The All-Russian Exhibition Centre - VVC for short - is a huge complex of pavilions, with a total area covering over one hundred and thirty square meters. It is the largest exhibition centre in Moscow and each year there are more than one hundred and fifty specialized exhibitions with a total attendance of about fourteen million people! The VVC All-Russian Exhibition Centre originally opened in 1939 and was called the "All-Union Agricultural Exhibition". In 1959 it was renamed to "Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR." It got its current name in 1992. The VVC has numerous important historical sites serving as a reminder of Russia’s heroic past. These include a monument by the sculptor Vera Mukhina "Worker and Collective Farm Girl", as well as fountains, the "Stone Flower" and the "best man of the Soviet peoples." Just as priceless is the building housing the All-Russian Institute of Technical Aesthetics, which gave life to the direction futurodizayna and cinema "Cinema Circuit." Exhibitions are held even in the reconstructed YAK-42.Close to the VVC is the Mall of Astronauts and the monument dedicated to the Conquerors of the Cosmos, as well as the famous hotel "Cosmos". The VVC Exhibition Centre also has dedicated pavilions to other CIS countries such as Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Azerbaijan.