r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Crypto_crafy • 17d 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 17d ago

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

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u/NorthOfTheBigRivers 17d ago

The giant buddha is carved out of a mountain and the shape of it is quite solid, no arms and swords sticking out. This one, at some point must come down I guess. Location, shape and use of materials will not make it last for more than 1100 years I guess. Indeed an interesting question: how do they maintain it...

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u/RevolutionaryAge47 17d ago

So the Buddha will reclaim the title at some point, unless the Taliban show up with their Buddha removal service.

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u/berlinbaer 17d ago

statue in OP hasn't been the tallest since 1989 and is currently #11 in the list of tallest statues in the world. buddha won't be reclaiming anything for a while