Azgur, Zaire Isaakovich

Born on January 2 (15), 1908 in a Jewish family in a Jewish family in the village of Molchany, Senno district, Mogilev province (now part of the village of Zastadolie, Senno district of Vitebsk region ). He graduated from the Vitebsk Art and Practice Institute in 1925, studied with Yudel Pan and Mikhail Kerzin . In 1925-1928 he studied at the Higher Artistic and Technical Institute in Leningrad , KGHI in Kiev and the Tbilisi Academy of Arts (1928-1929). People's Artist of the BSSR (Certificate No. 1, 1944 ) In 1945, he married Galina Gorelova, daughter of academician Gavriil Gorelov . Full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1958). Since 1980, the head of the creative workshop of the USSR Academy of Arts (sculpture department) in Minsk.

Member of the Supreme Council of the BSSR in 1947-1967 and since 1971.

He died on February 18, 1995 in Minsk . He was buried in the Eastern cemetery .

• Hero of Socialist Labor (1978)
• two orders of Lenin (1955, 1978)
• Order of the October Revolution (1971)
• two orders of the Red Banner of Labor (1940, 1949)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (12.31.1987)
• Order of the Red Star (1943)
• Medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" I degree (1948)
• medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1946)
• Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" (1945)
• Veteran of Labor medal (1982)
• Francis Scorina Medal (1992)
• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1946) - for sculptural portraits of twice Heroes of the Soviet Union A.I. Rodimtsev, A.I. Molodch and Hero of the Soviet Union M.F. Silnitsky (1943)
• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1948) - for the sculptural portrait of F.E. Dzerzhinsky (1947)
• Silver Medal of the World Exhibition in Brussels (1958)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1973)
• People's Artist of the BSSR (1944)
• Honored Artist of the BSSR (1939)

By the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 10 of January 4, 1996 "On perpetuating the memory of the People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor Z. I. Azgur" it was decided:

• create a memorial museum on the basis of the sculptor’s creative workshop (open to the public on February 18, 2000);
• to erect a monument on the grave of the sculptor in the Eastern cemetery of Minsk;
• to give the name of Z. I. Azgur to secondary school No. 1 of Senno;
• give the name of Z. I. Azgur to one of the streets of Senno;
• to install a memorial plaque on the building of the former Vitebsk Art College, where Z. I. Azgur studied, in Vitebsk (3 Suvorova Street). The street in Minsk, where Zair Isaakovich’s creative workshop was located (Traktornaya St.), was renamed Z. I. Azgur street. On the 100th anniversary of Z. I. Azgur’s memorial plaque in Minsk was erected in 2008, in the house where the sculptor lived (Minsk, Independence Avenue, 13) and the NBRB issued a commemorative coin.

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  Grave of Azgur in the Eastern cemetery of Minsk.

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  Memorial plaque, Minsk, Independence Avenue, 13

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  Commemorative coin of the NBRB dedicated to Z. Azgur, 2008

The artist’s works are in the collections of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus , the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War , the Memorial Museum-Workshop of Z. I. Azgur ( Minsk , Republic of Belarus ), the State Tretyakov Gallery ( Moscow , Russian Federation ), the Astrakhan Regional Art Gallery ( Astrakhan , Russian Federation ), Moldavian Art Museum ( Chisinau , Moldova ), etc.

Z. I. Azgur is the author of articles on the problems of fine art and memoirs. Among his published works

• Unforgettable ( Belor. Unforgettable ) (1962)
• What I remember ...: A story about time, about art and about people ... ( Belorussian. That, who remembers ...) (Prince 1-2, 1977-1983)
• "Chinese writer Lu Xin " (1953-1954) ^[1]

Sculpture

• monumental portraits
  • Felix Dzerzhinsky (1947, State Tretyakov Gallery )
  • Joseph Langbard
  • Alexander Molodchiy (1943, State Tretyakov Gallery )
  • Mikhail Silnitsky (1943, State Tretyakov Gallery )
  • Alexander Rodimtsev (1943, State Tretyakov Gallery )
  • Dmitry Pozharsky
  • Lu Xin (1953-1954, Tretyakov Gallery )
  • Rabindranath Tagore (1958, Tretyakov Gallery)
  • Peter Bagration (monument-bust, 1946-1949, Borodino, Moscow region), Russian general
  • Yanka Kupala (monument-bust, 1947-1949, Vyazynka, Minsk Region, Belarus), Belarusian writer, poet and public figure ^[2]
  • Monument to Eugene Vuchetich (1981)
• monuments
  • Joseph Stalin (1952, Minsk )
  • Alexander Butlerov (1953, Moscow)
  • Alexander Pushkin (1956, Astrakhan )
  • The ensemble on the square named after Yakub Kolas (1972, Minsk )
  • V.I. Lenin
    • 1957, Vladikavkaz
    • 1960, Makhachkala
    • 1960, Pushkin
    • 1980, Minsk
  • Karl Marx (1980, Minsk )
  • Peter Masherov (1981, Vitebsk )
  • Sergey Gritsevets (Minsk)
  • Vasily Talash ( Petrikov )
  • Peter Bagration ( Volkovysk )

Among easel works, the semi-figure of the Belarusian Latin poet Mikola Gusovsky (1980) stands out.

• Memorial Museum-Workshop Z.I. Azgoura

• Belarus: Encyclopedic Reference = Belarus: Etsyklapedychny davednik / Redkal .: B. І. Sachanka і інш. - Mn. : BelEn, 1995 .-- 800 p. - 5,000 copies. - ISBN 985-11-0026-9 . (In Belorussian)
• Small Soviet Encyclopedia. T. 1. A - Bukovina / Redkoll: B. A. Vvedensky (Ch. Ed.) And others. - 3. - M .: TSB. - T. 1. - 250,000 copies.
• Belorussian SSR: A Brief Encyclopedia of 5 volumes / Ed. Coll .: P.U. Brovka et al. - Mn. : Ch. ed. Byelorussian. Owls Encyclopedias, 1981. - T. 5. Biographical reference book. - 740 s. - 50,000 copies.

Azgur, Zaire Isaakovich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• Zair Isaakovich Azgur in the database “History of Belarusian Science in Persons” of the Central Scientific Library named after Y. Kolas NAS of Belarus
• Azgur Museum in Minsk
• Zaire Azgur (inaccessible link)
• Exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the famous sculptor Zaire Azgur at the National Library (inaccessible link)
• National Bank introduces commemorative coins dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Zaire Azgur
• The exhibition-installation “Portrait on the background of the workshop” opens on March 18 at the Zaire Azgur Memorial Museum-Workshop (inaccessible link)
• Site of the Z. I. Azgur Memorial Museum-Workshop