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Mother Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна-Мати, romanized: Ukraina-Maty [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ ˈmɑtɪ]) is a monumental Soviet-era statue in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War . [ 1 ]
The Hero City monument (officially, the Obelisk in honor of the hero city of Kyiv, Ukrainian: Обеліск на честь міста-героя Києва) is a World War II memorial in Halytska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is a 30 m-tall (98 ft) obelisk that was erected in 1982, during the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with ...
Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center (Ukrainian: Меморіальний центр Голокосту «Бабин Яр», romanized: Memorialnyy tsentr Holokostu «Babyn Yar»), officially the Foundation and Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, is an educational institution that documents, explains and commemorates the Babyn Yar shootings of September 1941 and aims to broaden and sustain the ...
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Stalin’s inability to initially contain the advancing Nazi war machine convinced Vlasov that the Soviet system was rotten to the core. Taken by his captors to Germany, he began to conceive of a ...
The Golden Gate of Kyiv (Ukrainian: Золоті ворота, romanized: Zoloti vorota [zɔloˈti woˈrɔtɐ]) was the main gate in the 11th century fortifications of Kyiv, the capital of Kievan Rus'. It was named in imitation of the Golden Gate of Constantinople.
By February 25, 2014, an estimate ran of over 90 statues and monuments being pulled down, removed or relocated. [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 ...