The Motherland Calls is enormous. The tallest statue in Europe, it is 85 meters tall and weighs 8,000 tons! It is the best-known World War II monument in Russia. Every year, thousands of tourists ...

The culmination of the memorial experience leads to “The Motherland Calls” statue. From the foot of the gigantic sculpture (standing tall at 279 feet) there can be seen a magnificent panoramic ...

Volgograd's epic World War II memorial gets a touch-up. 1 The Motherland Calls statue, in Russia’s southern city of Volgograd, on October 16 after scaffolding was partly removed following ...

Criterion (i): Mamayev Kurgan Memorial complex "To the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad” represents a unique composition, a harmonious and well-laid-out work of art, a symbol of World War II made of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday marked the 80th anniversary of the World War II Soviet victory over Nazi German forces in the battle of Stalingrad, and invoked the long and grueling fight ...

The Battle of Stalingrad. Renamed Volgograd in 1961 as part of Nikita Khrushchev’s process of de-Stalinisation, less than 10 years after the death of the dictator, Volgograd needed to be rebuilt ...

The chancellor of Moscow’s State Academy of Physical Education died inside the head of the towering Motherland Calls World War II memorial in southern Russia’s Volgograd region, local media ...

Russian honor guard soldiers march in front of the “Motherland Calls!” statue at the Mamayev Kurgan World War II Memorial in Volgograd ahead the 80th anniversary of the Stalingrad Battle.

The photo on the front of Cruz's book is of the Soviet statue "The Motherland Calls," unveiled in Volgograd (then named Stalingrad), at the Mamayev Kurgan Memorial Complex, to commemorate the ...

In a fiery speech in Volgograd, known as Stalingrad until 1961, Putin lambasted Germany for helping to arm Ukraine and said, not for the first time, that he was ready to draw on Russia's entire ...