I must admit I have no idea who the guy is.
Why are they putting this thing in Bayonne, New Jersey, anyone know? Seems a bit like shunting it off to a distant location. Considering the fact that we haven't gotten our act together on a memorial yet, one would hope this gift could be given more prominence.
He made the Stalin (at Yalta) monument that no one wants. He made the 3 story Peter the Great cement monument in Moscow (on the river) which was originally meant to be Columbus for Columbus, Ga, USA. They looked at it said hell no, so he chopped off the head and replaced it with Peter's and sold it to Luzkov (what the hell was Luzkov on when he bought that?). He's building a giant stone henge in Georgia, north of Tbilisi, equally scary.