Moscú (Москва)

Pavilion 1 (Central) was built based on the project of architects Yu.V.

Schuko and E.V. Stoliarov in 1954.

This is a historic and cultural monument of national significance.

The main pavilion of AUAE -39, which was built under the project of

architects Yu.V. Schuko and V. Gelfreikh, was distinguished by severe

and clear-cut architectural forms and its white walls.

A strong vertical 56 meter-high tower decorated with gold-plated cereal

pattern shot up in front of the entrance to the pavilion. The tower was

crowned by a 13-meter gold-plated sculpture group Tractor Driver and

Female Collective Farmer (sculptors R. Budilov and A. Strekavin).

Authors of the pavilion timed to AUAE 54, architects Yu. Shuko and E.

Stoliarov retained the principal idea of the design of the Main Pavilion at

AUAE-39, by complementing the best traditions of Russian classical

architecture with new accents reflecting the "empire spirit" of the 1950s.

Solemnity and grandeur, completeness and monumentality, simplicity

and laconism are inherent in architecture of the unique building of the

Central pavilion.

The pavilion crowned by the spire with the star is rising to almost 100

meters high by ledges resembling steps of a gigantic staircase, hovering

over the entire exhibition ensemble.

The building is framed by columns having different form and

architectural solution but blending with each other luckily from all sides

and at all three tiers.

Bronze flags are flaunting over the facade columns and at the basis of

the spire, and sculptures devoted to labor are placed at the corners of

the wide second-tier eaves.

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