Girl with an Oar

The Girl with an Oar (Russian: Девушка с веслом) is an archetypal example of Socialist Realism in outdoors architecture of the Soviet Union.

Numerous gypsum alabaster versions authored by Ivan Shadr and Romuald Iodko adorned Soviet parks of culture and recreation, and young pioneer camps.

[1] Seen as a symbol of Soviet park sculpture style today, it was part of the monumental propaganda of sports, a model of a healthy person, ubiquitous in Soviet arts of late 1920s–1930s.

The popular stereotype of the Girl with an Oar is the one in a swimsuit, created by Romuald Iodko.

[2][1] In 2011 the reconstructed naked version of the sculpture was reinstalled in Gorky Park.