Mikhail Burya
Mosaicist · born 1924 · Михаил Афанасьевич Буря
12 works · Bender, Chișinău, Rybnitsa
Mikhail Burya was born in 1924 in Lozova, in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, and became one of the most productive mosaicists in the Moldavian SSR. Russian-language surveys of the republic's mosaics name him first among its leading artists, and he was made an Honored Art Worker of the MSSR.
Much of his work was done with Vladislav Obukh, often on buildings by the architect Valentin Mednek, beginning with the Tkachenko House of Culture in Bender in 1963. His mosaics are spread across Transnistria and the Orhei and Glodeni districts. Works known from sources but not yet documented here include Art (Искусство, "Iskusstvo"), a smalt panel made in 1971 for the Palace of Trade Unions in Chișinău, which is being moved to the Opera.
