Street Art and the Urban Environment: How Regions Paint, Eradicate, and Protect Street Art
Artists paint the walls of residential areas and hospitals, residents assemble murals from plastic bottle caps, and utility services sometimes paint over graffiti overnight. This collection features materials from "NotMoscow Speaks" about street and public art in Russia's regions: from festivals in Murmansk and Yekaterinburg to folk murals and works that authorities have decided to erase.
2026
Nizhny Novgorod artists create street collage postcards
Nizhny Novgorod artists Yulianna Kulugur and Dmitry Koldarev are placing collage postcards featuring city landmarks on the streets.
2026
The public art festival "Rost" is taking place in Murmansk.
The public art festival "Rost" transforms the drab residential areas and industrial zones of Murmansk with murals, mosaics, and tiles.
2026
Street art erased in Yekaterinburg. No longer a city of demons.
Yekaterinburg's municipal services painted over Sergei Akramov's graffiti, "Yekaterinburg is no longer a city of demons," on the embankment.
2025
An art object about the capital and its regions has appeared in Novosibirsk.
An installation on the side of a house in Novosibirsk: a rusty bathtub with the drain labeled "Moscow" and the bottom a map of Russia.
2025
Murals from Plastic Bottle Caps: Fantastic Panels from Not Moscow (Kegostrov)
Residents of Kego Island in the Arkhangelsk region have assembled panels made from plastic bottle caps onto the walls of their garages and houses.
2025
Public art "Views": A Swiss artist creates a mural on a tree in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
In Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Swiss artist Antoine Guignard is creating a wooden mural as part of the regional public art program "Views."
2025
Independent artists painted the walls of a cardiology center in Khabarovsk.
Independent artists from Khabarovsk painted murals on the walls of the Federal Vascular Center: first at the checkpoint, then inside.
2024
Russia has chosen… the best city entrance steles. Even governors urged people to vote for "their own."
Regions competed for the title of the city's best entrance stele: even governors called on people to vote for "their own."
2024
How Street Art Became Ufa's Calling Card: The Story of Artem Sharafutdinov
Since 2019, art patron Artem Sharafutdinov has been creating street art projects in Ufa that have become the city's calling card.
2023
"Filling Places with Meaning": On Street Art in Krasnoyarsk
The curator of the Kras festival explains how street art has been rapidly developing in Krasnoyarsk since the mid-90s.
2023
"A City with Abnormally Creative Activity": On Street Art in Yekaterinburg
How street art in Yekaterinburg developed since the first international festival, STENOGRAFFIA, in 2010.
2023
There's no street art in Ryazan... But we found it!
Ryazan artist Alexander Demkin believes street art is underdeveloped in the city, and shows where it does exist.