Expocentre, Exhibition center in Central Administrative Area, Moscow, Russia
Expocentre is an exhibition complex on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment in Moscow, with a long rectangular main hall under shallow domed skylights, lower flat-roofed halls with blue glass roof sections, and a curved glass-fronted tower. It has nine pavilions and 32 congress halls, and three entrances: north, south and west.
The venue emerged from Soviet structures for international exhibitions and hosted major trade shows starting in 1964. From that foundation, an established system for business shows developed that continues today.
The company name Expocentre was registered in 1977, when the Soviet agency for foreign exhibitions became a national company in 1980. Its trade fairs carry short Soviet-era titles still used today, such as Khimia, Sviaz, Neftegaz and ProdExpo, and the complex received up to 2 million visitors a year.
The complex has three entrances: north, south and west. It stands on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment next to the Delovoy Tsentr metro station. The site covers about 250,000 m², with 165,000 m² of exhibition space across nine pavilions and 32 congress halls.
Expocentre held its own collection of late 19th-century Russian landscape painting, including works by Shishkin, Savrasov, Levitan and Polenov; on 22 April 2013 the collection was donated to Moscow State University. In 2005 the venue hosted the 72nd Congress of UFI, the global exhibition industry association it joined in 1975.
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