Soviet-Jewish sculptor Lev Kerbel (1917 - 2003) with fellow Soviet sculptor Vladimir Tsigal (1917 - 2013), 1945

Kerbel is known for several works, among them the Karl Marx bust in Chemnitz, Germany, and the Lenin monument in Havana, Cuba. Tsigal served as a military artist in the navy and later created the monument to D.M. Karbyshev at the site of the former Mauthausen concentration camp. The two created several monuments to the Red Army together in the post-war period.