Volgograd
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Volgograd, formerly Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad, is the administrative centre and largest city of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of 859.4 squar
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May 2015 Volgograd img 18 Central station
Dmitry Medvedev in Volgograd Oblast, March 2010 3
May 2015 Volgograd img 13 P Lenina metrotram station
The Motherland Calls
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The Motherland Calls is a colossal neoclassicist and socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, Russia. Designed primarily by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich with assistance f
Volgograd
…of World War II. In 1961, Nikita Khrushchev's administration renamed the city to Volgograd as part of de-Stalinization. Volgograd today is the site of The Motherland Calls, an 85-metre (279 ft) high statue dedicated to the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad, which is the tallest statue in Europe, as well as the second…
The Motherland Calls detail Volgograd, October 2018
The Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich and Yakov Belopolsky
The Winged Victory of Samothrace served as inspiration for the final design of the sculpture.
Yevgeny Vuchetich meeting with veterans of the Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd in 1967. From left to right: Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Pavlov, Colonel General Aleksandr Rodimtsev, Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov, and Vuchetich.