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St Petersburg
Expoforum:
Wager on
the strong
t Petersburg’s Expoforum is one
of the best and most advanced
convention and exhibition centres
in the world, hosting a range of major
business, sport and entertainment events.
Since opening in October 2014, the
Expoforum venue has won a global
reputation as a state-of-the-art universal
facility:
• 2017 – nominated in the Top 25 Event
Venues and Destinations to watch in 2018,
according to EventMB, a leading global
blog for event managers. ExpoForum is
the only establishment from Russia on
the list
• 2018 – shortlisted as Building of the
Year 2018, in the category ‘Architecture
of Culture’, organised by Archdaily, the
popular architecture portal
• 2018 - received the Federal award of
real estate in Russia – PROESTATE & CRE
Federal Awards in the Multifunctional
estate category
• 2018 - nominated the best convention,
exhibition and business centre in Russia
by the Russian Business Travel & MICE
Awards
• 2018 and 2019 – shortlisted at the UK
Exhibition News Awards 2018 and 2019,
Best International Venue category.
Expoforum is a major point on the
world map for business events.
Major international forums
attended by world leaders have chosen
Expoforum as their venue, including:
the St Petersburg International
Economic Forum; the Russian National
Congress of Cardiology; the 137th
Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union; the International Fishing
Industry Forum and Fishing Industry,
Seafood and Technology Exhibition;
meeting of the Intergovernmental
Council of the Eurasian Economic
Union, the 85th UFI Global Congress,
among others.
The convention and exhibition
centre can accommodate up to 30,000
pax. Outdoor exhibition space is
40,000sqm and indoor exhibition
space is 50,000sqm with three
exhibition pavilions of 13,000sqm
each, connected by covered passage for
comfortable logistics. A well-developed
infrastructure includes a Hilton Hotel
with 441 rooms, restaurants, bars, and
a customs and logistics complex, which
has allowed Expoforum to become a
fully-fledged MICE cluster.
Expoforum, now a member of the
INCON group, launched a PCO service at
the recent IMEX Frankfurt tradeshow.
Exhibition
complex
Lenexpo
enexpo is one of the largest
exhibition facilities in Russia
today, located on the coast of the
Gulf of Finland. The unique advantages
include its central location in St
Petersburg and a capacity to organise
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aquatic exhibitions. Lenexpo is located on
a territory of 15 hectares, of which six are
open air exhibition space.
Lenexpo is home to strategic projects of
the ExpoForum International Company:
the permanent location of the Import
Replacement and Localisation Center,
the Chinese Business Center, and Elena
Berezhnaya’s Ice-Skating Theater for
Children and Youth.
In June 2018, two fields for mini-
football, each with an area of 38x18
metres, were opened at one of the
pavilions. The football centre includes
locker rooms, showers and parking
spaces.
Lenexpo is also home to the Tsing
Grand Restaurant, the largest Chinese
cuisine restaurant in Europe, as well
as the largest souvenir shop in St
Petersburg.
In 2018, both venues between them
hosted 200 events of different formats,
attended by more than 1.4m people. The
largest projects included:
• St Petersburg International Gas Forum
• St Petersburg International Energy
Forum
• St Petersburg International Economic
Forum
• International Conference of REMIC
Corporation Real Estate Management
• Agrorus International Agricultural
Exhibition and Fair
• SmartTransport International
Innovative Forum of Passenger Transport
and others.
In 2018 both venues celebrated
important anniversaries – Lenexpo its
50th and Expoforum already notching up
10 years as a business.
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