It is located in East Administrative District directly in Sokolniki Park for Leisure and Recreation.

The American National Exhibition was the first international event to demonstrate some foreign achievements in the USSR.

Nikita Khrushchev and the US Vice President Richard Nixon officially opened the exhibition.

2 witnessed the legendary “kitchen debate” between Nixon and Khrushchev at the General Electric Company’s booth.

During the so-called “kitchen debate” America and the Soviet Union verbally jousted over which system was superior – communism or capitalism.

It was a round dome construction invented by American architect and engineer Richard Fuller.

The largest events displayed printing, chemical, engineering and machine-building, automobile and geodesic industries’ production.