Real name: Лев Ефимович Кербель

(October 25 (November 7), 1917 - August 14, 2003, Moscow)
Soviet and Russian sculptor, teacher, professor. Vice President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR from 1988 to 2003. Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1975, Corresponding Member of 1962). People's Artist of the USSR (1977). Hero of Socialist Labor (1985). Winner of the Lenin Prize (1961) and the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1950). Member of the CPSU since 1963.