title: Religious semantics in monumental works by Kuban artists of the late Soviet period
abstract: The article is devoted to the semiotic peculiarities of the use of religious imagery in the works of Soviet monumental art. From the position of semiotics of culture the following problems are studied: the correlation of secular and religious components in monumental art; the use of symbolic potential of religious images by Soviet artists; the use of semiotic scenarios of reference to religious images in the works of Kuban artists of the 1970s ‒ 1980s. The author substantiates that the artistic 
journal: Vizualʹnaâ teologiâ.