Photos - Rodina Mat Kiev
The 62m high Rodina Mat Motherland Statue, locally as Brezhnev’s Daughter, towers over the city of Kiev and is visible from many parts of town. It is probably one of the largest Soviet statues, together with the Motherland statue in Volgograd. We visited Rodina Mat together with Museum of the Great Patriotic War when we were in Kiev in 2006.
The Museum of the Great Patriotic War itself is a typical Soviet museum displaying the suffering of the Soviet people and heroics of the Red Army during World War II. Outside is a giants sculpture complex depicting various battles during the war. There is also an outdoor exposition where Soviet tanks, aircraft canons, rockets and other military hardware is displayed. A museum and monument dedicated to the war in Afghanistan was added to the complex later. Inside the statue is a large room with the names of the hero’s of the Soviet Union on in scripted in the walls and frescos on the ceiling. Rodina Mat is right next door from the Cave Monastery Pecherska Lavra, Kiev’s most famous tourist attraction, the two make an ideal combination for a day programme.
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Great Patriotic War memorial complex with Motherland monument
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Front view if the giant motherland monument in Kiev Ukraine
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The sun behind the motherland statue at Rodina Mat Complex
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Soviet Great Patriotic War memorial complex with sculptures
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Sculpture gallery for the heroes of the front and the rear
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Rodina Mat Sculpture gallery with Red Army infantry attacking
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Rodina Mat Sculpture gallery with civilians mourning the dead
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Rodina Mat Sculpture gallery with heroic Soviet partisans
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Rodina Mat Sculpture gallery with Soviet border guards attacking
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Rodina Mat Sculpture gallery with factory workers producing arms
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Rodina Mat Sculpture gallery with decorated red army soldier
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Rodina Mat Sculpture gallery with farmers working the land
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Sculpture of a Katyusha rocket launcher with red army soldiers
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Red army soldiers depicting during the battle for the Dnieper
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Red army soldiers depicting during the battle for the Dnieper
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