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The contract with Exhibition Corporation, the U.S. has provided free land for the construction of the pavilion and doing landscape design of the site. For everything else you have to pay. Construction of the Soviet pavilion at a cost of $ 4 million, and it was the biggest and most popular of the foreign pavilions. American pavilion cost $ 3 million. The construction work involved local contractors who worked under the guidance of the Soviet representatives.

4. December 5, 1938. Soviet officers and engineers with the children working on the construction of the pavilion, gathered for a rally dedicated to the two-year anniversary of the second constitution of the USSR. At a rally attended by Boris Iofan.
6. About 800 people gathered for a rally at the flag-raising on the Soviet pavilion under construction. Through loudspeakers broadcast greeting speech Kalinin.
7. Banquet after the meeting was held in the office building of the exhibition. Soviet family at the banquet. One would like to add - typical. >