Heroes of our time

In honor of International Women's Day, the Moscow Urban Planning Complex held two photo exhibitions on the streets of the city dedicated to women builders.

From March 3 to 20, a photo exhibition was held on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, which introduced tower crane operators, architects, designers, surveyors, and engineers who work on the construction of large infrastructure facilities, including the Moscow metro.

Muscovites could see our colleagues in the photo: Nadezhda Romanova, tower crane operator of Tunnel Detachment-6, Natalya Korneva, mine hoisting operator of SMU-6, Tatyana Rodyukova, leading engineer of the production and economic department of SMU-8, Natalya Aparina, surveyor of SMU-8, Elena Fonkina, surveyor of SMU-6, Galina Koveshnikov, head of the Central Construction Laboratory of Mosmetrostroy. The photography took place at the Dostoevskaya metro station under construction on the Circle Line, where some of the heroines work.

A photo exhibition about women builders of the Soviet era took place in the Muzeon art park from March 1 to 31. There they presented historical footage from the Main Archive of Moscow and the Moscow Metrostroy, depicting the work of women builders in the 1950s–1970s. Among them are painters, crane operators, plasterers, designers, asphalt pavers and even masons. For example, an iconic photo of women architects who designed the Belorusskaya station of the Circle Line of the metro in 1952: Ya. V. Tatarzhinskaya, N. A. Bykova, A. A. Marova and Z. F. Abramova, a photograph of the driver of the electric locomotive of mine No. 507 SMU-8, dated 1958, etc.

The exhibitions aroused keen interest. Muscovites and city guests should know their heroes who are building the most beautiful metro in the world!