The chancellor of Russia’s top sports university has died inside the head of ‘Motherland Calls’, a World War II memorial that ...

Professor Nikolay Chesnokov, 68, was found dead inside the famous The Motherland Calls monument in Volgograd - despite the ...

One record-breaking architectural that did see the light of day is The Motherland Calls!, a 172-foot-tall statue of a woman raising a sword (279 feet if you include the sword itself) located in ...

3 The Motherland Monument is a 102-meter-high statue commemorating Soviet victory in World War II. The steel figure looks east from the right bank of the Dnieper River in Kyiv. 4 The current steel ...

The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital — was unveiled in 1981 and designed to assert Soviet invincibility. By Cassandra Vinograd ...

NewsThe long-postponed transformation of the capital's imposing statue, erected under the USSR in 1981, is now complete. The sickle and hammer, symbols of the Soviet Union, have been replaced by a ...

KYIV, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Workers installed Ukraine's national trident on an iconic monument depicting the Motherland in Kyiv ... a 62-metre-tall (200-foot) steel statue of a female warrior, was ...