In every city, there are its own unique places and structures which are considered as its landmarks and signature destinations. The snow-white rotunda in the Komsomolskaya Street is the symbol of Novomoskovsk. Quiet and homelike Novomoskovsk is located in the Tula Region, a few kilometers from Uzlovaya. The boulevard crowned with the rotunda is the favorite walking area of the city population. It was not by chance that painter Boris Merkulov chose the autumn landscape near the rotunda for his painting Novomoskovsk in the Autumn. This picturesque corner is beautiful in any season, but, in the autumn, it looks especially fascinating.
The painting represents an early autumn. The boulevard in the Komsomolskaya Street is washed with the first September rain, still warm and light. The trees framing the boulevard bed do not hurry to change the emerald attire for gold and vermillion, but one cannot cheat the nature — yellowed crowns already start to thin and the grass lawn is covered with a rich blanket of fallen leaves.
The history of the Novomoskovsk rotunda dates back to the after-war year of 1947. At that time, the USSR was recovering from ruins, Novomoskovsk was still Stalinogorsk, and Komsomolskaya Street was the eastern garden. To revive the industry, the country needed coal. Miners who worked in three shifts were encouraged and awarded in all ways. In 1947, a rally of Stakhanovites was held in Stalinogorsk.
The round architectural structure with columns and a balustrade was built as a roll of honor and a place for awarding the participants. Its erection was initiated by coal trust chief engineer Seraphim Ushkanov. The rally participants received their awards and left, and the garden with the elegant snow-white structure became the city inhabitants’ favorite place of leisure.
Boris K. Merkulov was born on November 27, 1939, in the Khrenovoye village of the Voronezh Region Rozhdestvensko-Khavsky District. In the city of Uzlovaya, Boris Merkulov has been living since the mid 60s. Merkulov is aself-educated artist. He has not studied painting professionally, but, in terms of artistry, his canvases are equal to famous artists’ works.
Boris K. Merkulov worked as an interior designer in the ‘Plastic’ Factory art studio, then at the ‘Uzlovskugol’ Workers’ Supply Department. At the turn of centuries, he joined as an artist the Uzlovsky Museum of Fine Arts and Local History where he worked until the end of 2018. Since 1970, Merkulov has regularly participated in city and regional exhibitions. Boris Merkulov’s artistic talent showed itself not only in landscape painting, he also creates wonderful portraits and still lifes. He has achieved a high level of skill in graphic art, metalsmithing, wood carving, and sculpture.
Being a full-time artist of the Uzlovsky Museum of Local History, Boris Merkulov created and gave to his organization beautiful canvases poeticizing the Tula Region, featuring urban landscapes and famous people of the region. The museum collections were supplemented with the master’s sculptures and carved wood articles. In 2014, for Boris K. Merkulov’s 75th anniversary, the Uzlovsky Museum successfully held the artist’s personal exhibition.
The painting represents an early autumn. The boulevard in the Komsomolskaya Street is washed with the first September rain, still warm and light. The trees framing the boulevard bed do not hurry to change the emerald attire for gold and vermillion, but one cannot cheat the nature — yellowed crowns already start to thin and the grass lawn is covered with a rich blanket of fallen leaves.
The history of the Novomoskovsk rotunda dates back to the after-war year of 1947. At that time, the USSR was recovering from ruins, Novomoskovsk was still Stalinogorsk, and Komsomolskaya Street was the eastern garden. To revive the industry, the country needed coal. Miners who worked in three shifts were encouraged and awarded in all ways. In 1947, a rally of Stakhanovites was held in Stalinogorsk.
The round architectural structure with columns and a balustrade was built as a roll of honor and a place for awarding the participants. Its erection was initiated by coal trust chief engineer Seraphim Ushkanov. The rally participants received their awards and left, and the garden with the elegant snow-white structure became the city inhabitants’ favorite place of leisure.
Boris K. Merkulov was born on November 27, 1939, in the Khrenovoye village of the Voronezh Region Rozhdestvensko-Khavsky District. In the city of Uzlovaya, Boris Merkulov has been living since the mid 60s. Merkulov is aself-educated artist. He has not studied painting professionally, but, in terms of artistry, his canvases are equal to famous artists’ works.
Boris K. Merkulov worked as an interior designer in the ‘Plastic’ Factory art studio, then at the ‘Uzlovskugol’ Workers’ Supply Department. At the turn of centuries, he joined as an artist the Uzlovsky Museum of Fine Arts and Local History where he worked until the end of 2018. Since 1970, Merkulov has regularly participated in city and regional exhibitions. Boris Merkulov’s artistic talent showed itself not only in landscape painting, he also creates wonderful portraits and still lifes. He has achieved a high level of skill in graphic art, metalsmithing, wood carving, and sculpture.
Being a full-time artist of the Uzlovsky Museum of Local History, Boris Merkulov created and gave to his organization beautiful canvases poeticizing the Tula Region, featuring urban landscapes and famous people of the region. The museum collections were supplemented with the master’s sculptures and carved wood articles. In 2014, for Boris K. Merkulov’s 75th anniversary, the Uzlovsky Museum successfully held the artist’s personal exhibition.
