Zair Azgur
Zair Isaakovich Azgur (January 15, 1908 – February 18, 1995) was a Soviet and Belarusian sculptor active during the Soviet period. Zair Azgur was born in Mogilev Governorate (now in Vitebsk Region, Belarus), he studied in that city from 1922 to 1925; from 1925 until 1928 he studied at the Vkhutein in Leningrad. He first exhibited in 1923.
Also recorded as Zair Isaakovich Azgur · Zair Azhur
Zair Azgur
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- Born
- 1908
- Died
- 1995
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic · Soviet Union · Belarus
- Occupation
- sculptor · painter · politician
- Fields
- art of sculpture
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Zair Isaakovich Azgur (January 15, 1908 – February 18, 1995) was a Soviet and Belarusian sculptor active during the Soviet period. Zair Azgur was born in Mogilev Governorate (now in Vitebsk Region, Belarus), he studied in that city from 1922 to 1925; from 1925 until 1928 he studied at the Vkhutein in Leningrad. He first exhibited in 1923.
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Recorded positions include member of the Council of the Republic of Belarus, member of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR, member of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR of the 5th convocation, list of members of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (1962–1966) and list of members of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian SSR (1971–1974). He belonged to Artists' Union of the USSR.
Надгробный памятник Героя Социалистического Труда Анатолия Евгеньевича Андреева на Восточном кладбище в Минске.
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1908
Zair Azgur born at Zastadollie.
1954
Victory Monument, Minsk is dated 1954.
1995
Zair Azgur died at Minsk.
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Zair Azgur received Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Order of Lenin, Hero of Socialist Labour, Order of the Red Star, Order of the October Revolution and People's Painter of the USSR.
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He was mainly active in Minsk, where among his projects was the creation of reliefs for the opera house. He created a series of portrait busts of war heroes and military figures during the 1940s. At the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels he won a silver medal for his statue of Rabindranath Tagore. Monuments to his design were erected at Luhansk in 1947; Minsk in 1947; Borodino in 1949; Suzdal in 1950; and Leninogorsk - a monument to Vladimir Lenin - in 1957. Later in his career he exhibited in Bucharest and Paris. Azgur's home and studio in Minsk is now a museum. Azgur is the uncle of Jewish Belarusian partisan Masha Bruskina, publicly hanged by the Nazis in October 1941 in Minsk. Soon after the war, he immediately recognized Masha in the dreadful photographs exposed as he was visiting the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War. First claiming her identity, but then he retraced his steps.
• Hero of Socialist Labour • Two Orders of Lenin • Order of the October Revolution • Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour • Order of the Red Star • Order of Friendship of Peoples • Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" • Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" • Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class • Medal "Veteran of Labour" • Two Stalin Prizes • Title of People's Artist of the USSR (visual arts)
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Zair Azgur studied at Vitebsk People's Art School, Repin Institute of Arts, National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture and Vkhutein. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
The authorities additionally record the headings Zair Isaakovich Azgur and Zair Azhur. His recorded language was Belarusian. He married Galina Azgur. Recorded as Russian Empire, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union and Belarus.
Identity and origins
Victory Monument, Minsk
1954
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