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Vystavka Dostizheniy Narodnogo Khozyaystva (VDNKh) (Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy; , pronounced "ve-de-en-kha"), is a permanent general purpose trade show and amusement park in Moscow, Russia. Between 1991 and 2014 it was also called the All-Russia Exhibition Centre. It is a state joint-stock company.
VDNKh may refer to:
- The name of the exhibition centers in former Soviet Republics
- VDNKh (Russia), known as All-Russia Exhibition Center in 1992–2014
- National Complex Expocenter of Ukraine (formerly "VDNH of the Ukrainian SSR")
- Exhibition Pavilion, Minsk (formerly "VDNKh of the Byelorussian SSR")
- VDNKh (Metro), a Moscow Metro station.
VDNKh is a Moscow Metro station in Ostankinsky District, North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. It is on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, between Alekseyevskaya and Botanichesky Sad stations.
VDNKh opened on 1 May 1958. It is named after the nearby Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy , also known as (abbreviated VDNKh). The station features pylons faced with white marble and decorated with circular ventilation grilles. VDNKh was designed by Nadezhda Bykova, I.Gokhar-Kharmandaryan, Ivan Taranov, and Yu. Cherepanov. VDNKh it is one of the deepest Metro stations being situated below ground. It is also one of the busiest stations, serving 107,377 passengers a day in 2009. Originally, this station was planned to be richly decorated in the manner of the other stations built in the 1950s, with mosaics by venerable artist Vladimir Favorsky along the insides of the arches between the pylons. However, in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's attack on decorative "extras," the mosaics were crudely coated with incongruous thick green paint.
The original circular vestibule is on the west side of Prospekt Mira, in front of the Space Obelisk. A second entrance was added at the southern end of the station in 1997.