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Vasyl Zakharovych Borodai (Ukrainian: Василь Захарович Бородай; 18 August 1917, Yekaterinoslav – 19 April 2010, Kyiv) was a Soviet and Ukrainian sculptor, parliamentary, People's Painter of the USSR, academician of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union and Ukraine.

Vasyl Borodai
Native name	Василь Захарович Бородай
Born	Vasyl Zakharovych Borodai (1917-08-18)18 August 1917 Yekaterinoslav, Ukrainian People's Republic
Died	19 April 2010(2010-04-19) (aged 92) Kyiv, Ukraine
Occupation	Sculptor
Nationality	Ukrainian
Notable awards	Shevchenko Prize (1968)

He was a World War II veteran. While studying in Kyiv Arts Institute in 1947–53, Borodai was a student of Ukrainian sculptor Mykhailo Lysenko.

Borodai was a guardian of another Ukrainian sculptor Alexander Kostetsky who early lost his father.

Gallery

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  Monument of the Great October Revolution (1977)
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  Motherland Monument, Kyiv (1981)

External links

• Vasyl Borodai in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia
• Tkachova, L.I. Borodai Vasyl Zakharovych (БОРОДАЙ ВАСИЛЬ ЗАХАРОВИЧ). Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine.

Cultural offices
Preceded by Vasyl Kasiyan	Head of the National society of painters of Ukraine 1968–1982	Succeeded by Oleksandr Skoblikov

На других языках

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- [en] Vasyl Borodai

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[ru] Бородай, Василий Захарович

Васи́лий Заха́рович Борода́й (укр. Василь Захарович Бородай; 18 августа 1917, Екатеринослав, Российская империя — 19 апреля 2010, Киев, Украина) — советский, украинский скульптор , педагог. Народный художник СССР (1977). Лауреат Ленинской премии (1984).

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