Bus Stop “Fragment of a Dolphin”
Location: Gagra, Abkhazia
Completed: 1967
Designers: George Chakhava (architect), Zurab Kapanadze, Zurab Lezhava and Nodar Malazonia (artists)
Genre: Modernist, Soviet architecture, former USSR
“Fragment of a Dolphin” is one of a series of nine flamboyant bus shelters constructed along this stretch of the Black Sea Riviera in the 1960s and ‘70s. More information about Abkhazia’s bus stops.
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