Career
His last work was the Cross of Sorrow, a memorial dedicated to Soviet and Finnish soldiers perished in the Winter War of 1939-1940. 2006: Karelian State Prize in Arts (posthumously).
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Leo Lankinen
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2006: Karelian State Prize in Arts (posthumously) Ilya Repin State Prize 1986: Full member of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Arts 1968: People"s Artist of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 1967: Gold Medal of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Arts, for the cycle "Мой современник" of portraits (<Сиркка>, <Спортсмен Миша Попов>, <Комсомолка 30-х годов>, <Помор>, <Тойво Антикайнен>) 1959: Meritorious Artist of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The house in Petrozavodsk where he lived during 1960-1996 ( №16, ул Куйбышева) bears a memorial plaque dedicated to him. In 2003 a collection Скульптор Лео Ланкинен was published, of memoirs of Zurab Tsereteli, Tair Salakhov, philologist Eino Karhu, sculptor Boris Plenkin, and others about the sculptor.
Membership
1986: Full member of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Arts.
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December 17, 1996 (aged 70) -
Nationality
Russia Soviet Union