KAPKOV: VVC will rename back to VDNH

The All -Russian Exhibition Center will be returned to its old name - an exhibition of achievements of the national economy. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the head of the capital's Department of Culture Sergey Kapkov. "We want to return the name" Exhibition of achievements of the national economy "(VDNH), because we plan to make a park dedicated to the successes of the Russian Federation in certain industrial sectors, and this is the continuation of the story that architects of the past planned," the official said.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, with whom Kapkov visited the VVC on Wednesday, did not object to the initiative of the subordinate against the initiative. “Probably, it would be correct to call it not the VVC, but VDNH, returning the previous name,” the mayor noted.

The visit of officials to the VVC was connected with his recent transfer to the property of the city. Sobyanin said that this summer the authorities will begin to improve the object. “In the coming years, we will return these buildings and this territory, if not a pristine form, then at least significantly improve it,” the mayor promised.

Sobyanin also expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that "the territory of the VVC today has turned into a large Moscow not the best market." He stated that the most pavilions should be used for its intended purpose - for exhibitions, placing museum expositions and attractions. You should leave a place for trade, but everything should look "civilized", the official noted.

On December 19, 2013, speaking at the opening ceremony of a memorial plaque at the house of Leonid Brezhnev, Kapkov said that in Moscow they would immortalize all the leaders of the Soviet state . Nevertheless, to the question of the correspondent of the "faces" about the possible installation of the monument to Stalin, the official replied that the name of this historical figure "was sufficiently immortalized in Moscow" and the tombstone on Red Square is enough.