List of statues of Lenin
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In the Soviet Union, many cities had monuments of Vladimir Lenin. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, many of them were broken with no permission from their authors. This happened even earlier in the European post-Communist states and in the Baltic states. However, in many of the former Soviet Republics (namely Russia, Belarus and Ukraine) many remain, and some new ones have been erected.[1]
In Ukraine Lenin monuments[2] and other Soviet-era monuments are still being removed.[3] But on the occasion of the 139th anniversary of Lenin two new Lenin monuments were erected in Luhansk Oblast.[1]
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[edit] Former Soviet Republics
- Estonia
- Jõhvi: 1953–1991, sculptors Enn Roos, Arseni Mölder, Signe Mölder.[4]
- Kohtla-Järve: 1950–1992, copy of statue in Jõhvi.
- Kallaste: 1988–19??
- Narva: 1957–1993, sculptor Olav Männi.
- Pärnu:
- 1950s–1981.
- 1981–1990, sculptor Matti Varik, a replica of a monument built in Kotka in 1979.
- Tallinn: 1950–1991, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky.
- Tartu:
- 1949–1952 sitting Lenin (ferroconcrete), sculptor Sergey Merkurov.
- 1952–1990 standing Lenin (bronze, height 3.5 m, weight 3.5 tons), sculptors August Vomm, Garibald Pommer, Ferdi Sannamaes.[4]
- Russia
- Almetyevsk a monument installed in the center of the city on Lenin Square.
- Arzamas 2 monuments in the city - the Cathedral Square and Peace Square.
- Arkhangelsk The city has several monuments. There remained only a few existing ones. Downtown on the Square. them. Lenin. This monument is the last major monument to Lenin in the Soviet Union established (installed in 1988). In Solombala on the Square. Terekhina and on the street. Gagarin in the yard.
- Astrakhan monument installed in the square to them. VI Lenin.
- Akhtubinsk a monument installed in the downtown area for them. VI Lenin.
- Balakovo, Saratov region: the city is 2 monuments
- Barnaul in 4 monuments: three on the main avenue (square October, pl. Soviets intersection with the street. Anatolia), and one in Upland Park. Because of the drapery which is present in the composition of the monument near the street. Anatoly, a guide to Russian British publisher Lonely Planet has called the monument "Lenin Toreador"
- Belgorod 4 monuments in the city - the Cathedral Square (the former Revolution Square), in the Park. Lenin, near the now-current cinema "Falcon" and a bust in the Belgorod Dairy Plant (BMP).
- Berezniki Lenin Square (about Palace of Culture. Lenin).
- Bogoroditsk The city has a monument to the city center.
- Boksitogorsk The city has a monument in the central square (Lenin Square).
- Dubna (25 m, the second tallest; 15 m statue on a 10 m pedestal)
- Gelendzhik Lenin monument near the boarding house "Caucasus", st. Mayachnaya.
- The working village Settlement on Lenin Street has a monument to Lenin, set in contemporary Russia (established November 7, 2006). Sculptor - V. Fetisov.
- Dedovsk A small monument is located opposite the branch of RSCU in the street of Gagarin.
- Dzerzhinsk Located on Lenin Square. The authors of the improvement and development area are the architects Androsova GD and Sinyavsky EA Sculptor - Nelyubin BS opened in connection with the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin in 1970.
- Dimitrovgrad Lenin monument is located in the town square - the square of the Soviets. It is also a statue of Lenin (in the form of the head) is located within the NCC them. Slavsky.
- Dmitry the monument installed in the historic district, the central square.
- Dubna the world's second largest statue of Lenin lies in the vicinity of the "Big Volga". Sculptor - SD Merkurov, height - 25 m (with pedestal - 37 m), weight - 540 tons. The monument was erected in 1937 on the banks of the Volga near the beginning of the Moscow Canal. [8] Simultaneously, on the other side was a monument to Stalin. After Stalin's death and exposing the "personality cult" monument was blown up, but the pedestal remained.
- Dudinka monument in front of the House of Culture.
- Dyatkovo Located on Lenin Square in the downtown area, next to buildings authorities.
- Ekaterinburg The main monument to Lenin Square is located at 1905, in front of City Hall; Secondary monuments to Lenin placed at the entrance of the Sverdlovsk Tools Factory Street. Frunze, the plant 'Em "on Viz-street and in the pine forest on the street. Roshinsky.
- Efremov - a park near the city administration. Also in the park near the police building.
- Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk region) - Lenin Square opposite the Palace of Culture. There was also the now dismantled joint statue of Lenin and Stalin.
- Izhevsk Monument to Lenin established in 1958 at the National Library of the Udmurt Republic. The work of sculptor PP Yatsynova architect LN Kulaga. Bronze and granite.
- Ishimbay Area them. Lenin (1966), the square on the street gutter.
- Kazan
- Lenin monument standing in the 1930-1951. May 1 in the square and then park in the former Theatre (now Liberty) Square
- The new statue of Lenin with bleachers installed in 1954 at what was then the main Freedom Square
- Monument young Vladimir Ulyanov (like Moscow) set in 1954 at University park on the street Kremlin
- Also a statue of Lenin stands in front of the Lenin House of Culture in Sotsgorod
- Kaliningrad city's major monument to Lenin by the sculptor VB Topuridze was installed at Victory Square in 1958. In 2005, during the reconstruction of the area of the monument was removed (allegedly temporarily, for the restoration), but after the reconstruction of the monument to the area has not returned. Mayor of Kaliningrad Yuri Savenko, put forward the idea of creating the city's Lenin Square, where he could be transferred to the monument. [1]
- Kaluga statue of Lenin in front of the regional administration in the area of old trades that previously had the name of the leader.
- Kamensk Shakhtinsky a monument to Lenin in the eponymous square, at the intersection of the main avenue of the city (Avenue of Karl Marx and Pushkin Street), next to the district council Kamensky district, Rostov region.
- Kemerovo Lenin monument in the Square of the Soviets. The people hovering idea that his coat buttoned up to the left side. Although the author of the monument Kerbel LE laughed at her, he said, his coat buttoned up not at all. One night in 1993 local businessmen had made an unsuccessful attempt to demolition of the monument.
- Kimry a monument placed in the center of the city.
- Kirov[disambiguation needed ] Theatre Square, XX Party Congress.
- Kolomna monument installed in the center of the square of the two revolutions.
- Krasnodar
- The main urban monument to Lenin (sculptor P. Sabsay, architect. A Giants) : Opened in 1956 on the square in front of the Communist Party Regional Committee (now the Legislative Assembly of Krasnodar Region - KYC), according to government decree of the RSFSR. At the end of July 2007 the monument was dismantled under the pretext of reconstruction of the architectural ensemble of the square before the Legislative Assembly. However, the restored monument to the city authorities moved on the forecourt, in front of the Legislative Assembly and a monument to Catherine II. Moving the monument prompted an outcry from the townspeople: According to law enforcement agencies, the Communists and other patriotic organizations organized picket lines several times in front of the Legislative Assembly demanding the return of the monument in its place.
- The oldest statue of Lenin in Krasnodar (sculptor K. Dietrich) [3] is in the park to them. VI Lenin (on the street. Vishnyakova). The monument was in 1925, that is, a year after the death of the leader of the Soviet state. A decision on its creation was accepted January 23, 1924 at a meeting of workers of Krasnodar. Built on donations of the people.
- Krasnoznamensk (Moscow region) is set before the House of Culture (House of the garrison officers).
- Krasnoturinsk Lenin monument installed in front of the city administration in the city center.
- Veliky Novgorod,two monuments - the Sofia area (established in April 1928, lost by war, restored in 1958), in Street Trading Ivanskoy side.
- Vladikavkaz (sculptor ZI Azgur, architect G. Zakharov) is open on Lenin Square in front of the Russian Drama Theatre. Vakhtangov in 1957. In 1993, twice blown up and subsequently restored.
- Volgograd (27 m, the tallest).now in five sites:
- «Great Lenin" - Liberty Square (the intersection of Victory Avenue and the streets of the World)
- «Little Lenin" - the Children's park named after Alexander Pushkin.
- A monument in the main building of the Volgograd State Technical University.
- 2 monuments in car-repair factory.
The world's largest monument to a man actually lived. Monument to Lenin at the beginning of the Volga-Don Canal (Volgograd) The world's second-largest monument to Lenin in Dubna
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- Lenin monument at the entrance of the Volga-Don channel - set in the Krasnoarmeysk area (height pedestal - 30 meters, the sculpture - 27 meters. Sculptor - EV Vucetich. listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest monument of a man who lived reality . It is interesting that earlier on the same pedestal, was a monument to Stalin.
- In the central region on Lenin Square on the 90th anniversary of the monument to Lenin. Sculptor - EV Vucetic.
- In the central region, in the park opposite the building of regional administration.
- The Post Office building is a statue of Lenin.
