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Sergei Mikhailovich Orlov (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Орлов; 14 September 1911 – 18 November 1971) was a Soviet painter, ceramicist and sculptor specializing in depicting Russian historical figures.

Orlov worked in ceramics and porcelain for decades until his first large-scale commission, the 1954 equestrian statue of Yuri Dolgorukiy on Tverskaya Street, which he won by competition. Other work includes the 1955 monument to Russian explorer Afanasy Nikitin in his medieval home of Tver, a group called "Belorussian Partisan" in a passage in the Belorusskaya (Koltsevaya line) station of the Moscow Metro, and work on the Main Gate of the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy.

Sources

1. "September". Russian Life. 44. Rich Frontier Publishing Company: 16. 2001.
2. Cullerne Bown, Matthew (1991). Art Under Stalin. Phaidon. p. 246. ISBN 9780714826059.
3. "Founder of Moscow". USSR Information Bulletin. 7. Embassy of the USSR. 1947.
4. "Science in Russia". Science in Russia (5–6). Nauka Publishers: 76. 2008. Archived from the original on 19 June 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2023.

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• Photo of Orlov working on the Nikitin monument

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