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Yevgeny Vuchetich

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Soviet sculptor and artist (1908–1974)

In this name that followsEast Slavic naming customs, thepatronymic is Viktorovich and thefamily name is Vuchetich.

Yevgeny Vuchetich
Vuchetich on a 2008 Russian ruble
Born	Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich December 1908 Yekaterinoslav,Yekaterinoslav Governorate,Russian Empire (nowUkraine)
Died	April 12, 1974(1974-04-12) (aged 65)
Notable work	The Motherland Calls

Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (Russian: Евгений Викторович Вучетич; 28 December [O.S. 15 December] 1908–12 April 1974) was aSoviet sculptor andartist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often ofallegoric style, includingThe Motherland Calls, the largest sculpture in the world at the time.

Biography

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Vuchetich was born inYekaterinoslav,Yekaterinoslav Governorate,Russian Empire (nowUkraine), the son of Viktor Vuchetich (Vučetić), aSerb fromMontenegro (Grbalj) immigrant, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, ofRussian and ofFrench descent.^[1]

He was a prominent representative of theSocialist Realism style and was awarded with theLenin Prize in 1970, theStalin Prize first degree (1947, 1950), theStalin Prize second degree (1946, 1948, 1949),Order of Lenin(twice),Order of the Patriotic War second degreeHero of Socialist Labor (1967) andPeople's Artist of the USSR (1959).

Family

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One of his step-granddaughters is Israeli politicianKsenia Svetlova.

Works

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Soviet War Memorial^[2] inTreptower Park,Berlin (1946–1949), overseen by a 13m tall monument of a Soviet soldier holding a German child, with a sword, over a brokenswastika. This war memorial design was later used oncoins andmedals commemorating the end of fascist rule in 1945.Stalin Prize of first degree (1950)
Nikolai Vatutin monument inKyiv,Ukraine (1948).^[3] This monument was dismantled on 9 February 2023.^[4]
Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in theUnited Nations garden (1957)^[5]
Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in front of the plant "Gazoapparat" inVolgograd.
A sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1958), colloquially known as "Iron Felix", used to be inMoscow at theLubyanka Square.
The Motherland Calls! atMamayev Kurgan (1963–1967).Lenin Prize (1970).

The Motherland Calls
Let Us BeatSwords into Plowshares
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park
Vatutin monument in Kyiv as photographed in 2015

Awards

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Hero of Socialist Labour (10 October 1967)
Peoples Artist of the RSFSR (1951)
Honored worker of art of the Kazakh SSR (1957)
Peoples Artist of the USSR
Stalin prize 2nd class (1946)^[6]
Stalin prize 1st class (1947)^[7]
Stalin prize 2nd class (1948)
Stalin prize 2nd class (1949)^[8]
Stalin prize 1st class (1950)
Two Order of Lenin (19 September 1952 and 15 October 1967)^[9]

References

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^Иван Шевцов.Соколы. Русское Воскресение.
^Sowjetische Ehrenmal
^(in Ukrainian)Minkultura recommends that Kyiv dismantle the Vatutin monument near the Verkhovna Rada,Ukrainska Pravda (27 January 2023)
^(in Ukrainian)Mariinsky Park without Vatutin. The monument to the Soviet general was finally demolished,Ukrainska Pravda – Zhyttia (9 February 2023)
^Swords Into Plowshares, United Nations Cyber School Bus, United Nations, UN.org, 2001, retrieved on: August 4, 2007
^"О присуждении Сталинских премий за выдающиеся работы в области искусства и литературы за 1945 год".Pravda (in Russian). No. 151. 17 June 1946. p. 3.
^"О присуждении Сталинских премий за выдающиеся работы в области искусства и литературы за 1946 год".Pravda (in Russian). No. 143. 7 June 1947. p. 3.
^"В Совете Министров Союза ССР О присуждении Сталинских премий за выдающиеся работы в области литературы и искусства за 1948 год".Pravda (in Russian). No. 100. 10 April 1949. p. 3.
^"Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР О присвоении звания Героя Социалистического Труда народному художнику СССР скульптору Вучетичу Е.В."(PDF).Vedomosti Verkhovnogo Soveta SSSR (in Russian). No. 42. 18 October 1967.

v t e Yevgeny Vuchetich
Sculptures	Nikolai Vatutin monument (1948) Soviet War Memorial (1949) Monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky (1958) Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares (1959) The Motherland Calls (1967)
Posthumous	Mother Ukraine (1979, 1981, designed)