Sadri Akhun

Sadri Akhun studied at Sverdlovsk Art School and Repin Institute of Arts. Näwfäl Ğädelef, Rada Niğmätullinä and Wasil Mälikef are recorded as having studied under Sadri Akhun. The recorded working language is Russian and Tatar. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture and visual art education. Places of work recorded in the authority are Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and Tatarstan. Employment is recorded with Qazan Art School and Russian State University named after A.N. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and People's Painter of the Republic of Tatarstan.

• Name — Sadri Akhun • Native Name — Садри Салахович Ахун Садретдин Сәлахетдин улы Ахунов • Born — 1903 • Died — 1987 or 1990 • Birthplace — Russian Empire • Place of death — Moscow, USSR • Citizenship — Russian Empire, Soviet Union • Occupation — sculptor • Awards — Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Akhun was born in 1903 to a Volga Tatar family in the Russian Empire. He attended the Sverdlovsk Art and Industry Institute and attended the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts in Leningrad from 1927 until he graduated in 1931. He became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR in 1936. From 1940 to 1950 he was the chairman of the Union of Artists of the Tatar ASSR. His works were displayed at many exhibitions not only in the Tatar ASSR but throughout the Soviet Union. His artworks include the decorative fountain "Labor will be the ruler of the world" in Kazan, a monument to the famous Tatar poet Ğabdulla Tuqay that he worked on with Lev Kerbel, a portrait-bust of Musa Jalil in 1957, and a sculpture of flying ace Amet-khan Sultan that was installed on his grave in Novodevichy Cemetery in 1947. He died in 1987, or according to other sources, 1990.