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Making New Space at the Soviet Agriculture Expo.
(From The Moscow Times)
The park opened in 1939 as a showcase for Soviet agricultural achievements, expanding in the 1950s to include monuments to construction and industrial feats. Today, its scattered pavilions are picturesquely crumbling, and the stalls within sell a bewildering range of goods from Chinese jewelry to honey.
The complex, known since 1992 as the All-Russia Exhibition Center, or VVTs, is now getting its first new pavilion since the Soviet era as part of a city-funded plan to modernize the park, still often referred to by its earlier name, VDNKh.
The new pavilion, a huge, glass-walled structure that will cover nearly 60,000 ...
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- Picture from: Getty Images STR August 6, 2009 700+ words
...worker inspects a giant leg of a worker from a famous Soviet sculpture group "A Worker and a Female Collective Farmer" by Vera Mukhina in Moscow on August 6, 2009. This statue has been created for the Agricultural Exhibition in Paris in 1937, and has been...
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