VDNG
Vast Soviet-era exhibition park of colonnaded pavilions, fountains and woodland, now a festival hub.
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This guide to VDNG in Kyiv follows Maksym Bakhmatov, a stage comedian nicknamed the Icebreaker, who in June 2015 took charge of a sprawling Soviet exhibition ground buried in debt and cold pavilions. Along the way it reaches back to the 1950s, when a spired showcase was raised to glorify Soviet Ukraine, and to a pavilion that once held a working coal mine. Best heard facing the main pavilion and its golden star.
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