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The All-Russia Exhibition Centre or '''All-Russian Exhibition Centre''' is a permanent general-purpose Trade Show in Moscow , Russia . It was initiated in the times of the Soviet Union and known under the name VDNKh , which stood for Russian "Vystavka '''D'''ostizheniy '''N'''arodnogo '''Kh'''ozyaistva SSSR", or "Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR ". The term "VDHKh" is still in use, including the name of a Moscow Metro station ( VDNKh ). The "All-Russia Exhibition Centre" is a state Joint-stock Company , officially abbreviated as GAO "VVC", which stands for "Gosudarstvennoye Aktsionernoye Obshchestvo 'Vserossiyskiy Vystavochny Centr'". VVC is a member of exhibition associations: IUEF (since 1991) and UFI (since 1997). HISTORY The exhibition was established in 1939 as the All-Union Agricultural Exposition (VSKhV, Vsesoyuznaya Selsko-Khozyaystvennaya Vystavka), but initially some details of the project were Eclectic . In 1954 many buildings of the VSKhV were reconstructed or built anew, but this did not solve the problem completely. Furthermore, the exhibition now was intended to propagate not just agricultural achievements, but also ones in many fields of science, technology and culture. Therefore, between 1955 and 1959 it was reconstructed once again, with significant contributions from major central and republican institutions, and expanded, to be opened for the public on June 16 1959 , under the new name "VDNKh". By 1989 the exhibition had 82 Pavilion s with the exhibition area of 700,000 square Metre s. Most of the pavilions were thematic, some of the largest being ''Engineering Pavilion'' (1954, included ''Space Pavilion'' since 1966), ''Atomic Energy Pavilion'' (1954), ''People's Education Pavilion'' (1954), ''Radioelectronics Pavilion'' (1958), ''Soviet Culture Pavilion'' (1964). In the Soviet times more than 300 national and international exhibitions, as well as many conferences, seminars and meetings of scientists and various specialists, were held in VDNKh each year. The exhibition was visited by about 11 million people per year, including 600 thousand foreigners. The most memorable feature of the exposition is the 25-meter-tall statue ''Worker and Woman-Kolkhoznik'' ("Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa") holding together the famous " Hammer And Sickle ". Vera Mukhina 's sculpture originally crowned the 35-meter-tall Soviet pavilion at the Exposition Internationale Des Arts Et Techniques Dans La Vie Moderne (1937) . It was well-known to the whole Soviet Union because it was used as the logo of '' Mosfilm '' studio. The VDNKh exposition was renamed to VVC on June 23 1992 . Today, the area of the VVC territory is 2,375,000 m², including 266,000 square metres of the exhibition area. |
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