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Popularly known as the Mother Motherland Monument, the Rodina Mat situated in Kiev happens to be a part of the Museum of the Great Patriotic War. The statue measures 203 feet in length and weighs almost 450 tons. Constructed using titanium, the monument stands at the top of the museum, making the whole structure around 334 feet tall. The statue holds a nine-ton, fifty-two foot long sword in its right hand as well as shield measuring thirteen by twenty-six feet and weighing thirteen tons, which bears the Coat of Arms of the Soviet Union in its left hand. Unveiled in the year 1981, the statue was the first of its size to be erected in the Soviet Union.