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Mother Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна-Мати, romanized: Ukraina-Maty [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ ˈmɑtɪ]) is a monumental Soviet-era statue in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War . [ 1 ]
The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with ...
Mother Motherland (Ukrainian: Батьківщина-Мати, tr. Batʹkivshchyna-Maty, Russian: Родина-мать, tr. Rodina-mat' ), now called Mother Ukraine, is a monumental statue in Kyiv that is a part of the Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II; Mother Motherland (Saint Petersburg), a statue at the Piskarevskoye Memorial ...
Ukraine: Cossack Mamay, Mother Ukraine, Berehynia: Ruthenian Lion United Kingdom: Britannia. John Bull [38] Scota ; Dame Wales ; Bulldog. The Lion and the Unicorn (England and Scotland) Welsh dragon (Wales) Manx cat United States: Columbia, Lady Liberty [39] The Minuteman (American Revolution) Uncle Sam (federal government)
Ukraine has removed Soviet-era signage from a hilltop monument in Kyiv, amid a conflict that has seen the country fight to reassert its cultural identity in the face of Russian President Vladimir ...
The statue, along with the rest of the complex, was dedicated on 15 October 1967, and has been listed as a tentative candidate for UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites since 2014. The sculpture depicts a female personification of Russia, commonly referred to as Mother Russia. She wears a windswept shawl resembling wings, and holds a sword ...
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper -clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France , was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its ...
Since 14 May 2022, according to the decision of the Kyiv City Council, the monument is named the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian People. [8]The official name from opening date in 1982 until its renaming was Peoples' Friendship Arch, colloquially the monument was referred to as the Rainbow (Ukrainian: Райдуга, romanized: Raiduha) or the Yoke (Ukrainian: Ярмо́, romanized: Yarmo [2 ...