Dunyo bolalari, Historic site in northern Moscow, Russia.
Dunyo bolalari is a bronze sculpture in Moscow's Friendship Park, near the Rechnoy Vokzal metro station. It depicts three figures: a mother, a father holding a baby, and a teenager. The abstract work stands on a stepped pedestal designed by architects I. N. Voskresensky and Yu. V. Kalmykov.
The bronze sculpture was made by Finnish sculptor Antti Neuvonen, born in 1937 in Saari, then part of the Vyborg Governorate. In 1984 Moscow and Helsinki agreed to exchange sculptures for the 30th anniversary of their friendly relations. Helsinki gave this work in 1990 in return for Oleg Kiryukhin's 'Peace to the World', donated by Moscow and unveiled in Helsinki on 14 January 1990. It is a modified partial copy of Neuvonen's 1983 'Monument to the Friendship of Peoples'.
The bronze sculpture was a reciprocal gift: Helsinki donated it in 1990 after Moscow gave Oleg Kiryukhin's "World Peace" to Helsinki on 14 January 1990. The work is a modified partial copy of Antti Neuvonen's 1983 monument "Friendship of Peoples", which depicts villagers meeting their liberators.
The sculpture stands in Friendship Park by the Leningradskoye Highway entrance, next to Rechnoy Vokzal metro station. It is an outdoor monument with no opening hours or tickets, so it can be seen at any time. The bronze figures sit on a stepped pedestal, and the former plaque is no longer in place.
The sculpture is a modified partial copy of Neuvonen's 1983 monument Friendship of Peoples, which depicts villagers meeting their liberators. The bronze has an unusual texture, and a plaque once stood on the stepped pedestal designed by architects I. N. Voskresensky and Yu. V. Kalmykov.
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