Zair Azgur

Zair Isaakovich Azgur (1908-1995) was a Belarusian sculptor active during the Soviet period. Born in Mogilev Governorate (now in Vitebsk Region, Belarus), he studied in that city from 1922 to 1925; from 1925 until 1928 he studied at the Vkhutein in Leningrad. He first exhibited in 1923. He was mainly active in Minsk, where among his projects was the creation of reliefs for the opera house. He created a series of portrait busts of war heroes and military figures during the 1940s. At the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels he won a silver medal for his statue of Rabindranath Tagore. Monuments to his design were erected at Lugansk in 1947; Minsk in 1947; Borodino in 1949; Suzdal in 1950; and Leninogorsk - a monument to Vladimir Lenin - in 1957. Later in his career he exhibited in Bucharest and Paris.

Azgur's home and studio in Minsk is now a museum.

Honours and awards

Hero of Socialist Labour
Two Orders of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Two Orders of the Red Banner of Labour
Order of the Red Star
Order of Friendship of Peoples
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class
Medal "Veteran of Labour"
Two State Prizes of the USSR
Title of People's Artist of the USSR

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References

John Milner. A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420 - 1970. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Antique Collectors' Club, 1993
Overview of the museum

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