Portraits of Nadia Leger are sent to Moscow

Six mosaic portraits drawn by Nadya Leger will temporarily leave the science city of Dubna for demonstration in the Moscow Manege, according to the website of the Dubna City Administration. A huge inter-museum exposition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the USSR will be demonstrated in the central exhibition hall.

Many citizens of Dubna know that the author of the mosaics having been lived in France, half a century ago, presented the Soviet Union 60 of her art works depicting astronauts, writers, musicians and politicians. Some of them were sent to Dubna and installed next to the Cultural Centres "Mir" and "Oktyabr".

The exhibition "House of Culture of the USSR" will open on 2 February, until April. For this period, the mosaics will be replaced by banners with similar images. We have reached an agreement on the organization of exchange exhibitions of the Moscow museums in our city with the State Museum and Exhibition Centre "ROSIZO".

From the book by L.N.Orelovich "The French trace of the mosaic of Nadia Leger in Dubna":

When the mosaics by Nadia Leger arrived in 1974, they were all placed in the park near the Cultural Centre of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. One can see the order in which they stood then in the article "I have the main thing - paints" (newspaper "For Communism", No.6 of 28 February, 1975).

From the words of the chief architect of the city Ernest Yurievich Sosin, it became clear that the mosaics in Dubna underwent two serious restorations: the first one took place in 1986, on the 30th anniversary of the city, the second one - in 1996, on the 40th anniversary of Dubna. Lacking funds for the restoration at that time, JINR passed the mosaics to the Dubna City Mayor's Office that agreed to bear these expenses. Artists from Dmitrov carried out a cosmetic restoration and by the anniversary of the city, the revived mosaics were again put on display, but not in the original quantity...

It was after this that some mosaic panels again changed their location. As a result, it was decided to transfer the portraits of astronauts (except the portrait of V.I.Patsaev that has not been preserved) to the left-bank part of Dubna, to Cosmonauts' Square near the Cultural Centre "Oktyabr". There they are still standing.