"George VI. After being put on public display in Britain, this was presented to Stalin by Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference later in 1943. Soviet propaganda spared no effort and wasted no time in capitalising on the triumph, impressing a global audience. The prestige of Stalin, the Soviet Union, and the worldwide Communist movement was immense, and their political position greatly enhanced. In recognition of the determination of its defenders, Stalingrad was awarded the title Hero City in 1945. A colossal monument called The Motherland Calls was erected in 1967 on Mamayev Kurgan, the hill overlooking the city where"
"of Lenin (twice), Order of the Patriotic War (2nd degree), Hero of Socialist Labor (1967) and People's Artist of the USSR (1959). One of his step-granddaughters is Israeli politician Ksenia Svetlova. Yevgeny Vuchetich Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (–12 April 1974) (, ""Evhen Viktorovich Vuchetich""; ) was a prominent 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. Vuchetich was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine), the son of Viktor Vučetić, of Serbian ethnicity, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, of Russian and"
"Yevgeny Vuchetich Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (–12 April 1974) (, ""Evhen Viktorovich Vuchetich""; ) was a prominent 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. Vuchetich was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine), the son of Viktor Vučetić, of Serbian ethnicity, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, of Russian and of French descent. He was a prominent representative of the Socialist Realism style and was awarded with the Lenin Prize in 1970, the Stalin Prize (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950), Order"
"wounded and 641,803 died of starvation. The center of the architectural composition is the bronze monument symbolizing the Mother Motherland, by sculptors V.V. Isaeva and R.К. Taurit. By granite steps leading down from the Eternal Flame visitors enter the main 480-meter path which leads to the majestic Motherland monument. The words of poet Olga Berggolts are carved on a granite wall located behind this monument: Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery () is located in Saint Petersburg, on the Avenue of the Unvanquished (Проспект Непокорённых), dedicated mostly to the victims of the Siege of Leningrad. The memorial complex designed by"
"Steel Works. The warrior is facing the west, to the side of the ""Great Patriotic War"". The three monuments are made to symbolize the sword being forged in Magnitogorsk, raised in ""The Motherland Calls"" in Volgograd (then ""Stalingrad"") and finally dropped to the ground after the victory in Berlin as a part of ""Warrior Liberator"". The composition also includes a stone flower made from Karelian granite with an eternal flame. Rear-front Memorial The ""Rear-front"" Memorial () is a bronze and granite monument located in the city of Magnitogorsk, Russia, sculpted by Lev Golovnitsky and drawn by Yakov Belopolsky. It is"
"which calls on its sons and daughters to repulse the enemy and continue their further attack. ""The Motherland Calls"" is highly complex from an engineering point of view, due to its characteristic posture with a sword raised high in the right hand and the left hand extended in a calling gesture. The technology behind the hollow statue is based on a combination of prestressed concrete with wire ropes, a solution which can also be found in another work of Nikitin's, the Ostankino Tower in Moscow. The sculpture is hollow. Inside, the entire statue consists of separate cells or chambers, like"
"Alyosha Monument, Murmansk Defenders of the Soviet Arctic during the Great Patriotic War (), commonly called Alyosha (; Alyosha is an affectionate diminutive form of the name Aleksey) is a monument in Murmansk, Russia to Soviet soldiers, sailors, and airmen of World War II (called, in Russia, the Great Patriotic War). The statue is of a soldier in a greatcoat with a rifle slung over his shoulder. The height of the pedestal is ; the statue is tall. It is the second-tallest statue in Russia, after The Motherland Calls in Volgograd. The weight of the statue, which is hollow, is"
"Leningrad Hero City Obelisk Leningrad Hero City Obelisk () is a monument in the shape of an obelisk located in Vosstaniya Square in Saint Petersburg, Russia, which was known as Leningrad from 1924 to 1991. It was installed on Victory Day of May 1985 to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Red Army's victory in the German-Soviet War. The monument was designed by architects Vladimir Lukyanov and A. I. Alymov. The Hero-City Obelisk is pentahedral in shape; its cross section has the shape of a star. In its lower part, the Obelisk is encircled with a bronze wreath covering the"
