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VVTs
Former name of VDNkH is the Exhibition
of the Achievements of Domestic Industry. VDNkH was opened
in the thirties.
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It displayed the most characteristic artifacts of the
socialist style. In 1991, the exhibition was renamed VVTs
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Industrial exhibition are still held at this location
but today VVTs displays the achievements of foreign countries.
A great number of stores on its territory sell everything from one-kopeck items to Mercedes 600s
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Fountain of Friendship of Nations As in past, shining
figures of farm girls surround the Fountain of Friendship
of Nations. It was made by Z. Bazhenova, L. Bazhenova, A. Teneta, Z. Ryleyeva, I. Chaikov
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The Worker and the Farm Girl
The monument of
the Worker and the Farm Girl by the entrance
to the VVTs still demonstrates power and energy
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Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics The Cosmonautics Museum traces the
history of Russian rocketry and space exploration from the
1920s to the present day. The museum is housed in the base of the impressive monument To the Conquerors of Space, an enormous silver rocket soaring into the sky on a 100-meter tall stream of glistening Titanium.
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The museum was opened to commemorate the 20th
anniversary of Gagarin's first flight into orbit. The museum
charts the most important Russian and Soviet achievements in space exploration. You can see even Belka and Strelka, the dogs which had orbited the Earth before a man did it.