Vasyl Borodai
Vasyl Zakharovych Borodai (; 18 August 1917, Yekaterinoslav – 19 April 2010, Kyiv) was a Soviet and Ukrainian sculptor, parliamentary, People's Painter of the USSR, academician of the Academy of Arts of the Soviet Union and Ukraine. He was a World War II veteran. While studying in Kyiv Arts Institute in 1947–53, Borodai was a student of Ukrainian sculptor Mykhailo Lysenko. Borodai was a guardian of another Ukrainian sculptor Alexander Kostetsky who early lost his father.