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Georgi Zelma’s photograph of soldiers charging up Mamayev Hill with their guns at the ready became one of the iconic photographs of Soviet heroism in the battle of Stalingrad. What draws the eye…
Contributor:
Georgi Zelma
Places:
Stalingrad, USSR (Volgograd, Russia)
Date:
1942
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Tomb of an Israeli Soldier I was one of a series of works painted by Michail Grobman at a time when any sympathetic gesture toward Israel was, for Soviet Jews, an act of defiance. Grobman’s very style…
Contributor:
Mikhail Grobman
Places:
Moscow, USSR (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1963
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Vadim Sidur was sometimes called “the Soviet Henry Moore” because of the similarities between his aesthetic and those of the British artist. In Sidur’s native Soviet Union, however, his work was…
Contributor:
Vadim Sidur
Places:
Pushkin, USSR (Pushkin, Russia)
Date:
1972