Mother Motherland (Russian: Родина-мать, Rodina-mat’), also translated as Mother Homeland, a poetic appellation to Motherland, is the name of several monuments in various cities of the former Soviet Union. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Motherland is a term that may refer to a mother country, ie the place of one's birth the place of origin of an Ethnic group or Immigrant, or a Metropole The post-Soviet states, also commonly known as former Soviet republics, are the 15 independent nations that split off from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- "Mother Motherland Is Calling" a statue on the Mamayev Kurgan commemorating the Battle of Stalingrad in Russia
- Mother Motherland (Kiev), a statue at the memorial of World War II in Kiev, Ukraine. The Motherland Calls, (Родина-мать зовёт! "Rodina Mat' Zovyot!" also called Mother Motherland, Mother Motherland Is Calling, or simply Mamayev Kurgan (Мамаев Курган is a dominant height overlooking the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad in southern Russia. The Battle of Stalingrad is a commonly used name in English sources for several large operations by Germany and its allies and Soviet forces conducted with the The National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 years (Національний музей історії Великої Вітчизняної Війни
- Mother Motherland (Saint Petersburg), a statue at the memorial of the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery of St. Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery (Пискарёвское мемориа́льное кла́дбище is located in Saint Petersburg, at the Avenue of the Unvanquished (Проспект Petersburg
- The monument "Mother Russia" in Kaliningrad (1974) is often erroneously referred to as "Rodina-Mat". Kaliningrad (Калининград is a Seaport and the administrative center of Kaliningrad Oblast, the Russian Exclave between Poland
- "Mother Motherland Mourning over Her Perished Sons" (Родина-мать, скорбящая о погибших сыновьях), Minsk, commemorating the perished in Afghanistan, part of the Island of Tears memorial complex
- "Mother Motherland (Naberezhnye Chelny) ", a monument {Родина-мать, 1975) in Naberezhnye Chelny, by Ildar Khanov [1](Ильдар Ханов)
- "Mother Motherland (Pavlovsk)", a memorial complex, Pavlovsk, Russia. Minsk (Мінск mʲinsk Минск mʲinsk is the Capital and largest city in Belarus, situated on the Svislach and Niamiha rivers The Soviet war in Afghanistan, also known as the Soviet-Afghan War or just the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, was a nine-year conflict involving Naberezhnye Chelny (На́бережные Челны́ Яр Чаллы|Yar Çallı Russian lit Pavlovsk (Па́вловск is a town situated in Russia, 30 km from and under jurisdiction of Saint Petersburg, just to the south of Tsarskoye Selo [2]
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