"cities as well as Antalya, Yerevan and Aktau. Volgograd's public transport system includes a light rail service known as the Volgograd metrotram. Local public transport is provided by buses, trolleybuses and trams. The Volga River still is a very important communication channel. Volgograd hosts one of the few floating churches in the world: the floating church of Saint Vladimir of Volgograd. Under the Köppen climate classification Volgograd has a humid continental climate (""Dfa"") with a hot summer subtype. A memorial complex commemorating the battle of Stalingrad, dominated by an immense allegorical sculpture ""The Motherland Calls"", was erected on the Mamayev"
"The Motherland Monument The Motherland Monument (, ) is a monumental statue in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of the Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II, Kiev. The stainless steel statue stands tall upon the museum main building with the overall structure measuring including its base and weighing 560 tons. The sword in the statue's right hand is long weighing 9 tons, with the left hand holding up a shield with the State Emblem of the Soviet Union. Initially the image of the statue was drawn by Vutchetich from Ukrainian painter"
"Brovko (since 2010) Both the flag and the coat of arms of Volgograd Oblast include an image of ""The Motherland Calls"", an 85 meter tall statue located in Volgograd. Primary branches of economics are agriculture, food production, heavy industry, gas and petroleum refining. The Volga Hydroelectric Station operates on the Volga River. The largest companies in the region include Volzhsky Pipe Plant, Volgogradenergosbyt (a local electric power distribution company), OJSC Kaustik (caustic soda manufacturer), Volzhsky Orgsintez (a chemical plant). Volgograd Oblast Volgograd Oblast (, ""Volgogradskaya oblast"") is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the Volga region of"
"the feet to the tip of the 27-metre sword, dominating the skyline of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed Volgograd). The construction uses concrete, except for the stainless-steel blade of the sword, and is held on its plinth solely by its own weight. The statue is evocative of classical Greek representations of Nike, in particular the flowing drapery, similar to that of the Nike of Samothrace. Mamayev Kurgan Mamayev Kurgan () is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) in Southern Russia. The name in Russian means ""tumulus of Mamai"". The formation is dominated by a memorial"
"Rear-front Memorial The ""Rear-front"" Memorial () is a bronze and granite monument located in the city of Magnitogorsk, Russia, sculpted by Lev Golovnitsky and drawn by Yakov Belopolsky. It is considered the first part of a triptych, also consisting of ""The Motherland Calls"" in Volgograd and ""Warrior Liberator"" in Treptower Park, Berlin. This monument was unveiled in 1989. By the time of construction of the monument, the author of the other two monuments, Evgeniy Vuchetich, had already died. The monument is composed of a worker and a warrior. The worker is oriented to the east, towards the Magnitogorsk Iron and"
"granite from Finland, was also carved at St Petersburg. Moving the statue and base to Moscow presented logistical challenges and was accomplished in winter by using the frozen waterways. However, in the wake of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, the monument could not be unveiled until 1818. The front of the base carries a bronze plaque depicting a scene of patriotic citizens sacrificing their property for the benefit of the motherland. On the left is an image of the sculptor Martos giving away his two sons (one of whom was killed in 1813) Originally, the statue stood in the centre of"
"of the Hero Cities"". One of the museums also displays the armaments used by the Soviet army post World War II. The sculptures in the alley depict the courageous defence of the Soviet border from the 1941 German invasion, terrors of the Nazi occupation, partisan struggle, devoted work on the home front, and the 1943 Battle of the Dnieper. The monumental sculpture of the ""Motherland"" (""Мати-Батьківщина""), built by Yevgeny Vuchetich stands 62 meters tall upon the museum building with the overall structure measuring 102 m and weighing 530 tons. The sword in the statue's right hand is 16 m long"
"joint of the two monoliths. The monument is decorated with bronze high reliefs devoted to the heroic defence of Leningrad while a gold star shines on its top. After the Alexander Column, it is the highest stone monument in Saint Petersburg. When Soviet forces eventually lifted the siege in January 1944, over one million inhabitants of Leningrad had died from starvation, exposure and German shelling. 300,000 soldiers had perished in the defence and relief of Leningrad. Leningrad was awarded the title Hero City in 1945, being the first city to receive that distinction. Installing the obelisk required highly skilled builders"
"Monument ""Motherland"" Matveev Kurgan The Monument ""Motherland"" Matveev Kurgan () is a Russian monument located near the village of Starorotovka. The monument is located on the departure from the settlement of Matveev Kurgan near the village Starorotovka, 300 meters from the route Rostov-on-Don (Russia)-Donetsk (Ukraine). On a high pedestal there is an artificial green barrow, a sculpture of a mother with a child in her arms. The monument is made of concrete. The sculptor is Perfilov V. I. Its height is 8 meters. There is a flower bed that leads to the monument where during spring bright poppies blossom, symbolizing"
