Halyna Kaltschenko

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
	Галина Никифорівна Кальченко
Transl. :	Halyna Nykyforivna Kal'čenko
Transcr. :	Halyna Nykyforivna Kaltschenko
Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Галина Никифоровна Кальченко
Transl .:	Galina Nikiforovna Kal'čenko
Transcr .:	Galina Nikiforovna Kaltschenko

Baikowe Cemetery in Kiev. On the left the grave with the bust of Halyna Kaltschenko, on the right the grave of her parents

Halyna Nykyforiwna Kaltschenko (born February 4, 1926 in Borsna , Ukrainian SSR , † March 11, 1975 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian sculptor.

Life

Halyna Kaltschenko was born as the daughter of the Ukrainian- Soviet politician Nykyfor Kaltschenko in Borsna, a small town in what is now Chernihiv Oblast . She studied with Mychajlo Lyssenko (1906–1972) at the Institute of Fine Arts in Kiev until 1953 .

Kaltschenko created numerous busts and monuments, many of which can be found in galleries, painting collections and museums such as the National Taras Shevchenko Museum and the Lesja Ukrajinka Museum in Kiev.

Halyna Kaltschenko was the model for the colossal Mother-Homeland statue in Kiev designed by the sculptor Wassyl Borodaj (1917-2010) and inaugurated in 1981 .

She died of cancer in Kiev at the age of 49 and was buried in the Baikowe cemetery .

Honors

• 1974 Taras Shevchenko Prize
• 1967 People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Biography Halyna Kaltschenko in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on December 9, 2016 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ ^{a b} blog historian. 1981: Behind the scenes of the "Heimat" monument on bbc ukraine on May 9, 2016; accessed on December 9, 2016 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ Short biography on the website of the Baikowe cemetery; accessed on December 9, 2016 (Russian)
4. ↑ Short profile of Halyna Kaltschenko on the website of the Taras Shevchenko Prize Committee; accessed on December 9, 2016 (Ukrainian)