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

Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (–12 April 1974) (russian: Евгений Викторович Вучетич; uk, Євген Вікторович Вучетич, ''Evhen Viktorovych Vuchetych'') was a prominent

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

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 artist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of

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style, including '' The Motherland Calls'', the largest sculpture in the world at the time.

Biography

Vuchetich was born in

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(now Dnipro,

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), the son of Viktor Vuchetich (Vučetić), of Serbian descent, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, of

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and of French descent.Иван Шевцов
Соколы.
Русское Воскресение. He was a prominent representative of the

Socialist Realism Socialist realism is a style of idealized realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was the official style in that country between 1932 and 1988, as well as in other socialist countries after World War II. Socialist realism is c ...

style and was awarded with the Lenin Prize in 1970, the

Stalin Prize Stalin Prize may refer to: * The State Stalin Prize in science and engineering and in arts, awarded 1941 to 1954, later known as the USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize (russian: links=no, Государственная премия СССР, ...

(1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950),

Order of Lenin The Order of Lenin (russian: Орден Ленина, Orden Lenina, ), named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was established by the Central Executive Committee on April 6, 1930. The order was the highest civilian decoration ...

(twice),

Order of the Patriotic War The Order of the Patriotic War (russian: Орден Отечественной войны, Orden Otechestvennoy voiny) is a Soviet military decoration that was awarded to all soldiers in the Soviet armed forces, security troops, and to partisa ...

(2nd degree),

Hero of Socialist Labor The Hero of Socialist Labour (russian: links=no, Герой Социалистического Труда, Geroy Sotsialisticheskogo Truda) was an honorific title in the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries from 1938 to 1991. It repre ...

(1967) and People's Artist of the USSR (1959).

Family

One of his step-granddaughters is Israeli politician

Ksenia Svetlova Ksenia Svetlova ( he, קסניה סבטלובה; russian: Ксения Светлова, born Moscow 28 July 1977) is an Israeli politician, journalist, associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and policy fellow at the Israeli I ...

Works

* Soviet War MemorialSowjetische Ehrenmal
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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 swastika. 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. *'' Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares'' 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 ( rus, Волгогра́д, a=ru-Volgograd.ogg, p=vəɫɡɐˈɡrat), formerly Tsaritsyn (russian: Цари́цын, Tsarítsyn, label=none; ) (1589–1925), and Stalingrad (russian: Сталингра́д, Stalingrád, label=none; ) ...

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

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at the

Lubyanka Square Lubyanskaya Square (, Lubyanskaya ploshchad'), or simply Lubyanka in Moscow lies about north-east of Red Square. History first records its name in 1480, when Grand Prince Ivan III of Moscow, who had conquered Novgorod in 1471, settled many Novg ...

. *'' The Motherland Calls!'' at

Mamayev Kurgan Mamayev Kurgan (russian: Мамаев Курган) 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 ...

(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

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1908 births 1974 deaths Heroes of Socialist Labour Lenin Prize winners 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 Stalin Prize winners Ukrainian people of Russian descent Ukrainian people of Serbian descent Ukrainian people of French descent Ukrainian male sculptors Ukrainian sculptors 20th-century sculptors {{Russia-sculptor-stub Russian people of French descent Soviet people of French descent

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