Andrey Kovalchuk

Who is Andrey Kovalchuk?

Andrey Nikolayevich Kovalchuk was born in 1959. He holds the title of People’s Artist of the Russian Federation and is the winner of the Moscow City Hall Prize for Literature and the Arts and the Russian Federation Government Prize for Culture.

Kovalchuks works embody his deep interest in Russian history. Among his many sculptural compositions are monuments to Peter the Great in Astrakhan, Admiral Fyodor Ushakov in Moscow, and the outstanding poet and diplomat Fyodor Tyutchev in Bryansk and Munich.

Kovalchuk commemorated the feats of soldiers in the German-Soviet War in a multi-figure composition, "Soldier-Road Workers" in Moscow Region. His memorial "To the Victims of Chernobyl" is charged with emotion.

One of the sculptors most recent works, a monument to the pilots of the Normandy-Neman Squadron, was unveiled in October 2007 by the Presidents of Russia and France.

Kovalchuk's compositions are distinguished by their strong sense of proportion, vividness of image and the accuracy with which they capture the subject's psychological characteristics.