Mother Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна-мати) 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.
In 2023, the Soviet heralrdry had been removed from the monument’s shield and replaced with Ukraine’s coat of arms, the tryzub.
The titanium statue stands 62 m (203 ft) tall upon the museum’s main building with the overall structure measuring 102 m (335 ft) including its base and weighing 560 tonnes. The sword in the statue’s right hand is 16 m (52 ft) long, weighing 9 tonnes, with the left hand holding up a 13 by 8 m (43 by 26 ft) shield originally emblazoned with the hammer and sickle emblem of the soviet union.
Initially, the statue was drawn by the sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich. Vuchetich based the statue on the Ukrainian painter Nina Danyleiko. When Vuchetich died in 1974, the project was continued by Vasyl Borodai, who used Ukrainian sculptor Halyna Kalchenko, a daughter of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR Nikifor Kalchenko, as the model.
Material: photopolymer
Color: silver-metallic statue
Height: 240 mm (9.45 in)
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