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Enter the territory of the ENEA. Visible in the Central pavilion.

the Exhibition immediately became the capital"s landmark and a favorite place of citizens. When-то here were filmed episodes movies" Подкидыш"," Светлый way"," Свинарка and пастух".

During the great Patriotic war the exposure and exhibition of the library were evacuated to Chelyabinsk. It opened again only in 1954 after reconstruction.

According to the project, by 1950 this place was supposed to erect a bronze monument of Stalin with a height of 30 meters.

But it was not to be: after death the bloody tyrant in 1953, many of the projects associated with his name, was eliminated.

By 1954 the area was increased to 207 hectares. There are several fountains:" Дружба peoples"," Каменный flower" and" Колос".

Many pavilions were rebuilt with a large number of what is soon to be named" архитектурными излишествами".

The Central pavilion (it was initially called the Main) was built in 1954 by architect Yury Shchuko and E. Stolyarova.

He had become a symbol of the fairest of the Constitution for the most beautiful and rich country. In 1950-е years, the new trends of time has made some changes in the ideological component of the main exhibition building.

was introduced the idea of state power and the triumph of victory. Her characters have become decorative elements in the form of a spire with a star and bronze banners.

the Pavilion has two symmetrical main facade with colonnades On both placed the medallions with the images of coats of arms of 16 Union republics.

In the center of the composition – cartouche with banners and arms of the Soviet Union, covered with multicolored enamel. The side facades are also decorated with colonnades.

At the corners of the second tier is a bronze sculptural group. The third layer ends 35-метровым gilded spire, topped by a sheaf of wheat and a star.

pavilion Exhibits placed in five halls. They talked about the victory of socialism in our country, prosperous and rich life of the working class and the kolkhoz peasantry.

After the Soviet Union ceased to exist, gradually all the interior of the pavilion was given to various commercial structures.

And in 2014 trade built inside the pavilion has been demolished.

75-летнему celebrate its anniversary, the liberation of the pavilion was organized a historical exhibition" Главная exhibition страны".

To the left is the fountain" Дружба peoples", they will look later.

Continue to remember the history of the show. The thaw began.

the Annual Grand plans ENEA shocking.

every year the exhibition became more and more interesting and impressive form. Thousands of exhibits were filled with new pavilions.

Foreign exhibition at the exhibition center attracted a huge number of visitors. And though it was mostly exposition of the socialist countries, but they had been interesting.

At each of such exhibitions visitors, handing out scarce for the time colorful plastic bags with the symbols of a particular country and ENEA.

Badges and brochures, advertising labels of different companies, ballpoint pens, and sometimes tasting of national dishes and drinks – all this created an incredible hype around the pavilions where the exhibition took place.

a Long line of people often stretched from the Main entrance. The fact of holding such international events is ideologically stressed the unity of the socialist camp.

the Revival of ENEA started in late 2013, when Vladimir Putin gave a unique exhibition complex of the Moscow government. The project of revival of the country"s Main exhibition was headed by Sergey Sobyanin.

On his initiative, the voting was declared open for the return of the exhibition of the historical name – VDNH, in which 90 percent of the participants supported the mayor.

From 2014 to 2016 passed the first stage of an extensive renovation. Was conducted high priority emergency work (saved from destruction more than 50 of the historic pavilions and facilities).

Restored 500 thousand square meters of asphalt, planted over 125 hectares of new lawn and over a million of flowers and shrubs, revived and created new flower beds, removed tons of garbage.

From 2017, and to this day is a large-scale reconstruction of infrastructure and landscaping, creating new development area, and the renovation of the historic pavilions.

the Total improvement area was 200 hectares, replaced by 130 kilometres of engineering communications, 27 kilometers of overhead wires hidden under the ground.