Sadri Salakhovich Akhun (, ; 16 March 1930 — 21 June 1990) was a Soviet sculptor, often considered to be considered the founder of sculpture of
Tatarstan
Tatarstan, officially the Republic of Tatarstan, sometimes also called Tataria, is a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is a part of the Volga Federal District; and its capital city, capital and largest city i ...
. He received many honors including the honorary titles Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and Honored Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
Biography
Akhun was born in 1903 to a Volga Tatar family in the Russian Empire.
He attended the Sverdlovsk Art and Industry Institute
and attended the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts in Leningrad from 1927 until he graduated in 1931.
He became a member of the
Artists' Union of the USSR
The Artists' Union of the USSR () was a creative union of the Soviet artists and art critics embracing the Republics of the Soviet Union.
The Union was founded started in 1932 to supersede the AKhRR. The integral Union was instituted in 1957. B ...
in 1936.
From 1940 to 1950 he was the chairman of the Union of Artists of the Tatar ASSR.
His works were displayed at many exhibitions not only in the Tatar ASSR but throughout the Soviet Union.
His artworks include the decorative fountain "Labor will be the ruler of the world" in Kazan,
a monument to the famous Tatar poet
Ğabdulla Tuqay
Ğabdulla Möxəmmətğərif ulı Tuqay () was a Volga Tatars, Volga Tatar poet, critic, publisher, and towering figure of Tatar literature. Tuqay is often referred to as the founder of modern Tatar literature and the modern Tatar literary lang ...
that he worked on with
Lev Kerbel
Lev Yefimovich Kerbel (; – 14 August 2003) was a Soviet and Russian sculptor of socialist realist works. Kerbel's creations included statues of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Yuri Gagarin, which were sent by Soviet Government as gifts to soci ...
, a portrait-bust of
Musa Jalil
Musa may refer to:
Places
*Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia
* Musa, Azerbaijan, a village in Yardymli Rayon
*Musa, Iran, a village in Ilam province, Iran
*Musa, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran
* Musa Kalayeh, Gilan province, Iran
*Abu Musa ...
in 1957,
and a sculpture of flying ace
Amet-khan Sultan
Amet-khan Sultan ( Crimean Tatar: Amet-Han Sultan, Амет-Хан Султан, احمدخان سلطان; Ukrainian/Russian: Амет-Хан Султан; 20 October 1920 – 1 February 1971) was a highly decorated Crimean Tatar flying ace in ...
that was installed on his grave in
Novodevichy Cemetery
Novodevichy Cemetery () is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site.
History
The cemetery was designed by Ivan Mashkov and inaugurated ...
in 1947.
He died in 1987,
or according to other sources, 1990.
Footnotes
References
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1903 births
1990 deaths
Soviet sculptors