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About VDNKh Exhibition Pavilions

VDNKh — the 1954 Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy in Moscow — was the Soviet Union's gilded showcase: sixteen republic pavilions, the Friendship and Stone Flower fountains, and harvest mosaics clad in glass smalt and gold-leaf tesserae over red granite. Wheat-and-star reliefs and ultramarine-and-gold friezes turned propaganda into opulent ornament.

This design system distills that maximalist Stalinist Empire vocabulary into digital form — a deep ultramarine smalt ground, luminous metallic gold ornament, republic-blue and red-granite accents, and ornamental serifed type that honors the gilded, tessellated grandeur of the originals.

Learn more about the VDNKh Exhibition Pavilions style

Origin
Moscow, USSR (Eastern Europe)
Era
1950–1990 (opened 1954; Stalinist Empire style at its monumental peak)
Key figures
Soviet state architects of the VDNKh exposition · Stalinist-era mosaicists and gilders · Republic-pavilion fresco masters
Movements
Stalinist Empire style (Socialist Classicism) · Monumental mosaic art · Soviet exposition architecture

VDNKh Exhibition Pavilions design spec

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Typography

Marck ScriptHeadings
PT SerifBody
Noto SerifMono
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