In this part we offer the sketches of decoration of neoclassical ethnic pavilion. Photographs of the Kirghiz SSR’s not extant pavilion in Moscow, its architectural décor and also ornamental motives of Kyrgyz decorative applied art became the basis for the project.

  The Kirghiz SSR’s pavilion was built in 1939 in Moscow in the territory of Exhibition of achievements of national economy (architect A.S. Plotnikov). The pavilion was an original architectural monument, which united traditions of antique, Ancient Eastern and Central Asian architecture. Its monumental portal was crowned with the Kirgiz SSR’s insignia, decorated with smalt of gold and silver colours. The gallery of wooden carved columns sided with the portal from the left; five decorative panel pictures in the form of tush kiiz (wall carpets) were on the gallery’s inside wall, and miniature fountains were located near them.

  The portal’s massive doors, made of red wood and bronze, were in harmony with the wall, decorated with carving on ganch. The productions of stock-breeding, sheep-breeding and the other branches of the republic’s agriculture were shown on colourful stands in the pavilion’s interior, which was fulfilled in the style of Central Asian decorative art.

  In 1954 architect А. М. Аlbansky (author of such projects in Bishkek as Pavilion of mineral waters, 1952 and Russian dramatic theatre, 1972) took part in the pavilion’s reconstruction. In 1965 the building was pulled down.

The Kirghiz SSR’s pavilion in Moscow, 1939. General view

Main façade of the Kirghiz SSR’s pavilion. Fragment

The Kirghiz SSR’s pavilion, 1939. Interior

Table 1. Ornamental motives of ethnic pavilion
1-2 – rosettes with the motif “karga tyrmak” (claws of a raven) and flower buds; 3,7 –whirlwind rosettes; 4 –the motif “anar”(pomegranate); 5 – rosette with a flower; 6,8 – octagons with horn-shaped pattern and palmettes; 9 – geometrical and flower motives; 10 – wave with curls; 11, 12, 14 – horn-shaped patterns; 13 – geometrical patterns.

Table 2. Sketches of the ethnic pavilion’s decoration (on the basis of the Kirghiz SSR’s pavilion, 1939)
1 – fragment of the portal’s frieze and cornice; 2 - the gallery’s frieze and cornice; 3 – fragment of right side façade (portal); 4 – fragment of left side façade (gallery); 5 – main entrance of the building; 6 –a decorative panel picture of the gallery.