- Volga:
- Monument to Lenin Square.
- Vyborg:
- A monument in the town square - Red (set in 1957)
- The bust in the house-museum of Lenin
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- Ukraine:
Main article: List of Communists monuments in Ukraine
- Kiev (capital), located in front of Besarabsky Market, erected in the 1950s. The statue was damaged on June 30, 2009, when the nose of the statue and part of its left hand were broken).[5][6][7] The statue was restored (at the expense of the Communist Party of Ukraine[8]) and re-unveiled on November 27, 2009. It was re-unveiled by Petro Symonenko (leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine; during this ceremony two representatives of Svoboda threw a bottle of red paint at the monument[9][10] (who were then attacked by attending Communists[8]).
- Kharkiv: At the Freedom Square (Площа Свободи), erected in 1964.
- Crimea (an autonomous republic in Ukraine with a ethnic Russian majority):
- Simferopol (capital of Crimea)
- Sevastopol
- Yalta
- Belarus:
- Moldova:
- Chisinau: date unknown - at the Moldexpo site.
- Tiraspol: date unknown - outside the Government building.
- Rybnitsa : date unknown - main square.
- Lithuania:
- Druskininkai: 1981, sculptor N.Petrulis.
- Jonava: 1984, sculptor K.Bogdanas.
- Kaunas: 1970, sculptor N.Petrulis.
- Klaipėda: 1976-1991, sculptor G.Jokubonis.
- Palanga: 1977, sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich
- Panevėžys: 1983, sculptor G. Jokubonis.
- Šiauliai: 1970, sculptors A. Toleikis and D. Lukosevicius.
- Vilnius: 1952-1991, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky
- Vilnius: 1979, "Lenin and Kapsukas in Poronino", sculptor K. Bogdanas.
All statues were taken down after 1991, most eventually winding up in Grutas Park; they were all erected during the Soviet period and stood, among other places, in Vilnius (capital, at least two statues, one of them together with Lithuanian communist leader Kapsukas), Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Jonava, Druskininkai, Jurbarkas (the Jurbarkas Lenin is now part of an installation in Europos Parkas park in Vilnius).
- Latvia: Cēsis, unveiled on November 7, 1959. Made by the sculptor Karlis Jansons (1896–1986). The statue was removed on October 17, 1990.
- Tajikistan: Dushanbe (capital, the monument in central Freedom Square was replaced by a monument of Ismoil Somoni, the second in Central Park was also removed and replaced by a statue of Rudaki), Khujand, Nurak, Faizobod
[edit] Other Communist and post-communist states
- East Germany: Berlin (1970) by Nikolai Tomski granite, 19m, Leninplatz, removed in 1992 and buried outside Berlin (there are plans to re-erect it); a bust of Lenin can still be seen on the wall of the former swimming pool of the Russian Embassy on Behrenstrasse and there is a stained glass window of Lenin in the Old Library on Bebelplatz. One statue of Lenin (approximately 2:1) is still standing in Brommystrasse (corner Köpenickerstrasse) in the yard of a removal company.
- Ethiopia: Meskel Square, Addis Ababa. The first Lenin statue in Africa, this monument was constructed in October 1983.[11] The statue was toppled with the fall of the Derg government in 1991.[citation needed]
- Hungary: Érd (Statue Park)
- Poland: Kraków (in Nowa Huta district, pulled down in December 1989),[12] Poronin (removed in 1990)
- Romania: Bucharest (built in front of Casa Presei Libere in April 1960, pulled down in March 1990)
- Vietnam: Hanoi (Duong Dien Bien Phu Street, adjacent to the Vietnamese Army museum)
[edit] Other non-Communist states
- United Kingdom: London Islington Museum, 245 St John Street, Islington. Bust by Lubetkin commissioned by the UK Government during the war in tribute to the efforts of the Soviet Union. It was placed in Holford Square (briefly Lenin's home when he lived in London) and unveiled in 1942. It was a supposed focal point of a new housing development to be named 'Lenin Court' but the bust became a target of fascist sympathisers and was frequently daubed with anti-Communist and anti-semitic messages, even in the months after the liberation of Belsen and Auschwitz. Lubetkin had the bust removed and when the housing development was completed in the late 1940s, it was renamed 'Bevin Court'. The bust was displayed in Islington Town Hall for many years and is now on permanent display in the museum.
- Belfast The Kremlin Bar, one of the premier Gay Bars in Europe, has a statue of Lenin welcoming partygoers over the main entrance.[13]
- Denmark: Hørsholm (1986 - 1996: today located at the Worker's Museum, Copenhagen.)
