Giant Lenin portrait hung in the main gate of the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (VDNKh), Moscow
The central arch of a monumental gate, topped by the 'Worker and Kolkhoz Woman' statue and lettered 'Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR', is filled by a portrait of Lenin several storeys tall. Hung across the entrance to an exhibition of economic achievement, the portrait lends Lenin's authority to the display behind it (transfer).
- Date
- 1971
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Soviet state (Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR); the installing body is not named in the catalogue
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Medium
- Signs and banners
- Issuer type
- Party
- Regime
- Soviet Union
- Leader
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Fortepan (donor: Fortepan), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 3.0 (Fortepan site footer); covers the photograph only
Fortepan / Fortepan, ID 18540 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Text on the object
[Permanent gate frieze, partly hidden by the portrait:] ВЫСТАВКА ДОСТИЖЕНИЙ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА СССР
Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR
The portrait itself carries no lettering. The architectural inscription is read from an enlarged crop; some letters above the portrait are hidden.
