The Ivanovo Museum of Local History presents one of the medals received by Dmitry Burylin for his participation in the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893.

The medal is kept in a special aluminum case. The entire surface of the outer side is adorned with a thin floral pattern. The case and the medal were made by the Scovill Manufacturing Company in Waterbury, Connecticut. The diploma from the World’s Columbian Commission states,

The World’s Exposition was held in Chicago to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. The exhibition occupied a colossal area of 268.65 hectares, stretching for 2.4 kilometers along the shore of Lake Michigan. The number of its visitors reached 21.5 million people. Dmitry Gennadievich Burylin took part in the exhibition by the decision of the exhibition committee and at the invitation of Professor Putnam of Harvard University. He presented the products made at his factory and a portion of his numismatic collection, which he had been collecting for about thirty years at that time. The collection included over 9000 coins and medals. Burylin himself estimated it at 6,000 dollars. At the end of the exhibition, Dmitry Burylin was awarded two medals — for the fabrics and the numismatic collection.

Apart from Dmitry Burylin, other Ivanovo-Voznesensk manufacturers also took part in the exhibition, including the Gandurins, Kokushkins, Marakushevs, Garelins, Zubkovs, and Derbenyovs. According to their contemporaries, they presented their exhibits in a wooden carved terem house, which was built for the occasion and cost several thousand dollars.