Liisa Roberts

Petersburg Underground

High-relief #10: Sailors. A sailor (Anatoliy K. Popkov, b. 1930) and two navy divers, men

High-relief # 6: Metro Builders. Three tunnel diggers, men (Aleksandr V. Scheglov, b. 1929; Nikolay V. Ivanov, b. 1932)

High-relief # 2: Collective farmers. A dairymaid (Taisiya P. Zhunina, b. 1931) a henwife and a horsegroom

High-relief # 7: Textile workers. Two weavers, women (Vera D. Grigoryeva, b. 1936) and a reeler, a woman

High-relief # 8: Soviet soldiers. a. Three soldiers (Boris G. Kiryanov, b. 1920; Aleksandr N. Toptygin, b. 1923; Mikhail P. Zorin, b.1923) and a young girl b. Three soldiers, men (Mikhail P. Zorin, b. 1923; Aleksandr N. Toptygin, b. 1923) and a young girl (Marina N. Kopotko, b. 1951)

High-relief #11: Builders. A supervisor (Lev M. Kaplan, b. 1929) and two construction site workers (Tatyana M. Zakharova, b. 1931; Lev N. Smorgon, b. 1929)

High-relief # 1: Doctors. A mother with a child patient (Nadiya A. Shirinskaya, b. 1924 and Alisa A. Ivanova, b. 1954), a doctor (Nina P. Povarushkina, b. 1926), and a pediatric nurse (Nadezhda M. Smolina, b.1920)

High-relief # 3: Shipbuilders. Two welders, men (Mikhail V. Karpeev, b. 1928) and a draughtswoman (Galina M. Vorontsova, b. 1933)

High-relief # 4: Art Workers. An architect (Vladimir V. Popov, b. 1928), a sculptor (Grigoriy D. Yastrebenetskiy, b. 1923), and a painter (Elena M. Kostenko, b. 1926)

High-relief # 5: Foundry Workers. Three foundry workers, two men and a woman (Nina V. Smolina, b. 1929)

High-relief # 9: Students. Two elementary school students (Natalya P. Vereschagina, b. 1947; Larisa P. Perlova, b. 1945) a secondary school student (Liliya P. Teterina, b. 1936) and a teacher (Lyutsiya A. Bartashevich, b. 1931)

High-relief #12: Plant Breeders. Three plant breeders, two women and a man. At the time of the Leningrad Siege all of the plant breeders of the Vavilov Research Institute of Plant Industry starved to death guarding stocks of rice, wheat, corn, beans and potatoes for future generations. The few plant breeders working at the time that the Narvskaya metro station reliefs were sculpted, passed away not long before the time of these photographs taken at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Fine Arts.