![]() ![]() These events attracted about 11 million visitors annually, including 600,000 guests from outside the Soviet Union. Each pavilion (including the 1939 "regions") had been dedicated to a particular industry or field: the Engineering Pavilion (1954), the Space Pavilion (1966), the Central Industrial Zones Pavilion (1955), the Atomic Energy Pavilion (1954), the People's Education Pavilion (1954), the Radioelectronics Pavilion (1958), the Soviet Culture Pavilion (1964).ĭuring Soviet times, each year VDNKh hosted more than 300 national and international exhibitions and many conferences, seminars and meetings of scientists and industry professionals. The 19 seasons followed but following German invasion in 1941 the exhibition was closed until the end of World War II.ġ939 pavilions, as presented in 1950 album and today:īy 1989 the exhibition had 82 pavilions with an exhibition area of 700,000 square metres. It finally opened on 1 August 1939, and was open to the public between 08:00 and 23:00 until 25 October with a daily attendance of 40,000. Īs a result, in August 1938 Nikita Khrushchev, addressing the assembled Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, declared that the site was not ready, and the opening was postponed until August 1939. Later, he worked on the 1947-1953 Moscow skyscraper project. Oltarzhevsky was arrested, together with the Commissar for Agriculture and his staff, and eventually released in 1943. The exhibition was considered too modest and too temporary. In 1938, a government commission examined the construction and decided that it did not suit the ideological direction of the moment. According to Oltarzhevsky's original plan, all of the pavilions were to be constructed from wood. Some pavilions and the 1937 entrance gates by Oltarzhevsky were torn down to be replaced with more appropriate structures (most pavilions were criticised for having no windows). It seemed that this time everything would be ready on time, but again the builders failed to complete their work, and regional authorities failed to select and deliver proper exhibits. ![]() However, plans did not materialise, and three weeks before the deadline Joseph Stalin personally postponed the exhibition by one year (to August 1938). The master plan by Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky was approved in April 1936, and the first show season was announced to begin in July 1937 and was designed as a "City of Exhibitions" with streets and public spaces, which was very common in the 1930s of the 20th century. An existing site (then known as Ostankino Park, a country territory recently incorporated into the city limits), was approved in August 1935. The exhibition was established Februas the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) ( Russian: Всесоюзная сельско-хозяйственная выставка Vsesoyuznaya selsko-khozyaystvennaya vystavka).
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