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The controversial Bronze Soldier of Tallinn monument, vandalized in protest of the Russian invasion on Ukraine, 12 April 2022.. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that had commenced in February 2022, a number of Soviet-era monuments and memorials were demolished or removed, or commitments to remove them were announced in former Eastern Bloc Soviet satellite states, as well as several ...
The list of damaged cultural sites during the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a list of cultural sites in Ukraine that have been verified by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as damaged and/or destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (that started on 24 February 2022).
However, by 2013, most Lenin statues across Ukraine were still intact. During the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests, the destruction of statues became widespread, a phenomenon that came to be popularly known as Leninopad, or Leninfall in English. [1] The use of "-пад" being akin to English words suffixed with "fall" as in "waterfall" and ...
It had been erected in 1946. On June 30, 2009, the nose of the statue and part of the left hand were destroyed. [14] [15] [16] The statue was restored (at the expense of the Communist Party of Ukraine) [17] and re-unveiled on November 27, 2009, by Petro Symonenko, leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
The statue in the right is completely destroyed; nearby monument to WWII heroes (in the background) is partially destroyed. Another severely damaged city of Kharkiv region was Izium , where historical buildings, churches, memorials, as well as Polovtsian stone sculptures of 9th-13th centuries, were damaged or destroyed in the battle for the city .
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Pushkin's situation turned out to be quite similar to the destruction of monuments to Lenin known as Leninopad. [4] The phenomenon was dubbed "Pushkinopad" (Пушкінопад) by Ukrainians, a pun literally translated as "Pushkinfall", with the coinage of "-пад" being akin to ...
Religious buildings and structures destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 C, 2 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures destroyed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total.
The statue overlooking the Dnieper Hydroelectric Station (formerly named Lenin Dam) was the largest remaining Lenin statue in Ukraine. [35] On 19 May 2016, the Ukrainian parliament voted to rename Ukraine's fourth-largest city Dnipropetrovsk to "Dnipro". [36] The renaming of various locations was signed into the law on 20 May 2016. [37] [38]