Mother Motherland
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Mother Motherland (Russian: Родина-мать, Rodina-mat’) is the name of several huge statues in various cities of the former Soviet Union. All of them commemorate the Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War II).
- "Rodina Mat' Zovyot!", (Mother Motherland Is Calling) a monumental statue by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad and dedicated in 1967. The significant structural engineering challenges of the 52 meter (170 feet) tall, 7900 ton sculpture were handled by Nikolai Nikitin. Measured from the tip of her sword to the top of the plinth, the distance is 85 meters (279 feet). It is located on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia at .
- Kiev's statue of the Motherland [1] , also a memorial of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) in Kiev, Ukraine. The statue itself is 62 meters tall, the overall height is 102 meters.
- The gigantic statue at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery of Saint Petersburg, opened in 1960 to commemorate the victims of the Siege of Leningrad.
- A monument "Mother Russia" in Kaliningrad (1974) is often erroneously referred to as "Rodina-Mat".
