Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

Visible from the Red Square are (photographed from a distance):

Mikhail Vasil'evich Frunze Михаил Васильевич Фрунзе (Pishpek 1885 - Moscow 1925) Bolshevik leader during and just prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917 (Wikipedia). Sculptor Sergey Merkurov and architect I.A. Frantsuz - И.А. Француз (1947).	Andrey Aleksandrovich Zhdanov Андрей Александрович Жданов (Mariupol 1896 - Moscow 1948), Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1941-1948. (Wikipedia). Sculptor Sergey Merkurov and architect I.A. Frantsuz - И.А. Француз (1949).	Semën Mikhaylovich Budënnyy Семён Михаилович Будённый (Kozyurin, st. Platovskaya, Sal'skiy okrug 1883 - Moscow 1973) Soviet cavalryman, military commander and politician (Wikipedia). Sculptor Nikolay Tomskiy (1975).
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov Климент Ефремович Ворошилов​ (Lysychansk 1881 - Moscow 1969), Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, 1953-1960 (Wikipedia). Sculptor N.I. Bratsun (1970).	Leonid Il'ich Brezhnev Леонид Ильич Брежнев (Kamenskoye 1906 - Moscow 1982) General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1964-1982 (Wikipedia). Sculptor Iulian Rukavishnikov, architect G. Makarevich - Г.В. Макаревич (1983).	Yuriy Vladimirovich Andropov Юрий Владимирович Андропов (Nagutskaya 1914 - Moscow 1984) General Secretary of the Communist Party, 1982-1984 (Wikipedia). Sculptor Viktor Sonin, architect S.I. Kulev - С.И. Кулев (1985)
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin Михаил Иванович Калинин (Verkhnyaya Troitsa, Tverskaya guberniya 1875 - Moscow 1970) Bolshevik revolutionary and the nominal head of state of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946 (Wikipedia). Sculptor Sergey Merkurov and architect I.A. Frantsuz - И.А. Француз (1947).	Joseph Stalin Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин (Gori, Georgia 1878 - Moscow 1953) Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953 (Wikipedia). Sculptor Nikolay Tomskiy (1970).	Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov Михаил Андреевич Суслов 1902 - 1982 Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1965-1982 (Wikipedia). Sculptor Iulian Rukavishnikov, architect Yu.N. Voskresenskiy - Ю.Н. Воскресенский (1983).

Not photographed are:

• Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov - Яков Михайлович Свердлов (Nizhniy Novgorod 1885 - Moscow 1919), Chairman of the Secretariat of the Russian Communist Party 1918-1919 (Wikipedia).
  Sculptor Sergey Merkurov and architect I.A. Frantsuz - И.А. Француз (1947).
• Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (Polish: Feliks Dzierżyński, Russian: Феликс Эдмундович Дзержинский) (Ivyanets 1877 - Moscow 1926), first director of the Bolshevik secret police (Wikipedia).
• Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko - Константин Устинович Черненко (Bolshaya Tes, Yeniseysk gub. 1911 - Moscow 1985), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1984-1985 (Wikipedia).
  Sculptor Lev Kerbel', architect S.P. Khadzhibaronov - С.П. Хаджибаронов (1986).

Sculptor

• Sergey Dmitriyevich Merkurov - Сергей Дмитриевич Меркуров (Aleksandropol' 1881 - Moscow 1952), Soviet Russian sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

• Clow.ru, Монументальная летопись, file 27-28.

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