"the status of “City of Military Glory” by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on October 8, 2007, for “courage, endurance and mass heroism, exhibited by defenders of the city in the struggle for the freedom and independence of the Motherland"". Part of Kaluga Oblast, the small town of Maloyaroslavets was caught up in the action of the Battle of Moscow from October 1941 to January 1942 and thus became, because for the “courage, endurance and mass heroism, exhibited by defenders of the city in the struggle for the freedom and independence of the Motherland” shown during"
"American playwright Ivan Fuller wrote a play about Berggolts in 2009 called ""Awake in Me"". Olga Bergholz Olga Fyodorovna Bergholz (; – November 13, 1975) was a Soviet poet, writer, playwright and journalist. She is most famous for her work on the Leningrad radio during the city's blockade, when she became the symbol of city's strength and determination. Olga Berggolts was born in a working suburb of St. Petersburg. Her father Fyodor Christophorovich Berggolts (1885—1948) was a surgeon of half-Russian and half-Latvian descent, although in 1942 he was forcefully sent to the Krasnoyarsk Krai as ""an ethnic German and a"
"Saint Basil's Cathedral The Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (, '), commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, is a church in Red Square in Moscow, Russia and is one of the most popular symbols of the country. The building, now a museum, is officially known as the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat (, ') or Pokrovsky Cathedral (). It was built from 1555–1561 on orders from Ivan the Terrible and commemorates the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan. It was the city's tallest building until the completion of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower"
"by public conscription in Nizhny Novgorod, the city from where Minin and Pozharsky came to save Moscow. Tsar Alexander I, however, decided the monument should be installed on Red Square next to the Moscow Kremlin rather than in Nizhny Novgorod. The competition for the best design was won by the celebrated sculptor Ivan Martos in 1808. Martos completed a model, which was approved by Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna and the Russian Academy of Fine Arts in 1813. Casting work using 1100 lbs of copper was carried out in 1816 in St Petersburg. The base, made of three massive blocks of"
"Stalingrad (2013 film) Stalingrad () is a 2013 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. It was the first Russian movie released in IMAX. The film was released in September 2013 in Volgograd (formerly ""Stalingrad"") and October in Russia before its international release in subsequent months (all releases were handled by the foreign-language arm of Columbia Pictures). The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Stalingrad received the I3DS (International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society) Jury Award for Russia in 2014. The film is"
"of the Motherland” during those years. A ceremony was held in the Moscow Kremlin on February 23, 2012 at which the city was represented by Mayor of Taganrog, Nikolay Fedyanin Tikhvin was conferred the status of “City of Military Glory” by the President of the Russian Federation Dmitriy Anatolyevich Medvedev on November 4, 2010, for “courage, endurance and mass heroism, exhibited by defenders of the city in the struggle for the freedom and independence of the Motherland”. In July 1942, when Sevastopol fell under Nazi German control, Tuapse became the main naval for the supply of Soviet troops in the"
"Victory Memorial to Soviet Army The Victory Memorial to Soviet Army ( – 'Victory Memorial'; – 'Memorial to the Liberators of Riga'), initially ""Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders"" (, ) is a memorial complex in Victory Park, Riga, Latvia erected in 1985 to commemorate the Soviet Army's victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. It was designed by sculptors Lev Bokovsky and Aivars Gulbis. The complex consists of a 79-meter tall obelisk and two groups of sculptures – Mother Motherland and a band of three soldiers. In 1997 the monument"
"Tolstoy, the Mikhaylovskoye Museum Reserve associated with Alexander Pushkin, the Dostoyevsky Museum, the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum. the Rimsky-Korsakov Apartment and Museum, the Mikhail Glinka Museum in Moscow, the Sergei Rachmaninoff Estate Museum in Ivanovka, Tambov Region, the Alexander Scriabin Apartment Museum in Moscow. Museums related to Russia's military history and military hardware include the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War on Poklonnaya Hill, the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of Russia in Moscow, the Central Museum of the Russian Air Force in Monino, Moscow Region, the Central Naval Museum in St Petersburg, the Battle of Stalingrad Museum in"
