Europe’s biggest statue is 279 feet tall and is among the largest in the world measuring more than the length of ten London buses The Motherland Calls is a monumental statue located in Volgograd ...

The ‘Motherland Calls’ in Volgograd is epic. At 279 feet (85 m), it’s the tallest statue in Europe and the most famous WWII monument in Russia. Consequently, its renovation works are equally ...

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Workers remove the Soviet Coat of Arms from the shield in the hand of the country’s tallest statue, the Motherland Monument, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Ukraine is accelerating e… ...

3 The Motherland Monument is a 102-meter-high statue commemorating Soviet victory in World War II. The steel figure looks east from the right bank of the Dnieper River in Kyiv.

Ukraine replaced the Soviet Union hammer and sickle on the shield of its massive Motherland Monument with the national trident coat of arms.

The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital — was unveiled in 1981 and designed to assert Soviet invincibility.

Workers installed Ukraine's national trident on an iconic monument depicting the Motherland in Kyiv on Sunday, replacing old Soviet symbols in one of the most visible examples of breaking away ...

The Motherland Monument, a 335-foot statue of a woman holding a sword and shield, has towered over Kyiv since 1981 as a symbol of the U.S.S.R.’s triumphs during World War II. Workers dismantled ...