Mosaic Bus Stop, Aknada

Out here in Dagestan, the bus stop feels like a tiny civic artwork dropped into the steppe. The surviving Soviet roadside shelters in the Caucasus and nearby regions often used mosaic and local craft traditions to give a simple waiting place a surprisingly vivid identity. This stop’s personality comes from that old Soviet trick: take a basic functional object, then let color, pattern, and local style do the rest. It reads almost like a miniature pavilionscape rather than a mere place to catch a bus.

Тинди, Dagestan, Russia