Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (Russian: Евгений Викторович Вучетич; –12 April 1974) was a Soviet sculptor and artist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style, including The Motherland Calls, the largest sculpture in the world at the time.

Biography Vuchetich was born in Yekaterinoslav, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine), the son of Viktor Vuchetich (Vučetić), a Montenegrin Serb (Grbalj) immigrant, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, of Russian and of French descent.Иван Шевцов. Соколы. Русское Воскресение.

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

Family

One of his step-granddaughters is Israeli politician Ksenia Svetlova.

Works Soviet War MemorialSowjetische Ehrenmal in Treptower Park, Berlin (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 coins and medals commemorating the end of fascist rule in 1945. Stalin Prize of first degree (1950) Nikolai Vatutin monument in Kyiv, Ukraine (1948). Minkultura recommends that Kyiv dismantle the Vatutin monument near the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainska Pravda (27 January 2023) This monument was dismantled on 9 February 2023. Mariinsky Park without Vatutin. The monument to the Soviet general was finally demolished, Ukrainska Pravda – Zhyttia (9 February 2023) Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the United Nations 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. A sculpture of Felix Dzerzhinsky (1958), colloquially known as "Iron Felix", used to be in Moscow at the Lubyanka Square. The Motherland Calls! at Mamayev Kurgan (1963–1967). Lenin Prize (1970).

Awards 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) Stalin prize 1st class (1947) Stalin prize 2nd class (1948) Stalin prize 2nd class (1949) Stalin prize 1st class (1950) Two Order of Lenin (19 September 1952 and 15 October 1967)

See also

List of Russian artists

References