„The Awakening” mosaic, Mocra House of Culture
The „Awakening” mosaic („Пробуждение” / „Deșteptarea”) on the Mocra House of Culture in the Rîbnița district, on the left bank of the Dniester (Transnistria). It was made in 1977 by the artists Aleksandr Kuzmin (A.N. Kuzmin) and Ion Tăburța (I.V. Tăburță) and covers more than 100 m². Unlike the ordinary mosaics set into the facades of other houses of culture, this one takes on the revolutionary theme head-on, and with rare force. A tree placed at the centre splits the panel into two epochs: on one side a peasant uprising — chains breaking, the fetters of bondage — on the other post-revolution development, with machinery, people in the fields, peaceful life and new buildings. According to the House of Culture's director, the scene springs from a local revolt against the landlord Voytenko, killed by the peasants, after which the village's leaders were sent to penal servitude in Siberia — „one of the largest uprisings on the territory of Transnistria.” NOTE on the theme's date: the House of Culture's director (via the „Novosti” newspaper, Rîbnița, 2022) places the scene at the 1918 uprising; the ARTA 2025 study (Trifan), which cites the same article, ties it to the 1905 revolution. The sources disagree on the year of the depicted event (1905 vs 1918); the mosaic's own execution year — 1977 — is recorded identically. The work survives in situ and is a stop on the Transnistrian Tourism Agency's official Rîbnița mosaic route. No openly-licensed photograph of the panel exists.
- Track
- Left Bank (Transnistria)
- Neighborhood
- Mocra, Transnistria
- Artist
- Aleksandr Kuzmin și Ion Tăburța
- Year
- 1977
- Building
- Casa de Cultură, str. Octombrie Roșu 27, satul Mocra, r. Rîbnița