Description
The mug has a perfectly smooth, as if polished surface. Each facet is practically a lens, with increasing curvature from top to bottom. This creates a very interesting effect with drinks. For clarity in photo 7, we demonstrated it by placing inside the mug a small figure of a fiery bull. The quality of the manufacture of the mug indicates a highly technological production. Analyzing the state of glass factories in that period, it can be assumed that the mug is made at the Dyatkovo Crystal Plant. The mug is a pair for No. 429. It is comfortable in the hand, as with grip on the handle, and with the German - over the side surface. The shape of the mug and the contiguity of the lateral facets to the bottom were subsequently used in beer mugs "circles ", only the number of faces was changed.
The history of the Exhibition, with which this mug is associated, begins in 1927 at the Fifteenth Congress of the CPSU (B.).
In addition to the NEP abolition, the expulsion of Trotsky and his followers, the approval of the directives for the creation of the first five-year plan, a decision was made to collectivize agriculture. The decision to build the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition was made in 1935 at the Second All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers-Strikers. The exhibition was decided to open on August 1, 1937, on the 20th anniversary of Soviet power.
Works on the creation of the exhibition began in the second half of 1935. The pavilions were made using typical wooden parts. The work went slowly, but by July 1937 there were already pavilions of Byelorussia, Ukraine, the common pavilion of the Transcaucasian republics, Tatarstan, Turkmenistan, Mechanization, the Main Pavilion, the Beetle Pavilion, Vegetables, etc. The exhibition was not completed to the deadline, August 1938. At the same time decided to extend the service life of the pavilions up to 5 years.
It was impossible to open exhibition by August 1, 1938 too, and the opening was delayed for another year. Four months before the final opening of the Exhibition, NS Khrushchev, who just took the post of first secretary of the Central Committee of Ukraine, inspected the Ukrainian pavilion and was dissatisfied with them. "Ukraine is the breadbasket of the Soviet Union," he said, "and the pavilion is worse than the Moscow pavilion." It should be noted that before that.in 1937, when Khrushchev was the first secretary of the MC VKP (b), he ordered the Moscow pavilion to be broken and rebuilt, because he was worse than the rest, in particular, the pavilion of Ukraine.
In July 1939, less than a month before the opening of the Exhibition, the sculpture of Vera Mukhina "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" was transported from Paris, where she enjoyed great success at the Expo-37, and mounted on the driveway to the main entrance of VSHV. Due to lack of time, much to the chagrin of VI Mukhina, the height of the pedestal for the statue was only ten meters (as opposed to 34 meters in Paris).
The forgotten and inconspicuous wasteland of the northeastern border of Moscow has turned into a unique exhibition city, where on 52 hectares 52 pavilions not similar to each other and 200 different buildings were presented. On one territory you could see the best achievements of the national economy, enjoy a walk through the green parks, admire the cascade of ponds.
August 1, 1939 All-Union agricultural exhibition was, at last, solemnly opened. The ceremony was attended by 10 thousand people, including prominent leaders of the party and the government of the Soviet Union. In the first 85 days of the Exhibition, it was visited by more than 3.5 million people!