{"id":50108,"date":"2026-11-02T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/?p=50108"},"modified":"2026-11-01T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T21:13:08","slug":"mosaics-2-a-fragmented-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/photo-of-the-day\/mosaics-2-a-fragmented-image\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaics &#8211; 2 &#8211; A fragmented image"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karaganda is a city built from scratch from 1934 onwards, under the direction of architect and urban planner Alexander Ivanovich Kuznetsov. Like many Soviet cities shaped by large-scale construction projects, its fa\u00e7ades of public and state buildings are adorned with Soviet mosaics. Today, these mosaics have become part of the Central Asian urban palimpsest: old towns, monumental construction projects, new neighbourhoods, Brezhnev-era apartment blocks, presidential ambitions&#8230; As material embodiments of the Soviet legacy in public space, the presence of Soviet mosaics raises questions and can even <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/m-le-mag\/article\/2025\/08\/17\/soviet-era-relics-in-kazakhstan-rescued-from-ruin_6744459_117.html\">provoke unease<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Photo Credits : Mathilde Ramkissoon<\/strong> (France, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sovietblocs\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sovietblocs\/\">@sovietblocs<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><p>Find <a style=\"color: #f57d20; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/tag\/photo-of-the-day\/\">all of our photos of the day<\/a>. You can buy some of these and receive them at home: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/novastan\/you-can-buy-novastans-pictures-of-the-day\/\">here is the list<\/a><\/span>! If you can't find your picture in the list, mail us to <a href=\"mailto:photo@novastan.org\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">photo@novastan.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karaganda is a city built from scratch from 1934 onwards, under the direction of architect and urban planner Alexander Ivanovich Kuznetsov. Like many Soviet cities shaped by large-scale construction projects, its fa\u00e7ades of public and state buildings are adorned with Soviet mosaics. Today, these mosaics have become part of the Central Asian urban palimpsest: old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":984,"featured_media":50111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[513,470,4002,4593],"coauthors":[3992],"class_list":["post-50108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day","tag-culture","tag-kazakhstan","tag-photo-of-the-day","tag-urbanism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50112,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50108\/revisions\/50112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50108"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novastan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}