“Worker and Collective Farm Woman” is a monument of monumental art, “an ideal and symbol of the Soviet era,” a recognized “standard of socialist realism.” It is a sculptural group of two figures, male and female, who are directed forward and raise a hammer and sickle above their heads. The concept and compositional plan belong to the architect Boris Iofan, the author of the plastic embodiment is Vera Mukhina. The monument was intended for the USSR pavilion at the international exhibition in Paris in 1937; it was designed and assembled in Moscow, then divided into 65 parts and transported to France, where installation was carried out a second time. The sculpture was made of stainless chromium-nickel steel, a lining of 0.5 mm thick sheets was attached to the internal frame, the total mass of the monument exceeded 63 tons