Margarita Zharkikh, a student of the Department of Monumental Art at St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, has designed a mosaic panel on the facade of the Cultural and Business Center of the Azot Chemical Plant in Novomoskovsk, Voronezh Region, built in the post-war period. The project was completed as part of a student's thesis.
The theme of the mosaic composition is related to the activities of the working staff of the chemical plant "Azot". It was this enterprise that gave Novomoskovsk the status of a city of chemists.
At the moment, the remains of the Soviet-era mosaic are under a layer of paint and continue to deteriorate. The panel restoration project developed by Margarita Zharkikh will allow the chemical plant building and its monumental decoration to return to their original aesthetic concept and solve the problem of synthesizing the building's architecture and mosaic composition.
Before starting work, the student conducted a study, thanks to which the author managed to create a memorable emblem of the company's history. The project will show the modern viewer the importance of the work and discoveries of chemical scientists through a composition that embodies a number of important achievements of the entire Soviet monumental painting of the 1960s and 1970s.