OREANDA-NEWS  On 28 October was announced, that the famous sculpture Worker and Kolkhoz Woman by Vera Mukhina located in Moscow will be placed on a specially constructed pavilion with the height of 37 m instead of the former 10m pedestal.

Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, a standard of the socialist realistic style with the height of 24.5 m, stood on a pedestal with the height of around 37 m at the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. When the sculpture was brought back to Moscow, it was placed on the 10m pedestal that, according to several experts, distorted the original proportions of the architectural composition.

“It was decided to place the sculpture on that historical height which it stood on at the fair in Paris – 37.5 m,” Valery Shevchuk, head of the cultural heritage committee of Moscow, said.

According to the official, the construction documentation for the pedestal-pavilion is currently being elaborated and scheduled to be completed by 2009. The structure is to be erected by the end of 2009. At the same time, when the base has been built, the composition will start to be assembled.

It is planned that there will be a museum and an exhibition hall inside the pavilion and the sculpture will have a special interior framework for routine maintenance and a system of elevators.