Gable mosaic, bd. Mihai Eminescu 3, Bălți

Gable mosaic, bd. Mihai Eminescu 3, Bălți Gable mosaic, bd. Mihai Eminescu 3, Bălți Gable mosaic, bd. Mihai Eminescu 3, Bălți Gable mosaic, bd. Mihai Eminescu 3, Bălți
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A gable mosaic over the entrance of a Soviet apartment block (bloc locativ) at bd. Mihai Eminescu 3, in the central residential cluster of Bălți. The panel shows stylised reddish bird/dove figures set against a granular field of white tesserae, with warm accents of red and ochre — a decorative, lyrical composition with no explicit narrative programme. The work belongs to the unusually dense group of late-Soviet facade mosaics applied to the gable ends of five-storey ‘Khrushchyovka’ prefab blocks in the central micro-district — a rare concentration, systematically photographed and released under CC0 by the photographer photobankmd. Bălți is Moldova's second city, the ‘northern capital’. Unlike some of its neighbours, this panel carries no established Russian title; the author and year are not documented.

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Bălți
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Bloc locativ, bd. Mihai Eminescu 3, Bălți

Photos: photobankmd (CC0)