The bus stops that were built in Soviet times are not just some practical constructions. Some people consider them to be a piece of art. Most of these little masterpieces were created using mosaic technique. Naturally, this art couldn’t be developed in churches or any religious places during the Soviet epoch, so it was expressed in a different way. Most of those are created using actual coloured stones.
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The so-called ‘mushroom’ bus stop in the Crimea.
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Nice pics
Nice pics From Russia
Loveley mosaics, they remind me of the old times here in former Czechoslovakia.
I saw quite a few of those in rural areas of Moldova five or six years ago. I liked the mosaics of men and women engaged in farming activities or holding up handfuls or baskets of harvested crops or produce. The entire Moldovan countryside struck me as a beautiful but sad, melancholy place, and the chipped mosaics and faded, painted bus stops and signs just added to the surrealism.
I like the one where the guy wore the same outfit as the wall!
Don’t get me started on the conditions of roads in Chicago and New York.
Mushrooms!!