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  2. Personification of Russia - Wikipedia

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    During the Soviet era, many statues depicting the Mother Motherland were built, most to commemorate the Great Patriotic War.These include: The Motherland Calls (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт, tr. Rodina-mat' zovyot), a colossal statue in Volgograd, Russia, commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad

  3. Homeland - Wikipedia

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    the Latvians as tēvija or tēvzeme (although dzimtene – roughly translated as "place that somebody grew up" – is more neutral and used more commonly nowadays) the Burmese as အမိမြေ (ami-myay) literally meaning "motherland" the Persians as Sarzamin e Pedari (Fatherland), Sarzamin e Mādari (Motherland) or Mihan (Home)

  4. Great Patriotic War (term) - Wikipedia

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    The term Patriotic War refers to the Russian resistance to the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon I, which became known as the Patriotic War of 1812.In Russian, the term отечественная война originally referred to a war on one's own territory (otechestvo means "the fatherland"), as opposed to a campaign abroad (заграничная война), [3] and later was ...

  5. Culture of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Russia is the place where many of the earliest experiments in electronic music and noise music took place. Arseny Avraamov 's magnum opus, "Symphony of the factory sirens" (composed in 1918, performed live in 1922) stood as one of the earliest experiments in noise music and a precursor to musique concrete , Avraamov was also a notable inventor ...

  6. The Motherland Calls - Wikipedia

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    The Motherland Calls (Russian: Родина-мать зовёт!, romanised: Rodina-mat' zovyot! ) is a colossal neoclassicist and socialist realist war memorial sculpture on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd , Russia.

  7. Fatherland – All Russia - Wikipedia

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    Fatherland – All Russia (FAR) was a political bloc that existed in Russia from 1998 to 2002.. It was formed from the movement Fatherland, chaired by the Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, and the movement All Russia, chaired by regional Presidents of the Republics of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, of Bashkortostan, Murtaza Rakhimov, of Ingushetia, Ruslan Aushev, and the Governor of St. Petersburg ...

  8. Family members of a traitor to the Motherland - Wikipedia

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    "Traitor to the Motherland family members" (Russian: ЧСИР: члены семьи изменника Родины, romanized: ChSIR: chleny sem'i izmennika Rodiny, lit. 'members of the family of a traitor of the Motherland') was a term in Article 58 of the Criminal Code of Russian SFSR (as amended on 8 June 1934 from the original wording of ...

  9. Motherland (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Motherland is the place of one's birth, ... Personifications of Russia, including a list of monuments called Motherland; Mother Ukraine Monument, ...