Expocentre

In 1959 Sokolniki Park in Moscow hosted the first national exhibition of US industrial products, opened by Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon. From the Soviet side, the show had been coordinated by the Department for Foreign Exhibitions of the USSR Chamber of Commerce. The Department was later turned into the Agency for International and Foreign Exhibitions in USSR.

In 1964 Expocentre produced its first international trade show called Stroidormash (the Road-Building Machinery Show) which put on display the latest road-building machinery and equipment. It had been co-organized by the National Committee for Construction, Road-Building and Utilities Engineering under the USSR Ministry of Construction.

The company name Expocentre was registered in 1977, as the Agency for International and Foreign Exhibitions in USSR had been turned into the Expocentre Company (a National Company since 1980).

• In 1945 a new committee was set up within the USSR Chamber of Trade, called a Standing Committee on Exhibitions, and in 1947 on its basis a Department for Foreign Exhibitions (the Exhibitions Department since 1949) was established.
• In 1969 the USSR Chamber of Commerce set up the Agency for International and Foreign Exhibitions consisting of the Department for Foreign Exhibitions, Department for International Exhibitions and other units.
• In 1991, Expocentre became a joint stock company.

Expocentre has nine exhibition pavilions, and multifunction halls.

• 1959–1964 Aleksandr V. Saag
• 1964–1970 Konstantin I. Smolyaninov
• 1970–1977 Khachik G. Oganesyan
• 1973–1977 Aleksandr K. Pavlenko
• 1977–1979 Lev K. Garusov
• 1979–1984 Vladimir M. Korsikov
• 1984–1990 Stanislav V. Mikhailov
• 1990–2002 Igor S. Denisov
• 2002–2012 Vladislav L. Malkevich
• 2012-present Present Sergei S. Bednov[1]

Expocentre cooperates with many international exhibition companies and groups.

• Expocentre ZAO
• Expocentre ZAO jubilee website