Yevgeny Vuchetich

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Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (December 28 (December 15 (O.S.)), 1908— 1974) (Russian: Евгений Викторович Вучетич) was a prominent sculptor and artist of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor (1967), People's Artist of the USSR (1959), known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style.

Vuchetich was of Montenegrin descent, born in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine).

He was a prominent representative of the Socialist Realism style and was awarded with the Lenin Prize (1970) and Stalin Prize (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950), Order of Lenin (twice), Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree.

[edit] Works

• Mother Motherland Calls! at Mamayev Kurgan (1963-67)
• Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the United Nations garden (1957)
• A sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1958), colloquially known as "Iron Felix", used to be in Moscow at the Lubyanka Square
• Soviet War Memorial (Sowjetische Ehrenmal) in Treptower Park, Berlin (1946-1949), overseen by a 13m tall monument of a Russian soldier holding a child, with a sword, over a broken swastika.