Worker and Kolkhoz Woman

Very well built.

Nice monument from Soviet time!

Sculpture looks just gorgeous.

I know - its Soviet Empire style. It should be like all totalitarian stuff bad. But it's not. This amazing sculpture is like a hymn to the power of humanity, its ability to move forward, to reach to the stars. It evokes similar emotions as the scene from Ridley Scott's movie 1492 when Gerard Depardieu jumps from the boat into the seawater. How much power! Human power! Raw masculin power! And of course the great music by Vangelis is a key component in causing this emotion. Don't have to go inside though exhibition is interesting. But look from the outside is a must when in Moscow.

The statue was created by Vera Mukhina ("the queen of Soviet sculpture") the master of socialist realistic sculpture, for the 1937 World Fair in Paris. Though it hardly consoled Mukhina, her sculpture became an official emblem of the Mosfilm cinema studio in 1947. Since then every Soviet film made by this studio is introduced by a logo of a man and woman holding a hammer and sickle. In 2003 the sculpture was cordoned off while repair works took place, and only in 2010 was it unveiled once again – and it finally got a higher pedestal (34.5 meters, 10 meters higher than the previous one), taking the total height to 58 meters: The fifth tallest statue in Russia.