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The Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich and Yakov Belopolsky. The Battle of Stalingrad was a major conflict between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II, fought over six months from July 1942 to February 1943. [1]
The Peter the Great Statue is a 98-metre-high (322 ft) monument to Peter the Great, located at the western confluence of the Moskva River and the Vodootvodny Canal in central Moscow, Russia. It was designed by the Georgian designer Zurab Tsereteli to commemorate 300 years of the Russian Navy , which Peter the Great established.
The battle, a hard-fought Soviet victory over Axis forces on the Eastern Front of World War II, turned into one of the bloodiest battles in human history. [2] At the time of its installation in 1967 the statue, named The Motherland Calls, formed the largest free-standing sculpture in the world. [3]
The statue influenced a 1833 poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, which is widely considered one of the most significant works of Russian literature. The statue is now one of the symbols of Saint Petersburg. The statue's pedestal is the Thunder Stone, the largest stone ever moved by humans. [1]
This article is a list of current and former known monuments of Vladimir Lenin.Many of the monuments in former Soviet republics and people's republics were removed after the fall of the Soviet Union, while some of these countries, mainly Russia and Belarus, retained the thousands of Lenin statues that were erected during the Soviet period.
This list of tallest statues includes completed statues that are at least 50 m (160 ft) tall. The height values in this list are measured to the highest part of the human (or animal) figure, but exclude the height of any pedestal (plinth), or other base platform as well as any mast, spire, or other structure that extends higher than the tallest figure in the monument.
The height of the monument is 22 m. At the top of the cylindrical column of red polished granite is a bronze statue of V. I. Lenin in full growth. His figure is directed forward, his gaze is turned to the distance. Lenin's coat is unbuttoned, one floor is thrown back by the wind, the right hand is in the jacket's jacket. [1]
The greatest problems arose with the manufacture of the largest segment – the cosmonaut's face. Its weight was 300 kilograms (660 lb), which was too heavy for melting in a vacuum oven. The Monument to Yuri Gagarin is the world's first large-scale monument made of titanium. [2] [4] The figure of Gagarin is facing upward.