Zurab Tsereteli

Zurab Tsereteli (Georgian: ????? ????????; born January 4, 1934 in Georgia) is a Georgian painter, sculptor and architect who graduated from the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi. He is best known for the statues of Columbus in Puerto Rico and Peter the Great in downtown Moscow which, at 100 and 96 meters respectively, are the second and third tallest statues in the world.

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Georgian - January 4 - 1934 - Georgia - Painter - Sculptor - Architect - Academy of Arts - Tbilisi - Columbus - Puerto Rico - Peter the Great - Moscow

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Tsereteli was appointed professor in the Russian Academy of Arts (of which he later was elected a president) and president of the Foundation for the Children's Park of Miracles in Moscow, Russia in 1988. Later he founded the Moscow International Foundation for Support to UNESCO.

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Russian Academy of Arts - Foundation for the Children's Park of Miracles - Moscow - Russia - 1988 - Moscow International Foundation for Support to UNESCO

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Tsereteli created a sculpture using sections of scrapped US Pershing and Soviet SS-20 nuclear missiles. The sculpture, entitled 'Good Defeats Evil' is on the grounds of the UN building in New York City. The sculpure is a 39 foot high, 40 ton monumental bronze statue of St George fighting the dragon of nuclear war. It was donated to the UN by the Soviet Union in 1990. Enamel pieces modeled after the sculpture are available from the Cold War Museum.

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Pershing - SS-20 - New York City

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He was elected vice-president of the Russian Academy of Creative Endeavors and the president of the International Center of Design in 1993, as well as president of the International Academy of Information Science in 1994.

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Russian Academy of Creative Endeavors - International Center of Design - 1993 - International Academy of Information Science - 1994

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