Exhibition dedicated to USSR art hosted in Kyrgyzstan

Poster of the exhibition (Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts

Bishkek: The Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts will host an exhibition devoted to the Soviet fine arts of the 1930-1990s

The exhibition, “In peace and harmony. The art of the USSR”, will be held on August 28-September 29, the press service of the museum named after named after Gapar Aitiyev, the first national artist of Kyrgyzstan, said.

Works by artists from Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia), Russia, Ukraine and the Central Asian republics (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) will be featured, national news agency Kabar reported.

The exhibition is a tribute to older generations, their heritage and covenants.

“We hope that today this exhibition will sound in a special way as a tribute to memory and as a holiday of art, culture and Independence Day,” the statement said.

Kyrgyzstan celebrates its Independence Day as a Republic on August 31. On that day, in 1991, an extraordinary session of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan adopted a resolution on the “Declaration on the State Independence of the Kyrgyz Republic”. According to this historic act, the Kyrgyz Republic was declared an independent, sovereign and democratic state.