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Friendship of the People and StoneFlower fountains at VDNKh to get a facelift

15 October 2018

At VDNKh comprehensive restoration work will take place on the Friendship of the People and Stone Flower fountains for the first time in more than 60 years. Specialists will restore the gold smalt lining of the fountains’ decorative pieces and upgrade the engineering mechanism by the onset of the 2019 summer season.

The Friendship of the People and Stone Flower fountains are on the nation’s cultural heritage list. The Department of Cultural Heritage (Mosgornaslediye) will be overseeing the makeover job, said Head of the Department of Cultural Heritage Alexei Yemelyanov. This past summer, the 14 fountains lining VDNKh’s Central Alley and the unique Golden Spike fountain, which had been out of action for over 30 years, at last started flowing again.

As the fountain season came to a close, it was high time to get down to restoring VDNKh’s main fountains — the Friendship of the People and Stone Flower. Until recently only emergency repairs or patching up jobs were carried out so that they looked alright when it came to their appearance. The fountains haven’t really been properly serviced for 64 years. Some of the repairs to do up the fountains so that they can more or less take on their original appearance will be carried out in workshops.

The Friendship of the People project includes the restoration of the granite facing of the bowl and waterfall pools, as well as the frame supporting the 16 figures of young women, which has never been renovated before. The 16 golden statues, each of them symbolising a national republic in the Soviet Union, will be dismantled and taken to workshops where they will undergo restoration.


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