The Temirtau city Museum opened an exhibition of paintings from the museum's collection, "Workdays in Colors" on August 1, 2025. It is timed to coincide with the Year of Working Professions in Kazakhstan.
The exhibition included 30 works of art that vividly highlight the thematic semantics of the exhibition.
Temirtau is a city of metallurgists, so most of the paintings presented are dedicated to workers in the metallurgical industry. They capture historical moments - from the construction of the Kazakhstan Magnitka to the industrial views of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant.
In 1974, the All-Union Group of Watercolorists worked in Temirtau, who, turning to the theme of labor, created remarkable works. They were acquired by the museum and entered the art fund. Today they are exhibited at the exhibition. Among the authors are famous artists Tatyana Burakova (Moscow), Yuri Efremov (Moscow), Shukov Alexander (Krasnoyarsk), Vladimir Antonov (Orenburg).
At different periods, famous artists of Karaganda and the region came to Temirtau to paint - members of the Union of Artists Sarkis Sanosyan, and Pavel Andreyuk, as well as Gennady Kirsanov, Alexander Sizintsev. In their paintings, the artists, like documentarians, captured numerous objects of the Kazakhstan Magnitka, the daily work of metallurgists.
Temirtau artists also repeatedly addressed the theme of labor. The famous chronicler of the city, Mikhail Podlesnykh, created a series of picturesque industrial landscapes. And the large-scale canvas of Andrei Osipenko became the center of the presented exposition. It is dedicated to the builders of the first blast furnace.
One of the interesting aspects of the exhibition is that here you can see not only paintings and watercolors, but also graphic paintings using different techniques - etching, lithography.
