Bus-shelter mosaic, Sverdiac

A Soviet-era mosaic on the bus shelter at Sverdiac, a small, largely Ukrainian-settled village (around 300 inhabitants) in Recea commune, Rîșcani district, in the north of Moldova. It belongs to the wave of mosaic-clad bus stops raised along Moldova's roads in the 1960s–1980s — the genre that, more than concrete relief or timber, came to define the Soviet roadside shelter in Moldova, each village dressing up the spot where it met the road to the wider world. The work is anonymous and undocumented: artist, year and the subject of the panel are all unrecorded. It appears in the „Mosaics of Moldova” (Buretz) inventory, photographed there by Nadejda Argint, but no freely-licensed image of the mosaic is available, so its appearance cannot be described from a verified source.

Tracks

Northern Moldova, Roadside Mosaics

Neighborhood

Sverdiac, r. Rîșcani