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"Motherland Calls!" is a sculpture that forms the centerpiece of the Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad monument on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd. It was erected in memory of the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II. The sculpture was created by the sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich and the engineer Nikolai Nikitin. The sculpture depicts a woman in flowing robes, holding a sword raised towards the sky in her right hand. The height from the base to the tip of the sword is 85 meters, and together with the pedestal that is embedded in the hill, it is almost 100 meters. The monument weighs 8,000 tons, and the sword weighs 14 tons. In 2008, the sculpture was recognized as one of the Seven Wonders of Russia. In 2025, Motherland became the main symbol of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.