The sculptural group of two figures, who raised over the heads of the hammer and sickle is made of stainless chromium-nickel steel. Its height from bottom to top crescent is 24m. The growth of the working is 17,25m, the growth of collective farmers - 10m. Total weight - 80 tons.
The famous sculpture, named in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, "the standard of socialist realism," was made in the years 1935-1937 for the Soviet pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris, which opened there in May 25, 1937. She was created by the famous Soviet sculptor Vera Mukhina and architect Boris Iofan. The sculptural group of two figures, who raised over the heads of the hammer and sickle is made of stainless chromium-nickel steel. Its height from bottom to top crescent is 24m. The growth of the working is 17,25m, the growth of collective farmers - 10m. Total weight - 80 tons.
In 1937 the monument was moved from Moscow to Paris for the World's Fair. In order to remove from the Union and bring in a tunnel in Paris, and then re-install at home a 24-meter figure had cut and welded frame in place. The sculpture is brought to Paris to take it apart in 65 pieces and fit the parts in 28 wagons. To build on the spot in Paris went to the chief engineers, fitters, machinists, welders and tinsmiths. Then they hired the French workers. Eleven days out on the assembly - and already in May 1, 1937 statue was collected. They hoisted the sculpture pavilion in the Soviet Union just across the German pavilion of the Nazi eagle on top.
After the exhibition of sculpture planned to melt down, but she really liked the French, the Parisians even wanted to leave her at home.
From Paris, the sculpture was returned to 44 parts dismembered. In the carriage it was damaged. For eight months (January - August 1939) in Moscow sculpture was reconstructed and mounted on a pedestal in front of the entrance to the Northern Agricultural Exhibition (now REC).
The sculpture was not just pride of the country. In 1947 "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" became the trademark of national cinema - a symbol of the film studio "Mosfilm". With her image on the background of the Kremlin's Spassky Tower began in 1947, Grigory Alexandrov film "Spring". In July 1948, the Ministry of Cinematography has approved the emblem of "Mosfilm" officially. In accordance with Russian law "Mosfilm" made a re-brand as a legally protected trademark for a period up to 2009. On the mark "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" began with films like "The Cranes Are Flying," "Ballad of a Soldier", "Andrei Rublev", "Kalina Krasnaya" and hundreds of other paintings, constituting the worldwide fame of national cinema. The entire cinematic world has become associate this image with a name like "Mosfilm", and with the great names of Russian masters of cinema. A very sculptural group is now carefully preserved with a special on "Mosfilm".
In 1979, the sculpture was restored. In the perestroika years, the idea to establish a monument on the arrow Big Stone Island, between the "drummer" and the Crimean bridge, but this place was occupied by Peter I of Zurab Tsereteli. A little later lawyer Anatoly Kucherena contacted the Office of Protection of Monuments of architecture of Moscow with a request to sell to an American firm "Worker and Collective Farm Girl". They refused, deciding that the money for the restoration, sooner or later there will be and Russia.