Background
AZGUR, Zair was born in 1908 in village Molchany, Belarusian.
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Zair Isaakovich Azgur
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Zair Isaakovich Azgur was a Belarusian sculptor. He was mainly active in Minsk, where among his projects was the creation of reliefs for the opera house. Popular Artist of Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic since 1944; full member, USSR Academy, of Arts, since 1958. two Stalin Prizes, 1946, 1948; Order of Lenin. Member, Communist Party, since 1943.
Education
graduated Vitebsk Technicum; 1926-1929 studied at Leningrad Acad, of Arts, then at Kiev Art Institute
Career
He first exhibited in 1923. In 1930's helped decorate Belarusian Government House in Minsk. Sculpted several motifs for Belarusian Pavilion at Moscow AllUnion Agriculture Exhibition. Deputy, Belarusian Supreme Soviet of 1959 convocation. 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 work.
Monuments to his design were erected at Lugansk in 1947; Minsk in 1947; Borodino in 1949; Suzdal in 1950; and Leninogorsk (a monument to Vladimir Lenin) in 1957. Later he exhibited also in Bucharest and Paris.
Azgur devoted much of his time to public activities and to literary work.
Achievements
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In 1940 was admitted to the BSSR Artists Union.
In 1978, Azgur became Hero of Socialist Labour.
For nearly ten years, starting from 1981, he directed the work of a creative studio at the Academy of Arts in Minsk.
Azgur’s works were displayed at numerous exhibitions all over the world, though his first trip abroad was only in 1956.
His home and studio in Minsk is now a museum.
Politics
Member, Communist Party, since 1943.
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Born
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February 18, 1995 (aged 87) -
Nationality
USSR
Education
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1926 - 1929
Career
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1981 - 1991
Awards
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Stalin Prize
Twice, in 1946 and in 1948, Z.Azgur was awarded with the Stalin Prize for portraits of Heroes of the Soviet Union Molodchy, Rodimtsev and Smoliachkov, bust of F.Dzerzhinski.Twice, in 1946 and in 1948, Z.Azgur was awarded with the Stalin Prize for portraits of Heroes of the Soviet Union Molodchy, Rodimtsev and Smoliachkov, bust of F.Dzerzhinski.