Images of the First Line of the Leningrad Metro in the Products of Art-Industry Enterprises: on the Occasion of the 70th Anniversary

The Leningrad Metro, one of the city’s most important symbols, was an integral part of the “chamber propaganda plan”: images of its pavilions and stations appeared in numerous works of art and crafts, incorporated into the everyday space of virtually every Soviet apartment in the 1950s and 1960s. The artistic and plastic design of these mass-produced items coincided with the stylistic coordinates of the station images, which transformed from the “Triumph” style of the fi rst (red) line to the contemporary style of
the second (blue) line. Using objects created at the Leningrad Enamel Factory, a leading Leningrad manufacturer of consumer goods, this article identifies the expressive and semantic features of the representation of images of the fi rst line of the Leningrad Metro in works of art and crafts.

art industry, Leningrad Metro, decorative minimalism, “Triumph” style, “Leningrad Enamel”