Vasyl Zakharovych Borodai ( uk , Василь Захарович Бородай; 18 August 1917–19 April 2010) was a

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sculptor, painter and

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. He was known for his public monuments. Borodai was awarded the title, People's Painter of the USSR, and was

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of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union and Ukraine.

Biography

Vasyl Zakharovych Borodai was born on 18 August 1917 in

Yekaterinoslav Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...

(now Dnipro), Ukraine. He was a

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veteran. While studying in Kyiv Arts Institute in 1947–1953, Borodai was a student of Ukrainian sculptor Mykhailo Lysenko. Borodai's daughter was painter Halyna Vasylivna Borodai, and he was a guardian of another Ukrainian sculptor Alexander Kostetsky who early lost his father. He died on 19 April 2010 in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

Gallery

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Monument of the Great October Revolution ''Monument of the Great October Revolution'' was a Soviet monument that was located on the October Revolution Square from 1977–1991 (now Independence Square) in Kiev, at the time the capital of the Ukrainian SSR as part of the Soviet Unio ...

(1977)

References

External links

Vasyl Borodai
in the

Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( uk, Українська радянська енциклопедія, ''Ukrayinska radyanska entsyklopediya'') was a multi-purpose encyclopedia of Ukraine, issued in the USSR. First attempt Following th ...

* Tkachova, L.I.
Borodai Vasyl Zakharovych (БОРОДАЙ ВАСИЛЬ ЗАХАРОВИЧ)
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