The Stone Flower Fountain
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The Stone Flower Fountain (Russian: Фонтан «Каменный цветок», romanized: Fontan Kamennyj tsvetok) stands in the so-called "Industrial Square" of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNH) in Moscow, Russia. It was named and designed after the eponymous flower from Pavel Bazhov's fairy-tale "The Stone Flower".
The Stone Flower Fountain was built in 1954. It was designed by the architect Konstantin Topuridze[1] The fountain was decorated with figures of birds, fruit and ears. Some sculpted details fountain created were carved by the sculptors Zoya Ryleyeva and V. V. Aleksandrova-Roslavleva, and the mosaics works were done in the workshop of the Soviet Academy of Arts. It was the first light and musical fountain in the USSR.[2] The music for it was created by Dmitri Shostakovich. It was positioned in front of the Ukrainian pavilion .[3]
and carved by Prokopy Dobrynin .See also
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- Friendship of the Peoples Fountain
References
[edit]- ^ "Журнал "АРХИТЕКТОР"". Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2015-12-09.
- ^ "На ВВЦ после трехлетнего перерыва заработает светомузыкальный фонтан …". Archived from the original on 17 September 2013.
- ^ Mărginean M. SHIFTING PERIMETERS TO DEFINE INFLEXIBLE MEANINGS: CONSUMPTION, SPECTACLE AND IDEOLOGICAL PROGRAMMING IN ROMANIAN ARCHITECTURE DURING THE 1950S //Interstudia (Revista Centrului Interdisciplinar de Studiu al Formelor Discursive Contemporane Interstud). – 2012. – №. 11/2. – С. 86-94.
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