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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 ]
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)
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 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 ...
The controversial Bronze Soldier of Tallinn monument, vandalized in protest of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, 12 April 2022.. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that had commenced in February 2022, a number of Soviet-era monuments and memorials were demolished or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced in former Eastern Bloc Soviet satellite states, as well as several ...
The acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services gave his own version of the famous poem written on the Statue of Liberty's pedestal.
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 ...