The monument, a 102 meter-tall statue that towers over the surrounding ... “In Kiev, a trident was installed on the monument ‘Motherland,’” the ministry’s spokesperson, Maria Zakharova ...

Standing a whopping 335ft and weighing some 560 tonnes, the 'Motherland' statue depicts an imposing woman - known colloquially as 'Baba', or 'Grandma' - holding a shield and sword aloft above her ...

A Kyiv monument traded a 42-year-old Soviet coat of arms for a modern trident Sunday, a swap that exemplifies the war-torn country’s fight against the 21st-century Russian army and the vestiges ...

The statue, built by the Soviet Union and completed in 1981, depicts a robed woman holding high a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. The shield's prominent hammer and sickle were ...

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 ...

This is where Soviet forces repelled Nazi Germany’s advance at the cost of more than 1 million casualties. Motherland Calls was the tallest statue in the world from its completion until 1975.

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 The sickle and hammer, symbols of the Soviet Union, have been replaced by a ...

The Soviet-era emblem on Kyiv's Motherland statue has been replaced with the Ukrainian coat of arms. The tryzub emblem is said to represent a stronger self-identity for Ukraine. The works are set ...