Kondostroy

Mediums: oil, canvas.
Location: The Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia (Petrozavodsk, Russia).

To work on this painting, the artist went to Karelia, where one of the most ambitious constructions of those years took place – the construction of the Kondopoga hydroelectric station. Peter Bruegel’s famous painting “Hunters in the Snow” inspired the plot and composition of the work; however, instead of hunters, the artist depicted a group of workers on a hill above the construction site. The urban landscape demonstrates human domination over nature and the scale of the enterprise, which turns the river into a powerful source of energy. Working on the painting, Tsybasov created two of its large-scale versions and a series of graphic works. All of them were presented in Petrozavodsk at the exhibition “Karelia in the Fine Arts” in 1934.