Yevgen Nikiforov - Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics
Yevgen Nikiforov01A detail of "Kobzar," a 1964 mosaic by Stepan Kyrychenko and Nadiia Klein at the Shevchenko Cinema in Kiev, Ukraine.
Yevgen Nikiforov02A sci-fi mosaic from the 1980s adorns an administrative building at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, Yuzhnoukrainsk.
Yevgen Nikiforov03A family scene by an unknown artist occupies the side of a residential building in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.
Yevgen Nikiforov04The 1977 mosaic "Sunrise" by Ivan Lytovchenko decorates a grocery store in Pripyat.
Yevgen Nikiforov05Halyna Zubchenko and Hryhorii Pryshedko's "Movement" mosaic from 1969 decorates the Nauka Sport Complex in Kiev, Ukraine.
Yevgen Nikiforov06Artists Denys Merpert and Iakiv Skrypkov designed this 1967 mosaic for Friendship Square at Artek International Children Center in Gurzuf.
Yevgen Nikiforov07A 1970s mosaic by an unknown artist covers a building at ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, a steel company in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine.
Yevgen Nikiforov08"Lenin and Science" was created in the 1960s by artist Serhii Svitlorusov for the B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Yevgen Nikiforov09A series of mosaics created between 1968 and 1980 cover 17-27 Peremohy Avenue in Kiev.
Yevgen Nikiforov10Artists Lel Kuzminkov and Valentyn Konstantinov created "The Sails" in the 1970s for the aquatic sports station in Mariupol, Ukraine.
Yevgen Nikiforov11A bus station mosaic by an unknown artist in Rezervne, Crimea.
Yevgen Nikiforov12A 1970s mosaic by Vadym Vasyliev welcomes shoppers into a sporting goods store.
Yevgen Nikiforov13Stepan Kyrychenko and Roman Kyrychenko designed this 1978 mosaic at the House of Culture in Shevchenkove, Odessaa oblast.
Yevgen Nikiforov14The 1975 mosaic "Steelmakers" by Lel Kuzminkov and Valentyn Konstantinov at a train station in Mariupol, Ukraine.
Yevgen Nikiforov15Detail of "Steelmakers" by Lel Kuzminkov and Valentyn Konstantinov.
