Moscow May Day at VDNKH (2/2) Sakura Blossom - Vostok Rocket - Stone Flower - Friendship of Nations

VDNKh is located in Ostankinsky District of Moscow, less than a kilometer from Ostankino Tower. It is served by VDNKh subway station, as well as by Moscow Monorail. Cosmonauts Alley and the Worker and Kolkhoz Woman statue are situated just outside the main entrance to VDNKh. It also borders Moscow Botanical Garden and a smaller Ostankino Park, and in recent years the three parks served as a united park complex.

The exhibition was established on February 17 1935, as the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV) An existing site (then known as Ostankino Park, a country territory recently incorporated into the city limits), was approved in August 1935. The master plan by Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky was approved in April 1936, and the first show season was announced to begin in July 1937 and was designed as a "City of Exhibitions" with streets and public spaces, which was very common in the 1930s of the 20th century. However, plans did not materialize, and three weeks before the deadline Joseph Stalin personally postponed the exhibition by one year (to August 1938). It seemed that this time everything would be ready on time, but again the builders failed to complete their work, and regional authorities failed to select and deliver proper exhibits. Some pavilions and the 1937 entrance gates by Oltarzhevsky were torn down to be replaced with more appropriate structures (most pavilions were criticized for having no windows). According to Oltarzhevsky's original plan, all of the pavilions were to be constructed from wood. In 1938, a government commission examined the construction and decided that it did not suit the ideological direction of the moment. The exhibition was considered too modest and too 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 opening was postponed until August 1939. It finally opened on 1 August 1939 and was open to the public between 08:00 and 23:00 until 25 October with a daily attendance of 40,000. The 1940 and 1941 seasons followed but following the German invasion in 1941, the exhibition was closed until the end of World War II.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition_of_Achievements_of_National_Economy

Route on Google Maps
https://goo.gl/maps/1NfBS86LXjnfNjzq9

00:04 Sakura Cherry Blossom
01:37 Japanese Garden in Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences
02:01 Japanese Rock Garden
00:03:40 Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences
00:04:52 Ostankino Tower
00:05:10 Persian Walnut Tree in Botanic Garden
00:07:19 Chapel Church of St. Basil the Great at VDNH
00:08:21 Girl posing in the shadow of a tree
00:09:11 Pavilion Space
00:10:46 Pavilion Transport USSR
00:10:59 Helicopter Mi-8
00:11:26 Vostok Rocket
00:12:30 Fighter Aircraft Sukhoi Su-27 (NATO reporting name Flanker)
00:14:15 Spacecraft Buran (meaning Snowstorm of Blizzard)
00:15:15 Mid-range passenger jet Yakovlev Yak-42 (NATO reporting name Clobber)
00:15:24 Stone Flower Fountain
00:16:07 Pavilion Ukraine
00:18:49 Friendship of Nations Fountain
00:22:16 Pavilion Armenia
00:24:19 Pavilion №1 Central
00:24:34 Vladimir Lenin Monument
00:24:47 Main entrance arch VDNH
00:26:11 1-y Poperechnyy Proezd
00:28:17 Space Conquerors Monument
00:28:35 Street Musicians
00:28:54 Fire Show
00:29:24 metro station VDNKh

The first part of Walk - Moscow May Day Walk | International Workers' Day at VDNKh (1/2) | Russia, 2021 https://youtu.be/Nsgf2Yp9dGE

Filmed 1 May 2021, Moscow Russia

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