List of Statues of Vladimir Lenin - Former Soviet Republics

Former Soviet Republics

• Armenia
  • Yerevan - a monument once stood in Republic Square until 1991.
• Belarus
  • Minsk (capital)
  • Brest
• Estonia
  • Jõhvi: 1953–1991, sculptors Enn Roos, Arseni Mölder, Signe Mölder.
  • Kohtla-Järve: 1950–1992, copy of statue in Jõhvi.
  • Kallaste: 1988–19??
  • Narva: 1957–1993, sculptor Olav Männi.
  • Pärnu:
    • 1950s–1981.
    • 1981–1990, sculptor Matti Varik, a replica of a monument built in Kotka in 1979.
  • Tallinn: 1950–1991, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky.
  • Tartu:
    • 1949–1952 sitting Lenin (ferroconcrete), sculptor Sergey Merkurov.
    • 1952–1990 standing Lenin (bronze, height 3.5 m, weight 3.5 tons), sculptors August Vomm, Garibald Pommer, Ferdi Sannamaes.
• Georgia
  • Tbilisi - a monument once stood in Freedom Square (Tavisuplebis Moedana) until 1991.
• Latvia
  • Cēsis, unveiled on November 7, 1959. Made by the sculptor Karlis Jansons (1896–1986). The statue was removed on October 17, 1990.
• Lithuania
  • Druskininkai: 1981, sculptor N.Petrulis.
  • Jonava: 1984, sculptor K.Bogdanas.
  • Kaunas: 1970, sculptor N.Petrulis.
  • Klaipėda: 1976-1991, sculptor G.Jokubonis.
  • Palanga: 1977, sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich
  • Panevėžys: 1983, sculptor G. Jokubonis.
  • Šiauliai: 1970, sculptors A. Toleikis and D. Lukosevicius.
  • Vilnius: 1952-1991, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky
  • Vilnius: 1979, "Lenin and Kapsukas in Poronino", sculptor K. Bogdanas.

All statues were taken down after 1991, most eventually winding up in Grutas Park; they were all erected during the Soviet period and stood, among other places, in Vilnius (capital, at least two statues, one of them together with Lithuanian communist leader Kapsukas), Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Jonava, Druskininkai, Jurbarkas (the Jurbarkas Lenin is now part of an installation in Europos Parkas park in Vilnius).

