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Artist: Yang Lidong

Museum: Tottori Sand Museum (Tottori, Japan)

Technique: Sculpture

With its large territory, Russia is also home to various different ethnicities. The Russian population of 140 million people consists of slavic Russians and Ukrainians as well as non-slavic ethnicities such as Tatars. Russia can therefore be called a multiethnic country. Matryoshkas such as depicted at the front of this sculpture became widely known as a result of the Paris World