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Jevgenjij Vucetic, originally a Serb by his father, Viktor Vučetić with a Russian mother, Anna Andreyevna, was a participant in the Great Patriotic War. The holder of the highest awards and the Order of the Soviet Union

The "Mother calls upon the Fatherland" statue in Volgograd in Russia was made in memory of the Battle of Stalingrad. They were made by a prominent Russian sculptor and  artist of Serbian origin Jevgenjij Vucetic and architect Nikolai Nikitin.

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It was declared the highest statue in the world in 1967 and the last non-religious statue, which was declared the tallest.

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Jevgenjij Vucetic, originally a Serb by his father, Viktor Vucetic with a Russian mother, Anna Andreyevna, was a participant in the Great Patriotic War. The holder of the highest awards and the Order of the Soviet Union.

He received the Lenin Prize, the Stalin Prize,the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War and was declared a hero of the socialist war.

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The most famous works of Jevgenjij Vucetic are the sculpture of "Mother calls upon the Fatherland" in Kyiv, a height of 63 meters, as well as the world's tallest sculpture "Mother Fatherland" in Volgograd, built from 1959 to 1967, at a height of 87 meters.

In addition to these sculptures, he left great works in Berlin, New York, Paris, and throughout the former Soviet Union.

(Telegraf.co.uk)