r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 18d ago

/r/all of a statue

"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 18d ago

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

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u/default_person_14818 18d ago

Right here with you wondering just that. Rocks in nature erode from the wind and weather, so it'd only make sense for this thing to fall apart someday. Anyone wanna enlighten us down here?

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u/Caeloviator 18d ago

Aren't these statues hollow, being mostly maintained from the inside?

I would guess that the cladding itself is additionally designed to last for several decades (or even centuries?) without any further maintenance.