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This article is a list of current and former known monuments of Vladimir Lenin.Many of the monuments in former Soviet republics and people's republics were removed after the fall of the Soviet Union, while some of these countries, mainly Russia and Belarus, retained the thousands of Lenin statues that were erected during the Soviet period.
Statue of Lenin: Korosten: 5 October 2014: Toppled: Statue of Lenin: Kyiv: 8 December 2013: Toppled and destroyed [23] Statue of Lenin: Melitopol: 5 July 2015: Dismantled by the City Council: Statue of Lenin Novomoskovsk: 2 August 2015 Toppled [36] Statue of Lenin "Pressmash" Factory, Odesa: 23 October 2015 Transformed into a statue of Darth ...
The removal or destruction of Lenin monuments and statues gained particular momentum during the Euromaidan movement in the beginning of 2014. Under the motto "Ленінопад" (Leninopad, translated into English as "Leninfall"), activists pulled down a dozen monuments in the Kyiv region, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and elsewhere, or damaged them. [10]
Ukraine had removed over 2,000 monuments to Russian communism by 2020 in accordance with the de-communism law of 2015, including 1,320 statues or busts of Lenin. Additional monuments were removed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [8] According to governor Maksym Kozytskyi, 312 monuments were removed in 2013 in Lviv Oblast.
The Lenin Monument (German: Lenin-Denkmal) was a monument to Vladimir Lenin in East Berlin created by the Soviet Russian sculptor Nikolai Tomsky. It was inaugurated on April 19, 1970 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth. After German reunification, the district council of Friedrichshain voted for its removal despite ...
Vladimir Lenin monument, Kyiv. The Vladimir Lenin monument in Kyiv was a statue dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The larger than life-size (3.45 meters [11.32 feet]) Lenin monument was built by Russian sculptor Sergey Merkurov from the same red Karelian stone as Lenin's Mausoleum.
Lenin Monument (Berlin) Lenin Monument in the Kaluga Square. Lenin Monument, Pavlovskaya Street. Lenin Museum. Lenin Prize. Lenin Raion. Order of Lenin. Lenin's Mausoleum. Leninade.
The Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was a sculpture monument to Vladimir Lenin, located in Freedom Square, Kharkiv, Ukraine, that was toppled and demolished in 2014. It was the largest monument to Lenin in Ukraine, designed by Alexander Sidorenko after entering an open competition to design the monument in 1963, in the lead up to the anniversary of the October Revolution.