Pyotr Vladimiroviç Sabsay

Place: Odessa

Born: 1893

Death: 1980

Biography:

Pinkhos Sabsay was a Soviet sculptor and member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. He specialized in portrait and monumental bas-relief sculptures, teaching at the Azerbaijan State Art School. Sabsay received the Stalin Prize of the first degree for his monument to Sergei Kirov in Baku. Other notable works include monuments to V.I.Lenin in Krasnodar and Baku, as well as a sculptural portrait of Alexander Pushkin titled 'Elegy'. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1973.