Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich (28 December [O.S. 15 December] 1908–12 April 1974) (Russian: Евгений Викторович Вучетич) was a prominent Soviet sculptor and artist. He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style.

He was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine). Father of Yevgeny Vuchetich, Viktor, was of Montenegrin nationality, and his mother Anna Andreevna Stewart was a Russian 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 of Lenin (twice), Order of the Patriotic War (2nd degree), Hero of Socialist Labor (1967) and People's Artist of the USSR (1959).

[edit] Works

• Soviet War Memorial^[1] 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.
• Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares in the United Nations garden (1957)^[2]
• 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)

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  Soviet War Memorial, Berlin

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  Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares

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  Let Us Beat Swords into Plowshares

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  Monument to Yevgeny Vuchetich in Moscow

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