Alexander Mikhailovich Opekushin (November 28, 1838 - March 4, 1923) was s Russian

Russians

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 sculptor. Among his works are part of the sculptures of the Millennium of Russia

Millennium of Russia

The Millennium of Russia is a famous bronze monument in the Novgorod Kremlin. It was erected in 1862 to celebrate the millennium of Rurik's arrival to Novgorod, an event traditionally taken as a starting point of Russian history.A competition to design the monument was held in 1859...

 monument in Velikiy Novgorod (1862), the monument to Alexander Pushkin in Moscow

Moscow

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 (1880), the monument to Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest...

 in Pyatigorsk

Pyatigorsk

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 (1889), the monument to Alexander II

Monument to Alexander II (Moscow)

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 in Moscow (1898, destroyed in 1918, rebuilt in 2005), the monument to Alexander III

Alexander III of Russia

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 in Moscow (1912, did not survive).

The asteroid 5055 Opekushin

5055 Opekushin

5055 Opekushin is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on August 13, 1986 by Lyudmila Chernykh at Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named after a Russian sculptor Alexander Opekushin.- External links :*...

discovered in 1986 was named after him.