Nikolai Tomsky

Nikolai Tomsky in 1952

Nikolai Vasilyevich Tomsky (Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич То́мский; 19 December [O.S. 6 December] 1900, – 22 November 1984) was a much-decorated Soviet sculptor, designer of many well-known ceremonial monuments of the Socialist Realism era.

Lenin in East Berlin, Germany, 1970, removed 1992