01.07.1889 – 10.06.1953

The legendary monument “The Worker and the Collective Farm Woman”, which became a symbol of the Soviet Union, a symbol of the ideal of the working people of the young Soviet country, was first presented at the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris. In 1947 he became the emblem of the studio “Mosfilm”, due to which it is widely known to this day. The monument is located near the northern entrance to VDNH, its height is 25 meters, and the weight is about 185 tons. The pedestal on which it is located is a pavilion with an exhibition hall dedicated to the history of the monument.

The author of this and many other works is the outstanding sculptor Vera Mukhina. She was born into a family of a prosperous merchant and received an excellent education, studied in France with Bourdelle, studied in Italy, but returned to her homeland with the outbreak of World War I and became a sister of mercy in the hospital. There she met her future husband Alexei Zamkov. In the 1920s Dr. Zamkov worked at the Institute of Experimental Biology and successfully developed a hormonal drug, but this activity aroused dissatisfaction among his colleagues, and after a wave of devastating criticism, a link to Voronezh followed. Vera Ignatovna followed her husband. Alexey Zamkov was appointed as a doctor to the clinic for workers of the car repair factory, Vera Mukhina continued to work on a major project – a monument to Taras Shevchenko, which was never implemented. The exiles resided in Voronezh on Pervomayskaya Street in House No. 21. They returned to Moscow in two or more years.

Vera Mukhina created many sculptural projects such as “Liberated Labor”, “Revolution”, “Peasant Woman”, etc., as well as a number of sculptural portraits and monuments that adorn not only Moscow, but also other cities. In 1943 a monument to Maxim Gorky was erected near the Belorussian station in Moscow. In 1950 – 1952 she was created her sculpture “Science”, installed in front of the building of Moscow State University.

Vera Mukhina died on October 6, 1953 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.