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