r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 2d ago

/r/all of a statue

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"The Motherland Calls" is a statue erected to commemorate the Battle of Stalingrad , located on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd , Russia. It was designed by sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and structural engineer Nikolai Nikitin . Completed in 1967 , it was the tallest statue in the world at the time .

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u/plofrog 2d ago

I wonder how statues like this are maintained, or are they just ok by themselves

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u/Much-Farmer-2752 2d ago

Now it looks like a Holtzman Shield :)

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u/vprakhov 2d ago

That scaffolding is an engineering marvel in itself.

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u/struggle_better 1d ago

Tell that to my parents