Friendship of Nations Fountain, Moscow
The All Russia Exhibition Centre is a permanent general-purpose trade show in Moscow, Russia. The exhibition was established February 17, 1935 as the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. The centre’s first exhibition was in August 1939 and was open until July 1, 1941 the German invastion of Russia, the exhibition was closed until the end of World War II. The centre is a state joint-stock company, officially abbreviated as GAO "VVC", which stands for "Gosudarstvennoye Aktsionernoye Obshchestvo 'Vserossiyskiy Vystavochny Centr”. By 1989 the exhibition had 82 pavilions with the exhibition area of 700,000 square metres. Each pavilion including the 1939 "regions" had been dedicated to a particular industry or a field: the Engineering Pavilion, the Space Pavilion, the Atomic Energy Pavilion, the People's Education Pavilion, the Radioelectronics Pavilion, the Soviet Culture Pavilion. During Soviet times, each year VDNKh hosted more than 300 national and international exhibitions and many conferences, seminars and meetings of scientists and industry professionals. These events attracted about 11 million visitors annually, including 600,000 guests from outside the Soviet Union. The "Radioelectronics" exhibition hall for some years housed the working prototypes of the most advanced ES EVM computers to date, which were shared by many research organizations right on the premises. The most memorable feature of the exhibition site was the statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman “Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa” featuring the gigantic figures of a man and woman holding together the famous "hammer and sickle". The sculpture, which reaches 25 meters toward the sky, was created by Vera Mukhina and originally crowned the 35-meter-tall Soviet pavilion at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937) The statue was featured on a logo of Mosfilm, Russia's largest movie studio. In 1992, VDNKh was renamed, receiving its current name VVC. It occupies 2,375,000 square metre
Size: 5400px × 3600px
Location: Moscow, Russia
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