Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy is a permanent general purpose trade show and amusement park in Moscow, Russia. Between 1991 and 2014, it was also called the All-Russia Exhibition Centr
The main entrance to VDNKh
Ice rink in VDNKh
The central square
Pavilion of Kyrgyzstan
Seven Sisters (Moscow)
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The Seven Sisters are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style, also known as Stalinist "Empire style". They were built from 1947 to 1957. At the time of construction, th
Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy
…temporary. Oltarzhevsky was arrested, together with the Commissar for Agriculture and his staff, and eventually released in 1943. Later, he worked on the 1947-1953 Moscow skyscraper project. As 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 main building of Moscow State University, one of the Seven Sisters
Moscow skyscrapers plan 1 — Moscow State University 2 — Hotel Ukraina 3 — Kudrinskaya Square Building 4 — Ministry of Foreign Affairs 5 — Palace of the Soviets (never built) 6 — Zaryadye Administrative Building (never built) 7 — Leningradskaya Hotel 8 — Red Gates Administrative Building 9 — Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Building
Miniature sheet of the First Congress of Soviet Architects showing the Palace of the Soviets, 1937.
Moscow State University