Monument to Heroic Defenders of Leningrad.
20th c Russian Modernist Sculpture

Sergey SPERANSKY (Kazan. Russia, 23 May 1914 - 10 March 1983, St. Petersburg)
1975
20th c
Modernist
St. Petersburg. Ploshchad Pobedy. Russia.
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Commemorates the victims of the Siege of Leningrad (8 September 1941-27 January 1944) by the Nazis. 641,000-800,000 Russians died during the Siege. The monument was designed by Speransky and Kamensky, with sculpture by Anikushin.