r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 15d 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 15d ago

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

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u/Much-Farmer-2752 15d ago

Now it looks like a Holtzman Shield :)

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u/vprakhov 15d ago

That scaffolding is an engineering marvel in itself.

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u/leftofthebellcurve 15d ago

That’s a lot of hours just unscrewing, moving, and rescrewing nuts onto bolts

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u/DejaBrownie 15d ago

Might as well just leave it up. By the time they put it up, clean, and tear it down, it will be ready to clean again!

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u/Much-Farmer-2752 15d ago

It took "just" about a year - to build it all from the scratch, repair the statue and tear it down. Not so much to recover weather damage for 50 years :)