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Eastern & Central Europe

The exchanges of Eastern and Central Europe reflect the region's complex history — from Habsburg-era bourses to post-Soviet financial markets.

26 exchanges
Exchange City Country Established Style
Kraków Cloth Hall (Sukiennice) Kraków Poland 13th century (brick hall 1358) Renaissance with Mannerist attic; neo-Gothic loggias (1875–1879)
Tallinn Exchange (Great Guild Hall) Tallinn Estonia 1410 Baltic Gothic / Hanseatic
Bedesten of Thessaloniki (Bezesteni) Thessaloniki Greece c. 1455–1459 Early Ottoman
Old English Court (Muscovy Company) Moscow Russia 1556 Medieval Russian (stone chambers)
Königsberg Stock Exchange (Königsberger Börse / Neue Börse) Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) Russia 1619 (institution); 1875 (present building) Upper-Italian Neo-Renaissance (with Classicist elements)
Saint Petersburg Bourse (Birzha) Saint Petersburg Russia 1703 Russian Neoclassical
Odessa New Exchange (Nova Birzha), now the Odesa Philharmonic Theater Odessa (Odesa) Ukraine Exchange chartered 1796; "New Exchange" building 1894-1899 Eclectic Venetian Gothic / Moorish (Oriental) Revival with Florentine Renaissance elements
Rybinsk Grain Exchange (Рыбинская хлебная биржа) Rybinsk Russia 1811 Provincial Neoclassicism (Old Exchange); Neo-Russian / Russian Revival with Art Nouveau elements (New Exchange)
Riga Stock Exchange (Rīgas Birža) Riga Latvia 1816 Venetian Renaissance Revival
Warsaw Commodity Exchange Warsaw Poland 1817 Neoclassical
Warsaw Stock Exchange (Giełda Papierów Wartościowych) Warsaw Poland 1817 Modern
Nizhny Novgorod Fair & Main Fair Building (Нижегородская ярмарка / Главный ярмарочный дом) Nizhny Novgorod Russia 1817 (Makaryev Fair from mid-16th c.; relocated to Nizhny Novgorod 1817; fair exchange committee from 1848) Neo-Russian (pseudo-Russian) revival, in the manner of 16th–17th-century Muscovite architecture; the original Montferrand ensemble was Russian Empire classicism
Old Stock Exchange, Breslau (Alte Börse / Stara Giełda) Wrocław (Breslau) Poland 1822 Late Neoclassicism (with neo-Renaissance elements)
Old Moscow Stock Exchange Building (Здание Московской биржи на Ильинке) Moscow Russia 1839 (exchange); building 1873–1875 Late eclecticism with a Neo-Renaissance and classicizing portico
Budapest Stock Exchange (Budapesti Értéktőzsde) Budapest Hungary 1864 Eclectic
Prague Stock Exchange (Burza cenných papírů Praha) Prague Czech Republic 1871 Functionalist (1938 building); Classical (current Burzovní palác at Rybná 14)
Athens Stock Exchange (Χρηματιστήριο Αθηνών) Athens Greece 1876 Neoclassical (original) / Modern (current)
Bucharest Stock Exchange (Bursa de Valori București) Bucharest Romania 1882 Beaux-Arts / Art Nouveau
Samara Grain Exchange (Самарская хлебная биржа) Samara Russia Exchange society chartered 1893; building completed 1898 Neoclassical (Russian Classicism)
Belgrade Stock Exchange (BELEX) Belgrade Serbia 1894 Historicist
Zagreb Stock Exchange (Zagrebačka Burza) Zagreb Croatia 1907 Neoclassical / Early Modernist
Moscow Commodity Exchange Moscow Russia Early 1990s Modernist
Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) Almaty Kazakhstan 1993 Modern Kazakh
Armenia Securities Exchange (AMX) Yerevan Armenia 2001 Post-Soviet
Banja Luka Stock Exchange (BLSE) Banja Luka Bosnia & Herzegovina 2001 Modern Balkan
Ukrainian Exchange Kyiv Ukraine 2009 Post-Soviet Commercial