Yevgeny (also: Evgeniy) Viktorovich Vuchetich (1908-1974)
was a prominent sculptor and artist in the Soviet Union of Montenegrin descent,
born in Yekaterinoslav (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine). He was mostly known for his
heroic monuments. As a prominet representative of Soviet Realism he was awarded
many government prizes: Lenin Prize, Stalin Prize for Art, Order of Lenin and
the Order of the Patriotic War.
His works include the famous statue Let us beat our
swords into ploughshares (1959) that stands in the garden of the United
Nations Headquarters Building in New York. Also he made the large Soviet War
Memorial in Treptower Park in Berlin.
He was the sculptor of a number of statues Mother
Motherland, such as those in Volgograd and Kiev. He died while working on
the monument in Kiev, which was completed seven years after his death.
The photo shows the Mother Motherland statue in
Volgograd, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad, erected in 1967. From the
top of the plint to the tip of the sword is a distance of 85 meters.
The Russian Bank issued a commemorative silver 2 rubles
coin on 1 December 2008 for the birth centenary of Vuchetich.
Related subject
Let us
beat swords into ploughshares
Links
Article on Vuchetich in Wikipedia.
The commemorative coin from the Central Bank of the Russian
Federation.
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last revised: 16 September 2010