History
On 9 March 1922, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee issued a decree on holding the All-Russian Agricultural and Artisanal Industrial Exhibition in 1923.
The exhibition was to be held on the territory of the vegetable gardens near the Krymsky Bridge, the gardenof the Golitsyn hospital, the Neskuchny Garden and the Vorobyovy Gory. The master plan was drawn up by the academician of architecture Ivan Zholtovsky, who also designed the exhibition pavilion "Machine Building", or "Hexagon".
On the territory of the future Gorky Park,38 pavilions were built, and a total of 255 buildings were placed on an area of more than 27 thousand square metres.
For the 100th anniversary of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, a book was designed and a font was developed based on handwritten captions to archive photos
