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      🏛 Central Pavilion of VDNKh

      пр-т Мира, 119, стр. 1 (ВДНХ, павильон № 1)

      The main pavilion of the exhibition at the end of the Main Avenue — a multi-tiered building with a spire and a star on top.

      Central Pavilion of VDNKh
      © Dmitry Ivanov. · CC BY-SA 3.0
      Central Pavilion of VDNKh
      © Gennady Grachev from Moscow, Russia · CC BY 2.0
      • The pavilion was built for the opening of the renewed exhibition in 1954, designed by Georgy Shchuko and Yevgeny Stolyarov; with the spire it is 90 metres tall.
      • The multi-tiered silhouette with a gilded spire and star recalls the central tower of the Admiralty in Petersburg.
      • An avenue with 14 cast-iron fountains leads to the pavilion from the Main Entrance.
      • The pavilion received the name "Central" in 1964; the facades carry the USSR coat of arms and medallions with the arms of the Union republics.
      • Two medallions with the arms of the Karelo-Finnish SSR were removed in 1956 and put back only during the 2018 restoration.
      • In 2014 a forgotten huge canvas by Alexander Gerasimov, "The Second Congress of Collective Farmers and Shock Workers", was found in the basement.

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      • VDNKh in lights: the wheel at sunset and dinner

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