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Vera Mukhina's giant statue "The Worker and The Collective Farm Girl" caused a sensation in 1937 when it topped the Soviet pavilion at the International Exhibition in Paris; it later became the symbol of the country's largest movie studio, Mosfilm. In 2003, the corroded statue was taken down section by section from its pedestal near the All-Russian Exhibition Center and handed over to restorers. After restoration, it will stand on top of a shopping mall to be built near the exhibition center. At the moment, the severed heads are still in the workshop. Photograph by Igor Tabakov.

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