Mosaic "Victory" (metro station "Avtovo")

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Gulyakin, Valery Nikolayevich (photographer, 1959-).    
Mosaic "Victory" (metro station "Avtovo") [Izomaterial: electronic resource]: [photo] / photo VN Gulyakina. - Electronic graphic data (1 file: 9.8 MB). - St. Petersburg, 2013. -
Access mode: the Internet portal of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library.
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Mosaic "Victory" is located in the underground hall of the station "Avtovo" Petersburg metro, built in 1955 by the architects EA Levinson, AA Grushka and engineer SM Epstein. The theme of registration of the station is the defense of Leningrad. Chandeliers, lamps, lattice ornaments are decorated with laurel branches, gilded swords and other emblems of military valor. The end wall of the central underground hall is decorated with a mosaic panel "Victory" by the artists of VA Voronetsky and AK Sokolov. The panel depicts a woman with a baby in her arms - a symbol of peace. In the upper part - the inscription: "To the world - the world!", At the bottom part the inscription: "Our cause is right - we won!". In the lower corners of the panel on military shields are the years of the Great Patriotic War "1941" and "1945". Address: Stachek Ave., 90/2 (avtovo metro station) .
1. Petersburg Underground - Photos. 2. The people (the collection). 3. Memory of the Great Victory (collection). 4. St. Petersburg: pages of history (collection). 5. Territory of Russia: St. Petersburg, city (collection). 6. The Great Patriotic War - Perpetuation of memory - St. Petersburg, city - 1941 - 1945 - Photographs. 7. The Great Patriotic War - in the fine arts - 1941 - 1945 - Photographs. 8. Documentary photographs.
BBC 63.3 (2) 622y611
BBK 63.3 (2-2Pb) 6th611
Source of electronic copy: From private collection
Place for keeping the original: From private collection
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