Zair Azgur

He was mainly active in Minsk, where among his projects was the creation of reliefs for the opera house.

He created a series of portrait busts of war heroes and military figures during the 1940s.

At the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels he won a silver medal for his statue of Rabindranath Tagore.

Azgur is the uncle of Jewish Belarusian partisan Masha Bruskina, publicly hanged by the Nazis in october 1941 in Minsk.

Soon after the war, he immediately recognized Masha in the dreadful photographs exposed as he was visiting the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War.