Bus-shelter mosaic, Pohrebea
A roadside bus shelter with a mosaic in Pohrebea, a village in the Coșnița commune of the Dubăsari district, central Moldova, attested in 1770; its name comes from the Russian „погребы” (cellars), after the half-buried dugout homes of the first Russian settlers. The village lies in the Nistru valley, among the Dubăsari-district settlements that stayed under Republic of Moldova control and sat on the front line of the 1992 War of Transnistria (a policeman from Pohrebea was decorated with the Order „Ștefan cel Mare”). Nothing is recorded about the shelter's mosaic: neither author, year, nor subject is documented, and the single photograph in the „Mosaics of Moldova” inventory (photo Alex Buretz) is not under a free licence, so the panel cannot be described from images. The work belongs to Moldova's tradition of rural mosaic bus stops: the bus stop was the village's gateway to the wider world, and many were clad in the 1960s–80s with polychrome mosaics by local, usually anonymous craftspeople.
- Neighborhood
- Pohrebea, r. Dubăsari