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The Statue of Lenin is a 16 ft (5 m) bronze statue of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.It was created by Bulgarian-born Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov and initially put on display in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1988, the year before the Velvet Revolution.
Riesa – Statue of Lenin moved from former Lenin Square in 1991 into a park nearby Soviet war graves. Renovated in 2022. [38] Leninplatz, East Berlin, Germany (removed in 1992) Schwerin – Statue of Lenin, made by the Estonian sculptor Jaak Soans and inaugurated on June 22, 1985. Even nowadays this monument is still causing heated debates ...
[8] [9] It remains home to a controversial statue of Vladimir Lenin salvaged from Slovakia by an art lover from Washington state who was teaching in the area at the time. After the 1989 fall of the Communist government, he brought the statue to Fremont with money raised through a mortgage on his house. [7]
Statue of Lenin (Seattle) Statue of William H. Seward (Seattle) W. Waiting for the Interurban This page was last edited on 23 May 2024, at 21:02 (UTC). Text is ...
A separate Lenin statue also stands in New York City: the East Village Lenin Statue. Unlike Seattle's, this statue was not purchased, but was found discarded in Moscow by real estate developers Michael Shaoul and Michael Rosen, who then salvaged, shipped, and installed the 18-foot Lenin statue in New York in 1994.
An Ustrzyki Dolne statue 1951–56. As the result of the 1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange Poland obtained Ustrzyki Dolne, where Stalin's statue existed. The statue was unpopular, dressed, decorated with sausages or a broom and finally removed in 1956. [11] Kraków – with Vladimir Lenin, in Strzelecki Park, removed in 1957 [12]
The East Village Lenin Statue is an 18-foot (5.5 m) statue of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that stands on the roof of 178 Norfolk Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [2]
Another example of Kerbel's sculptures is the Lenin Monument in the Parque Lenin area of Havana, Cuba. In 1976 the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union presented the Government of Sri Lanka the monument of Solomon Bandaranaike , the late Prime minister of the country, carved by Lev Kerbel.