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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 .
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 ...
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.
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 ...
[12] [13] Since February 2014 and mid-April 2015, more than 500 statues of Lenin were dismantled in Ukraine, and nearly 1,700 were still standing. [citation needed] Pulled down: Kyiv: a statue of Lenin stood in front of Bessarabskyi Market. It had been erected in 1946. On June 30, 2009, the nose of the statue and part of the left hand were ...
The Statue of Lenin in Berdychiv (in Ukrainian: Пам'ятник Леніну В. І.) was a sculpture monument to the revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, located in Berdychiv, Ukraine. The monument, a work by M. Vasylchenko, P. Biryukov and P. Perevoznyk, was made of granite with a total height of 8.7 metres (29 ft) (sculpture 4.0 m, pedestal 4.7 m).
Freedom Square, Kharkiv in 2003, showing half of the square area (only the circular neighbouring park on the north-western edge). The square proper begins at the large statue of Lenin (this statue has since been removed). This statue of Lenin is seen in the lower right corner, casting a long shadow which points into the square.
The Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv - the largest statue of Lenin in Ukraine - was also toppled in 2014 by protesters including members of the Azov Battalion. In 2015 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko approved laws that required the removal of all socialist symbolism in public places, with the exception of World War Two memorials. [6]