A sculpture of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has been unveiled in a passageway at the Taganskaya Metro Station in Moscow, architecture researcher Alexander Zinoviev reported on Thursday.
On May 10, the Moscow Metro announced plans to restore a historical panel at Taganskaya dedicated to the Soviet victory in World War II. The bas-relief originally stood at the end of the station on the metro’s Circle Line until 1966, when it was lost during construction of a new transfer. Metro officials said the composition would be recreated using archival photos and documents, “faithfully replicating the original.”
However, according to Zinoviev, the restored version does not reproduce the original material or color of the panel, and the decorative border details were not closely recreated either. “Overall, it’s more of an ideological gesture than a real effort to restore the station’s historical appearance,” he said.
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