Yeltsin Center Exhibition
The August '91. People in the Square

Client: Yeltsin Center

Location:
Russia, Yekaterinburg, Borisa Yeltsina str., 3a

Site:
Yeltsin Center Art Gallery
Total area: 2000 m2

Architecture:
Ashot Karapetian, Petr Lyubavin

About the exhibition:
The August '91. People in the square exhibition was organized to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the August coup. It is the largest exhibition on the subject in Russia outside of Moscow.
Read more about the exhibition here.










The source of inspiration for the exhibits' formation were numerous accidental shapes of barricades that were haphazardly put up in August of 1991.

Metal grating, screens, concrete blocks were all used as impromptu defense constructions.


3D-tour:
(https://yeltsin.ru/panoramas)