House-of-Culture mosaic, Negureni

A mosaic on the house of culture in Negureni, the seat of its commune in the Telenești district of central Moldova, on the Răut river. Three works survive on the building's concrete facade: a mosaic signboard reading, in Moldovan Cyrillic script, „КАСА ДЕ КУЛТУРЭ ДИН с. НЕГУРЕНЬ 1974” (House of Culture of Negureni village, 1974); an emblem-crest with Soviet motifs (a shield with wheat ears, a stylised bird and a ribbon); and a large figurative panel with a folk-dance scene — a woman in traditional costume, embroidered waistcoat and a skirt with a green-and-yellow zig-zag hem, caught mid-dance with arms raised, and a seated man playing a flute, against a pale ground with stylised trees and hills. The date 1974 is recorded in the mosaic plaque itself, so it is firm; the artist, however, remains undocumented. Negureni is first attested in 1606 under the name Negrești, and had 1,832 inhabitants in 2024. The four openly-licensed photographs (Gganebnyi, CC BY-SA 4.0; one geotagged at 47.6007, 28.5107) show the dated plaque, the emblem and the dance panel.

Track

Central Moldova (Codru)

Neighborhood

Negureni, r. Telenești

Year

1974

Building

Casa de Cultură, Negureni, r. Telenești

Photos: Gganebnyi (CC BY-SA 4.0)