„Energetics” and „Art of Moldova” mosaic panels, „Energetik” Palace of Culture, Dnestrovsk

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Two large smalt mosaic panels — „Energetics” and „Art of Moldova” — set symmetrically about the entrance, at the ends of the main facade of the „Energetik” Palace of Culture in Dnestrovsk (Днестровск), the power-engineers' town on the left bank of the Dniester, beside the Moldavian Power Station (Slobozia district, Transnistria). Each panel measures 3.9 × 8.7 m. They are the work of the Ukrainian artists Yevhen Beznisko (a Lviv painter, 1937–2021) and Volodymyr Patyk (also of Lviv, 1926–2011), who began them in the spring of 1974. The two works of monumental art gave the standard-design building its individuality and quickly became a landmark of the town. ATTRIBUTION — correction note: the ARTA 2025 study (Aurelia Trifan) attributes the same 3.9 × 8.7 m Beznisko-and-Patik panels to „the Palace of Culture in Tiraspol, opened in 1970.” The official Transnistrian culture registry (culture.gospmr.org), however, places them unambiguously on the facade of the „Energetik” Palace in Dnestrovsk, dating their execution to 1974 (the „Energetik” building itself opened on 22 April 1970 — likely the origin of ARTA's „1970”). The same pair of authors, the same exact dimensions and the same two panel titles show this is one and the same work; ARTA appears to have confused the town (Tiraspol for Dnestrovsk) and taken the building's opening year as the mosaic's year. The Tiraspol Palace of Culture proper (a former House of Culture, reconstructed in 1993–1997) has no documented facade mosaic at all. The mosaic survives: the „Energetik” Palace is an active cultural institution, and the sources describe the panels in the present tense as a town landmark; no openly-licensed photograph of the panels is known.

Neighborhood
Dnestrovsk, Transnistria
Artist
Evgheni Beznisko și Volodimir Patik
Year
1974
Building
Palatul de Cultură „Energetik”, str. Stroitelilor 19, Dnestrovsk (Днестровск), r. Slobozia