Mikhail Anikushin

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The monument to Pushkin on Square of Art in Saint Petersburg
The monument to Pushkin on Square of Art in Saint Petersburg

Mikhail Konstantinovitch Anikushin (Russian: Михаил Константинович Аникушин; (19 September 1917, Moscow — 18 May 1997, Saint Petersburg) a famous Soviet Russian sculptor. Among his most famous works are a monument to Alexander Pushkin at Pushkinskaya Station of the Saint Petersburg Metro (1954), a monument to Alexander Pushkin at Arts Square in Saint Petersburg (1957), a monument to Vladimir Lenin at Moskovskaya Square in Saint Petersburg.

A minor planet 3358 Anikushin discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1978 is named after him. [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Dictionary of Minor Planet Names - p.280
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