What is noteworthy pavilions VDNH

Today, this vast territory in the northern part of the capital is officially named "All-Russian Exhibition Center." But in Soviet history, it is better known as VDNH - "All-Union Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy." Exhibition pavilions VDNH very brightly reflect the era in which they were erected. It was the showcase of the entire Soviet Union, the image in which a great power wanted to present itself to the whole world. Both external and internal.

Pavilions of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements - a legacy of the historical epoch

Perhaps there is no second place in all of the vast Moscow where the architectural legacy of the Stalin era would have been represented with such fullness, in such concentration and in such diversity. It's just an architectural museum in the open. Who wants to understand the content and feel the color of forever gone time, that should come to VDNH. The map of the pavilions remained the same, as once the famous Moscow architect Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Oltarzhevsky had arranged them, the draft of which was accepted for execution after the competition. He was not able to complete what he had started. The grandiose construction on 136 hectares was not completed in time, the architect was repressed and exiled to Vorkuta. Pavilions VDNH only at first glance are located chaotically, but their layout is designed so that the visitor gradually unfolded thematic filling of each object. The All-Union Agricultural Exhibition was a unique complex of facilities, equal to which there was not only in Moscow, but there were not so many in the whole world. Pavilions VDNH had to demonstrate the content not only on the sectoral principle, but also reflect the national color of the republics of the Soviet Union, each of which was represented at the exhibition. In total, at the time of the opening, there were 250 different thematic structures, as well as avenues, reservoirs and fountains. The opening of the exhibition took place on August 1, 1939, which was an event of great national importance. With a salutatory speech Molotov addressed the audience. The exhibition was planned as a permanent one, but after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War it was closed. Pavilions VDNH again received visitors only seven years later, when everything was restored in its original form. In the post-war period, works on reconstruction and further development took place on the territory, new pavilions appeared. They reflected the new time. To this day, one of the most important and most visited is the pavilion "Cosmos". In the nineties, a significant part of the architectural heritage was irretrievably lost.

Pavilions of Exhibition of National Economic Achievements: opening hours

At present, the All-Russian Exhibition Center is open for reception of visitors daily on weekdays from 9 am to 9 pm. On weekends and public holidays until 10 pm. Pavilions on its territory open at 10 am and work until 6 pm on weekdays, until 7 pm on weekends and on holidays. In summer, the territory is open until 11 pm, and all pavilions work an hour longer.