Vasyl Borodai
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| Native name | Василь Захарович Бородай |
| Born | Vasyl Zakharovych Borodai 18 August 1917 Yekaterinoslav, Russian Republic |
| Died | 19 April 2010 (aged 92) Kiev, Ukraine |
| Occupation | Sculptor |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Notable awards | Shevchenko Prize (1968) |
Vasyl Zakharovych Borodai (Ukrainian: Василь Захарович Бородай; 18 August 1917, Yekaterinoslav – 19 April 2010, Kyiv) was a Soviet and Ukrainian sculptor, parliamentary, People's Painter of the USSR, academician of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union and Ukraine.
He was a World War II veteran. While studying in Kyiv Arts Institute in 1947–53, Borodai was a student of Ukrainian sculptor .
Borodai was a guardian of another Ukrainian sculptor Alexander Kostetsky who early lost his father.
Gallery[]
Monument to Lesya Ukrainka (1965)
Monument to the Founders of Kyiv (1982)
"And Mother awaits..." (Kyiv Oblast)
External links[]
- Vasyl Borodai in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
- Tkachova, L.I. Borodai Vasyl Zakharovych (БОРОДАЙ ВАСИЛЬ ЗАХАРОВИЧ). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.
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Categories:
- 1917 births
- 2010 deaths
- 20th-century Ukrainian educators
- 20th-century Ukrainian sculptors
- Artists from Dnipro
- People from Yekaterinoslavsky Uyezd
- Full Members of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts
- Full Members of the USSR Academy of Arts
- National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture alumni
- National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture faculty
- Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- Tenth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
- People's Artists of the USSR (visual arts)
- Lenin Prize winners
- Recipients of the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples
- Recipients of the Order of Lenin
- Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
- Recipients of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
- Recipients of the Shevchenko National Prize
- Ukrainian educational theorists
- Ukrainian male sculptors
- Soviet educators
- Soviet sculptors
- Soviet military personnel of World War II
- World War II spies for the Soviet Union
- Burials at Baikove Cemetery