- Finland:
- France, at montpelier
- Italy:
- Cavriago, at Piazza Lenin (Italian for Lenin Square) (near Reggio Emilia)
- Capri, in the Gardens of Augustus
- Greece, Athens: Front of the Headquarters building of the Communist Party of Greece
- India:
- Kolkata - at the mouth of Lenin Sarani in Esplanade.,
- Vijayawada
- New Delhi
- Nehru Park: The life size statue of Lenin is located in Nehru Park, Delhi, Chanakyapuri>>. The statue was installed on Ist November 1987 during the 70th anniversary of October Revolution. It was unveiled by then Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, Indian Prime-minister Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia Gandhi. Every year on 22nd April members of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and other Left oriented Political parties visits the place to commemorate the Birth Anniversary of Lenin.
- AKG Bhawan: A large bust of Lenin is located in AKG Bhawan, the headquarters of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in New Delhi. This white coloured bust is installed right in front of the bust of A. K. Gopalan. Communist Party of the Soviet Union has gifted this bust to Communist Party of India (Marxist). Before its final installation in the year 2010 it remained isolated in backyard of Party Headquarters for several years.
- Mongolia: Front of Ulaanbaatar Hotel, Ulaanbaatar City
- Netherlands: Enschede, in front of the TwentseWelle Museum. It was placed in the context of an exhibition about the GDR.[14]
- South Pole:
- Pole of inaccessibility Plastic bust left by Soviet scientists in December 1958[15]
- Spain:
- Bust at Otxarkoaga district of Bilbao.
- Svalbard:
- Statues at Barentsburg and Pyramiden are the worlds northernmost Lenin statues.
- Sweden:
- United States:
- Las Vegas - Outside Red Square Restaurant, Mandalay Bay Hotel - Headless
- Seattle - Fremont neighborhood (See Statue of Lenin (Seattle))
- Atlantic City, New Jersey - in the Tropicana Casino[17]
- New York City[18]
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Statues of Lenin |
- Gruto parkas has several Lenin statues: [2], [3], [4].
- Monuments of Lenin
- List of Lenin monuments in the former GDR on "Kunst am Wege" (German)
- [5] The story of the Lenin bust in Islington, London
[edit] References
- ^ a b Two Lenin monuments opened in Luhansk Oblast, UNIAN (April 22, 2008)
- ^ In Kremenchug broke up a monument to Lenin, UNIAN photoservice (25-11-2008)
- ^ Ukraine to remove 10 Soviet-era monuments, UNIAN (28-11-2008)
- ^ a b Kai Aus (2010). "Maailmakultuuri ja ajaloo suurkujude mälestusmärgid Eestis" (in Estonian). http://jelek3.havike.eenet.ee/aja/images/voistlustood/2010/K.Aus_Maailmakultuuri_monumendid_Eestis/Maailmakultuuri_ja_ajaloo_suurkujude_malestusmargid_Eestis_esitlus.pdf. Retrieved 8 September 2011.
- ^ Vandals damage monument to Lenin in downtown Kyiv, Interfax-Ukraine (June 30, 2009)
- ^ Photos; Events by themes: In Kiev injured a monument to Lenin, UNIAN (June 30, 2009)
- ^ Monument to Lenin is damaged in Kyiv, UNIAN (July 1, 2009)
- ^ a b (Ukrainian) Події за темами: У Києві облили фарбою пам’ятник Леніну під час його відкриття після реставрації, UNIAN (November 27, 2009)
- ^ Monument to Lenin was opened with scandal, UNIAN (November 27, 2009)
- ^ Police detain two persons who threw bottle of paint at Lenin monument in Kyiv, Kyiv Post (November 27, 2009)
- ^ Patman, Robert G. The Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa: The Diplomacy of Intervention and Disengagement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. p. 267
- ^ UPHEAVAL IN THE EAST; Lenin Statue in Mothballs, The New York Times, December 11, 1989
- ^ http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ireland/northern-ireland/belfast/entertainment-nightlife/408232
- ^ De Twentsche Courant Tubantia 05 November 2009 Link Dutch language
- ^ "Soviet icon surprises polar scientists". Stuff.co.nz. http://www.stuff.co.nz//201621. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ Här är Skånes Lenin 15 October 2008 [1] Swedish language
- ^ Man Fights to Have Lenin Statue Removed From Casino, Fox News (16JUN2008)
- ^ http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/red_square_and_the_lenin_statue/