Аннотация:Abstract. The article examines the post-industrial landscape of urban outskirts(“non-site”) and the art focusing on it as a single space of semiosis. Analysis of thelocal history of the unusual reception of the exhibition “Russian Nowhere” (2021) bycontemporary artist Pavel Otdelnov as a microsemiotic system enabled the author toexplicate a number of universal patterns of the existence of the semiosphere of themodern Russian culture.Keywords: cultural landscape; art; Pavel Otdelnov, Semiosis; cultural code;post-Soviet industrial architecture; non-site.