Soviet sculptor, muralist, teacher and professor, Real name Grishin. Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949, President, 1968- 1983). People's Artist of the USSR (1960). Hero of Socialist Labor (1970). Winner of Lenin (1972), five of Stalin (1941, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952), and the USSR State Prizes (1979). During World War II, he was in the siege of Leningrad, and was active in making camouflage works, aimed not only at defensive purposes, but also to save the cultural heritage of the besieged city. He headed a team of sculptors who worked on the relief the poster. After the war, a sculptor working in Moscow. In the late forties, he has molded and cast in bronze, carved in stone - a series of portraits and figures in the growth. In the portrait gallery, he created at the time - generals, the heroes of the Great Patriotic War I. He led team of sculptors who created monumental figures for Moscow high, worked on the design of the Moscow metro. Since 1948 he taught at the Arts Institute (rector from 1964 to 1970).
Soviet sculptor, muralist, teacher and professor, Real name Grishin. Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949, President, 1968- 1983). People's Artist of the USSR (1960). Hero of Socialist Labor (1970). Winner of Lenin (1972), five of Stalin (1941, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952), and the USSR State Prizes (1979). During World War II, he was in the siege of Leningrad, and was active in making camouflage works, aimed not only at defensive purposes, but also to save the cultural heritage of the besieged city. He headed a team of sculptors who worked on the relief the poster. After the war, a sculptor working in Moscow. In the late forties, he has molded and cast in bronze, carved in stone - a series of portraits and figures in the growth. In the portrait gallery, he created at the time - generals, the heroes of the Great Patriotic War I. He led team of sculptors who created monumental figures for Moscow high, worked on the design of the Moscow metro. Since 1948 he taught at the Arts Institute (rector from 1964 to 1970).
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