Sadri Akhun

Sadri Salakhovich Akhun (, ; 16 March 1903 — 21 June 1990) was a Soviet sculptor, often considered to be considered the founder of sculpture of Tatarstan. He received many honors including the honorary titles Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and Honored Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Biography Akhun was born in 1903 to a Volga Tatar family in the Russian Empire. He attended the Sverdlovsk Art and Industry Institute and attended the Institute of Proletarian Fine Arts in Leningrad from 1927 until he graduated in 1931. He became a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR in 1936. a monument to the famous Tatar poet Ğabdulla Tuqay that he worked on with Lev Kerbel, a portrait-bust of Musa Jalil in 1957,

He died in 1987, or according to other sources, 1990.

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