"Monument ""Regulator Maria"" Matveev Kurgan The Monument ""Regulator Maria"" Matveev Kurgan () is a Russian monument, located near Matveev Kurgan. Matveev-Kurgan district is rich in monuments to soldiers who defended the (Soviet) Motherland.The Mius Front was there during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1943). Its significance is equal to the Battle of Stalingrad. The fighting continued day and night. At the road fork of Rostov-Donetsk and Matveev Kurgan, a massive movement of military vehicles occurred, regulated by a young girl named Maria. The legend about the girl is preserved in the memory of her countrymen: ""The monument to the Regulator"" ""is"
"Odessa, Sevastopol, Minsk, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Tula and Brest, Murmansk and Smolensk. The plate for “Stalingrad” read “Volgograd” until September 2004. Further to the right of these monuments is an obelisk in red granite, listing the names of 40 “Cities of Military Glory” divided into groups of four. This monument was dedicated on May 8, 2010. In 1997, a Guard of Honour of the Kremlin Regiment (which had guarded the Lenin Mausoleum) was restored at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the federal law of December 8, 1997, ""On Immortalizing the Soviet People’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of"
"the defence of Sevastopol in 1941–1942; and ""The Day Stars"" (1959), an autobiographical novel that was turned into a movie of the same name by Igor Talankin in 1968. Olga's voice could be also heard in another Talankin's movie ""Introduction to Life"" (1963) as she reads her poetry. On May 9, 1960 Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery was opened dedicated to the victims of the Siege of Leningrad, with the words by Olga Berggolts engraved on the wall behind the Motherland monument. The last line ""No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten"" became a catchphrase since, often mentioned in Russia during memorial"
"1945 in the Tiergarten district of what later became West Berlin, and the Soviet War Memorial Schönholzer Heide in Berlin's Pankow district. Together with the ""Rear-front Memorial"" in Magnitogorsk and ""The Motherland Calls"" in Volgograd, the monument is a part of a triptych. At the conclusion of World War II, three Soviet war memorials were built in the city of Berlin to commemorate Soviet deaths in World War II, especially the 80,000 that died during the Battle of Berlin. The memorials are not only commemorative, but also serve as cemeteries for those killed. A competition was announced shortly after the"
"of the Long Lake (Ozero Dolgoye). Muzhestva Square Ploschad Muzhestva (], ) is an open public square, shaped as a roundabout, in the north-east of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Its name and decoration commemorate the fortitude city dwellers demonstrated during the nearly 900-day-long 1941–44 Nazi Germany Siege of Leningrad as the square opens the way to the biggest burial place of the siege victims Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery. The underground station of the same name opened next to the square on 31 December 1975. The square joins five streets, two of which form northeastern roughly latitudinal part of the city's Central Arc"
"language film in China until surpassed by India's ""PK"" in 2015. Stalingrad (2013 film) Stalingrad () is a 2013 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. It was the first Russian movie released in IMAX. The film was released in September 2013 in Volgograd (formerly ""Stalingrad"") and October in Russia before its international release in subsequent months (all releases were handled by the foreign-language arm of Columbia Pictures). The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Stalingrad received the I3DS (International 3D and Advanced"
"moved 5–6 July 2014 and re-assembled by July 21. Currently, the larger international exhibitions are mostly held at the new facilities of Moscow Expo Center. The exhibition center was rebuilt in the era of Joseph Stalin. The place selected was Moscow's northern suburb Ostankino. The main planner was Vyacheslav Oltarzhevsky who was planning a central avenue with fountains with small roads and at the end of the avenue a big square facing the central pavilion. A statue of Vladimir Lenin used to stand in the front of the pavilion. In the central square that was design in a shape of"
"but was remoulded in 1992 on the initiative of Marion Dönhoff, a native East Prussian who became prominent in the West. Also worth seeing is the Cosmonaut monument, which honours the Kaliningrad cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Yuri Romanenko and Aleksandr Viktorenko. Other statues and monuments include the statue for Duke Albert, the statue for Friedrich Schiller, the statue for Tsar Peter the Great, Vladimir Vysotsky, the ""Mother Russia"" monument, and the Monument for the 1200 Guardsmen, remembering the Battle of Königsberg. Kaliningrad is a very ""green"" city with a large number of parks and areas with lots of trees and lawns."