Alexander Demkin has completed a new mural on the administrative building of Ryazan’s First Power Station Creative Cluster, at 18 Sobornaya Square. The work centres on the silhouette of a young woman, developed around the themes of electricity, light and energy—an apt visual direction for a site named after the city’s first power station.
The mural was completed in late May, following the start of work on May 20. Early images from the wall showed a network of preliminary marks and outlines; the finished composition now presents the female figure as its central image. Demkin has said that the character will soon be given a name.
The piece has been installed on a building along Ryazan’s Great Pedestrian Route, placing it within a central walking corridor rather than an isolated industrial edge. It also adds a new painted façade to a project that is gradually converting the former power-station site into a creative hub. The first phase of the youth-focused cluster opened in January 2026, while the wider site continues to be developed.
For Demkin, the commission extends an ongoing working relationship with the Center for Creative Industries Development in Ryazan. In 2024, he led a group of artists from Ryazan, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Makhachkala on the city’s Art Quarter project, which brought eight murals to residential buildings on Lesoparkovaya and Rybatskaya Streets, as well as Proezd Rechniki. The works drew on local references including regional crafts, familiar places and images associated with Ryazan and the surrounding region.
That project was conceived at a neighbourhood scale: several façades were treated as part of one distributed public-art programme, rather than as standalone commissions. The new work at First Power Station is more concentrated, using a single figure and a tightly defined brief connected to energy and light.
Demkin is a Ryazan-based monumental artist and graphic artist, and a member of the regional branch of the Union of Artists of Russia since 2021. His public works have become a regular feature of the city’s recent mural activity. Among them are a 2017 work titled “Mir,” created on a residential building in support of the World Festival of Youth and Students, and later murals depicting subjects including physiologist Ivan Pavlov, a nurse, poet Sergei Yesenin and figures in action sports.
His 2024 mural “Souvenir,” also known by the artist as “Nevod,” translated motifs from Skopin ceramics onto the façade of Ryazan’s Kvadrum business centre. Elsewhere in the city, Demkin has used sprayed paint to create a blurred, underwater effect for a mural at Children’s Art School No. 5, and painted a skatepark scene on Lybedskiy Boulevard under the title “Fragility.”
The First Power Station mural takes a more pared-back route. There is no announced title yet, but its young female silhouette now gives the evolving cluster a distinctly public face on Sobornaya Square.
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