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 Stali