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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 ]
[12] [13] Since February 2014 and mid-April 2015, more than 500 statues of Lenin were dismantled in Ukraine, and nearly 1,700 were still standing. [citation needed] Pulled down: Kyiv: a statue of Lenin stood in front of Bessarabskyi Market. It had been erected in 1946. On June 30, 2009, the nose of the statue and part of the left hand were ...
The majority of sculptures of the chapel’s interior are made by Hans Ficher. The dome is divided into 36 rectangular panels, recessed in three rows. They fill the figures of Christ, the apostles, prophets, angels with instruments of the Passion Pańzkiej and saints. At the top of the dome there is the octagonal lantern light.
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 ...
Zbruch Idol, Kraków Archaeological Museum Zbruch Idol. The Zbruch Idol, Sviatovid (Worldseer, Polish: Światowid ze Zbrucza; Ukrainian: Збручанський ідол) is a 9th-century limestone sculpture idol, [1] and one of the few monuments of pre-Christian Slavic beliefs [citation needed] (according to another interpretation, it was created by the Kipchaks/Cumans).
Ukrainian soldiers returning from the front lines in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region — where Russia is waging a fierce offensive — describe life during what has turned into a grueling war of ...
Christ of the Ozarks in Arkansas, United States; Christ of the Sacred Heart above the town of El Morro, near the city of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico; Christ of Vũng Tàu in Vung Tau city, Vietnam; Le Christ Roi, Dog River, Matn District, Lebanon [1] Christ the King in Świebodzin, western Poland; Christ the Redeemer of the Andes ...
The Christ the Redeemer statue atop Corcovado mountain was meant to be an act of religious propaganda for Rio de Janeiro. But over the past century, it has become the symbol of the tolerant ...