Silver 2-ruble coin commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Yevgeny Vuchetich

Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (

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: Евгений Викторович Вучетич; –12 April 1974) was a

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sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

and

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. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style, including ''

The Motherland Calls ''The Motherland Calls'' () is a colossal neoclassicism, neoclassicist and socialist realism, socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. Designed primarily by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich with assistance fro ...

'', the largest sculpture in the world at the time.

Biography

Vuchetich was born in

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(now

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), the son of Viktor Vuchetich (Vučetić), a Montenegrin immigrant from the clan of Grbalj, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, of

and of

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descent.Иван Шевцов
Соколы.
Русское Воскресение. He was a prominent representative of the Socialist Realism style and was awarded with the

Lenin Prize The Lenin Prize (, ) was one of the most prestigious awards of the Soviet Union for accomplishments relating to science, literature, arts, architecture, and technology. It was originally created on June 23, 1925, and awarded until 1934. During ...

in 1970, the Stalin Prize (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950),

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (, ) was an award named after Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the October Revolution. It was established by the Central Executive Committee on 6 April 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration bestowed by the Soviet ...

(twice),

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(2nd degree),

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(1967) and

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(1959).

Family

One of his step-granddaughters is Israeli politician

Ksenia Svetlova Ksenia Svetlova (, ; born 28 July 1977) is an Israeli politician, journalist, associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and policy fellow at the Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies. She served as a member of the Knes ...

Works

* Soviet War Memorial in

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(1946–1949), overseen by a 13m tall monument of a Soviet soldier holding a German child, with a sword, over a broken

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. This war memorial design was later used on

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and

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commemorating the end of fascist rule in 1945. *

Nikolai Vatutin monument The ''Nikolai Vatutin monument'' was a sculpture monument to Soviet military commander Nikolai Vatutin, erected in 1948 and located in Mariinskyi Park, Kyiv, Ukraine, that was dismantled on 9 February 2023.

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(1948). This monument was dismantled on 9 February 2023.Mariinsky Park without Vatutin. The monument to the Soviet general was finally demolished

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(9 February 2023) *''

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'' in the

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garden (1957)Swords Into Plowshares, United Nations Cyber School Bus, United Nations, UN.org, 2001
retrieved on: August 4, 2007 *''Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares'' in front of the plant "Gazoapparat" in

Volgograd Volgograd,. formerly Tsaritsyn. (1589–1925) and Stalingrad. (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of , with a population ...

. * A sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1958), colloquially known as "Iron Felix", used to be in

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at the

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. *''

!'' at

Mamayev Kurgan Mamayev Kurgan () is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in Southern Russia. The name in Russian means "tumulus of Mamai". The formation is dominated by a memorial complex commemorating the Battle of Stali ...

(1963–1967) File:Mamaev_kurgan_(%D0%9E%D0%9A%D0%9D).JPG, ''The Motherland Calls'' File:Schwerter zu Pflugscharen - Jewgeni Wutschetitsch - Geschenk der Sowjetunion an die UNO - 1959.jpg, ''Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares'' File:TreptowEhrenmal10.JPG, Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park File:Пам'ятник генералу армії М. Ф. Ватутіну Київ Грушевського Михайла вул., Маріїнський парк.JPG, Vatutin monument in Kyiv as photographed in 2015

Awards

Hero of Socialist Labour The Hero of Socialist Labour () was an Title of honor, honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It represented the highest degree of distinction in the USSR and was awarded for exceptional achievem ...

(10 October 1967) * Peoples Artist of the RSFSR (1951) * Honored worker of art of the Kazakh SSR (1957) * Peoples Artist of the USSR * Stalin prize 2nd class (1946) * Stalin prize 1st class (1947) * Stalin prize 2nd class (1948) * Stalin prize 2nd class (1949) * Stalin prize 1st class (1950) * Two Order of Lenin (19 September 1952 and 15 October 1967)

References

1908 births 1974 deaths Heroes of Socialist Labour Recipients of the Lenin Prize People's Artists of the USSR (visual arts) Russian people of Serbian descent Russian male sculptors Socialist realist artists Soviet sculptors Soviet people of Serbian descent Recipients of the Stalin Prize Ukrainian people of Russian descent Ukrainian people of Serbian descent Ukrainian people of French descent Ukrainian male sculptors {{Russia-sculptor-stub Russian people of French descent Soviet people of French descent

Biography

Family

Works

Awards

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