Leo Lankinen


Leo Lankinen was a Karelian sculptor and painter.
His last work was the Cross of Sorrow, a memorial dedicated to Soviet and Finnish soldiers perished in the Winter War of 1939-1940.

Awards and recognition

The house in Petrozavodsk where he lived during 1960-1996 bears a memorial plaque dedicated to him.
In 2003 a collection Скульптор Лео Ланкинен was published, of memoirs of Zurab Tsereteli, Tair Salakhov, philologist, sculptor, and others about the sculptor.