky District Day[3]), with deputy Igor Kondratyev, himself a regular blood donor[3], and with the Regional Blood Transfusion Station named after N. Ya. Klimova — a "Donor Day" was held at the UniverMag regularly from 2007 onward and drew around 50 donors per session[2][3]. The department store also partnered with the "Veras" Center for Medical and Social Rehabilitation of Children, holding charity fairs run by the center's children[2], and with the "Deti bez mam" ("Children Without Mothers") foundation, for which a charity clothing sale fair was held[3].

How it closed

The last recorded substantive snapshot of the site is dated January 26, 2022: the home page still carried the title "Gordeyevsky UniverMag. News." and a feed of announcements running through January 2022 — "Chisto Luchisto," an anti-crisis offer for partner tenants, new departments opening[4]. The material contains no information about the site moving to another domain. As of the time this record was captured, the domain's status was determined to be "parked/empty," and the title of the page the domain serves is "Domain for sale. Buy at the Rucenter domain store"[4]: the domain has been put up for sale through the registrar and no longer hosts a substantive site.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2013 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2014 (archive)
  4. web.archive.org — Home page, 2022 (archive)