Stenograffia is an international graffiti festival held annually in Yekaterinburg the first weekend in July. [1] [2] In the summer of 2010 graffiti on the theme "Europe and Asia: the clash of opposites" appeared in the subways, on quay slabs, yards, and on buildings in the Ural capital. The theme of Stenograffia 2011 was "Images of Happiness". In July 2012 artists from around the world presented their vision of Yekaterinburg using the theme "Global Intelligence". [3]
The first festival gathered artists from 25 cities and three countries. It included artists from Omsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Ufa, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Chelyabinsk, Tomsk, Nizhny Tagil, Perm, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Nizhny and Novgorod, and from (Spain and Germany. The gathering occasioned a large-scale painting of urban surfaces.
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Nizhny Novgorod is the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in Russia. The city is located at the confluence of the Oka and the Volga rivers in Central Russia, with a population of over 1.2 million residents, up to roughly 1.7 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Nizhny Novgorod is the sixth-largest city in Russia, the second-most populous city on the Volga, as well as the Volga Federal District. It is an important economic, transportation, scientific, educational and cultural centre in Russia and the vast Volga-Vyatka economic region, and the main centre of river tourism in Russia. In the historic part of the city there are many universities, theatres, museums and churches.
Yekaterinburg is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural Federal District, and one of Russia's main cultural and industrial centres. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the "Third capital of Russia", as it is ranked third by the size of its economy, culture, transportation and tourism.
Perm, previously known as Yagoshikha and Molotov, is the administrative centre of Perm Krai in the European part of Russia. It sits on the banks of the Kama River near the Ural Mountains, covering an area of 799.68 square kilometres. With over one million residents Perm is the 15th-largest city in Russia and the 5th-largest in the Volga Federal District.
Nizhny Tagil is a city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located 25 kilometers (16 mi) east of the boundary between Asia and Europe. Population: 338,966 (2021 Census); 361,811 (2010 Census); 390,498 (2002 Census); 439,521 (1989 Soviet census).
Street art is visual art created in public locations for public visibility. It has been associated with the terms "independent art", "post-graffiti", "neo-graffiti" and guerrilla art.
Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov was a Russian landscape and seascape painter.
Melbourne, the capital of Victoria and the second largest city in Australia, has gained international acclaim for its diverse range of street art and associated subcultures. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, much of the city's disaffected youth were influenced by the graffiti of New York City, which subsequently became popular in Melbourne's inner suburbs, and along suburban railway and tram lines.
Graffiti in Iran consists of different styles. Some are slogans painted by governmental organizations, and some are works of art by regular citizens. During the last few years, Tehran Municipality has been drawing graffiti in order to beautify the city. Much governmental graffiti regards the Iranian Revolution, Islamic Republic of Iran policies and The Politics of Resistance. Pro-democracy activists are also continuing a political graffiti campaign in Tehran. Islamic graffiti can also be seen around the city. Graffiti has long served as a medium of expression through Iran's complicated political history.
In Russia, graffiti is an ambiguous phenomenon, i.e. considered to be desecration by some, and art by others. It is done for a variety of reasons, including expressing oneself through an art form, or protesting against a corporation or ideology.
Tatiana Vasilyevna Badanina is a Russian visual artist.
Aleksey Alekseyevich Gerasimov is a Russian football player who plays as a centre-back for Uralets-TS Nizhny Tagil on loan from Ural Yekaterinburg.
Boris Vasilevich Kondrashin was a Russian and Soviet painter of socialist realism, member of the Union of artists since 1960, member of Union, republican and regional exhibitions.
Leo Zurabovich Goglichidze is a Russian football player of Georgian origin who plays as a left back for Ural Yekaterinburg.
Pavel Aleksandrovich Otdelnov is an artist working in painting, drawing, video, installations, and exploring such subjects as urban space, environment, Soviet history, and historical memory.
Chingiz Turpal-Eliyevich Magomadov is a Russian football player who plays as a right-back for FC Veles Moscow.
Makaronka is an art center located in the Russian port city of Rostov-on-Don. It brings together an experimental theater, an exhibition area, and the studios of various artists. Makaronka opened its doors as an art center on January 31, 2013 under the guidance of the 16th LINE art gallery.
The 2019–20 Ural season was the club's seventh successive season that the club played in the Russian Premier League, the highest tier of association football in Russia.
Timur Igramutdinovich Suleymanov is a Russian football player who plays as a centre-forward for Lokomotiv Moscow.
Boris Yeltsin Street is a street in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Maria Igorevna Safronova is a Russian artist. She is a participant of Moscow, Russian and foreign exhibitions and the member of the Moscow Union of Artists. She is included in the Top 100 recognized artists of Russia according to «InArt». In 2017, 2018, she entered the Russian Investment Art Rating 49ART, which represents outstanding contemporary artists under the age of 50. In 2015, she became the laureate of Sergey Kuryokhin Award in the nomination «The best Work of Visual Art».
