Master plan by Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky was approved in April, 1936, and the first show season was announced to begin in July, 1937. However, plans didn’t materialize, and 3 weeks before the deadline Stalin personally postponed the exhibition by one year (to August 1938).

It seemed that this time everything would be ready on time, and 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
1940 and 1941 seasons followed after the German invasion, July 1, 1941 the exhibition was closed – until the end of World War II. In October, 1948 the State ordered to renew the Exhibition, starting with the 1950 season.

Again, the opening was postponed more than once the first post-war season opened in 1954 (still as Agricultural exhibition)

Russia Soviet Photo PC 1956 VSKhV Fountain “Friendship”

1. Time Square
   
   


2. Manhattan
   
   


3. Flatiron Building