Lenexpo

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LENEXPO (103 Bolshoy Avenue of Vasilievsky Island), open joint-stock company (from 1993), leading Russian exhibition company. Founded in 1968 in preparation for the International INRYBPROM exhibition, which took place in Leningrad (420 companies participated from 23 countries). It originally consisted of six pavilions specially built by architects S.I. Evdokimov and E.I. Travnikov. Over the years, the complex was enlarged. Lenexpo organised over 20 exhibitions annually throughout the 1980s, most of them oriented toward economic interests of the country's Northwest region. In the 2000s, the number of exhibitions increased to 60-65 a year, with 7,000-7,500 exhibits from 55-60 countries. Exhibitions are aimed at both the general public (Russian Farmer, Man and Woman, Zoosphere, Flowers and City), and at specialists (Energetics and Electrotechnics, Welding, Polygraphy, River Navigation). Visitors can number as much as two million people, with over 2,000 exhibitions in 1968-2002.

V. S. Solomko. Evdokimov Sergey Ivanovich
Travnikov Evgeny Ivanovich
Bolshoy Ave of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 103
1968