The monumental building, with its modern style, was ravaged by flames on Friday evening.
Earlier, armed men in camouflage burst into Crocus City Hall on the outskirts of Moscow and opened fire.
There are at least 40 dead, according to the Russian press, and security services are still on alert on site while firefighters battled the flames.
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Located in the Krasnogorsk district and more specifically in the “Crocus” business center more than 16 kilometers from the center of Moscow, this concert hall was inaugurated in 2009 by the entrepreneur Araz Agalarov, an Azerbaijani billionaire, and carries officially the name of the singer Muslim Magomayev (1942-2008), nicknamed the “Soviet Sinatra” and also from Azerbaijan.
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The concert hall, which has hosted hundreds of Russian pop singers over the past 15 years, can accommodate 6,000 to more than 9,000 visitors, and has several restaurants.
In 2013, it was the location of the Miss Universe international beauty contest, won that year by Venezuelan Gabriela Isler.
Among the guests were Donald Trump, future president of the United States, and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, president of the jury.
When it was launched, Crocus City Hall, part of a large luxury shopping center, was the symbol of a prosperous Russia with a growing middle class.
An improbable “millionaires’ fair” was organized there, as glitzy as you could imagine, where yachts and luxury limousines were on display and where champagne flowed freely.