• Moldova
  • Chisinau: date unknown - at the Moldexpo site.
  • Tiraspol: date unknown - outside the Government building.
  • Rybnitsa : date unknown - main square.
• Russia
  • Akhtubinsk a monument installed in the downtown area for them. VI Lenin.
  • Almetyevsk a monument installed in the center of the city on Lenin Square.
  • Arzamas 2 monuments in the city - the Cathedral Square and Peace Square.
  • Arkhangelsk The city has several monuments. There remained only a few existing ones. Downtown on the Square. them. Lenin. This monument is the last major monument to Lenin in the Soviet Union established (installed in 1988). In Solombala on the Square. Terekhina and on the street. Gagarin in the yard.
  • Astrakhan monument installed in the square to them. VI Lenin.
  • Balakovo, Saratov region: the city is 2 monuments
  • Barnaul in 4 monuments: three on the main avenue (square October, pl. Soviets intersection with the street. Anatolia), and one in Upland Park. Because of the drapery which is present in the composition of the monument near the street. Anatoly, a guide to Russian British publisher Lonely Planet has called the monument "Lenin Toreador"
  • Belgorod 4 monuments in the city - the Cathedral Square (the former Revolution Square), in the Park. Lenin, near the now-current cinema "Falcon" and a bust in the Belgorod Dairy Plant (BMP).
  • Berezniki Lenin Square (about Palace of Culture. Lenin).
  • Bogoroditsk The city has a monument to the city center.
  • Boksitogorsk The city has a monument in the central square (Lenin Square).
  • Dubna (25 m, the second tallest; 15 m statue on a 10 m pedestal)
  • Gelendzhik Lenin monument near the boarding house "Caucasus", st. Mayachnaya.
  • The working village Settlement on Lenin Street has a monument to Lenin, set in contemporary Russia (established November 7, 2006). Sculptor - V. Fetisov.
  • Dedovsk A small monument is located opposite the branch of RSCU in the street of Gagarin.
  • Dzerzhinsk Located on Lenin Square. The authors of the improvement and development area are the architects Androsova GD and Sinyavsky EA Sculptor - Nelyubin BS opened in connection with the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin in 1970.
  • Dimitrovgrad Lenin monument is located in the town square - the square of the Soviets. It is also a statue of Lenin (in the form of the head) is located within the NCC them. Slavsky.
  • Dmitry the monument installed in the historic district, the central square.
  • Dubna the world's second largest statue of Lenin lies in the vicinity of the "Big Volga". Sculptor - SD Merkurov, height - 25 m (with pedestal - 37 m), weight - 540 tons. The monument was erected in 1937 on the banks of the Volga near the beginning of the Moscow Canal. Simultaneously, on the other side was a monument to Stalin. After Stalin's death and exposing the "personality cult" monument was blown up, but the pedestal remained.
  • Dudinka monument in front of the House of Culture.
  • Dyatkovo Located on Lenin Square in the downtown area, next to buildings authorities.
  • Ekaterinburg The main monument to Lenin Square is located at 1905, in front of City Hall; Secondary monuments to Lenin placed at the entrance of the Sverdlovsk Tools Factory Street. Frunze, the plant 'Em "on Viz-street and in the pine forest on the street. Roshinsky.
  • Efremov - a park near the city administration. Also in the park near the police building.
  • Izhevsk Monument to Lenin established in 1958 at the National Library of the Udmurt Republic. The work of sculptor PP Yatsynova architect LN Kulaga. Bronze and granite.
  • Ishimbay Area them. Lenin (1966), the square on the street gutter.
  • Kazan
    • Lenin monument standing in the 1930-1951. May 1 in the square and then park in the former Theatre (now Liberty) Square
    • The new statue of Lenin with bleachers installed in 1954 at what was then the main Freedom Square
    • Monument young Vladimir Ulyanov (like Moscow) set in 1954 at University park on the street Kremlin
    • Also a statue of Lenin stands in front of the Lenin House of Culture in Sotsgorod
  • Kaliningrad city's major monument to Lenin by the sculptor VB Topuridze was installed at Victory Square in 1958. In 2005, during the reconstruction of the area of the monument was removed (allegedly temporarily, for the restoration), but after the reconstruction of the monument to the area has not returned. Mayor of Kaliningrad Yuri Savenko, put forward the idea of creating the city's Lenin Square, where he could be transferred to the monument.
  • Kaluga statue of Lenin in front of the regional administration in the area of old trades that previously had the name of the leader.
  • Kamensk Shakhtinsky a monument to Lenin in the eponymous square, at the intersection of the main avenue of the city (Avenue of Karl Marx and Pushkin Street), next to the district council Kamensky district, Rostov region.
  • Kemerovo Lenin monument in the Square of the Soviets. The people hovering idea that his coat buttoned up to the left side. Although the author of the monument Kerbel LE laughed at her, he said, his coat buttoned up not at all. One night in 1993 local businessmen had made an unsuccessful attempt to demolition of the monument.
  • Kimry a monument placed in the center of the city.
  • Kirov Theatre Square, XX Party Congress.
  • Kolomna monument installed in the center of the square of the two revolutions.
  • Krasnodar
    • The main urban monument to Lenin (sculptor P. Sabsay, architect. A Giants) : Opened in 1956 on the square in front of the Communist Party Regional Committee (now the Legislative Assembly of Krasnodar Region - KYC), according to government decree of the RSFSR. At the end of July 2007 the monument was dismantled under the pretext of reconstruction of the architectural ensemble of the square before the Legislative Assembly. However, the restored monument to the city authorities moved on the forecourt, in front of the Legislative Assembly and a monument to Catherine II. Moving the monument prompted an outcry from the townspeople: According to law enforcement agencies, the Communists and other patriotic organizations organized picket lines several times in front of the Legislative Assembly demanding the return of the monument in its place.
    • The oldest statue of Lenin in Krasnodar (sculptor K. Dietrich) is in the park to them. VI Lenin (on the street. Vishnyakova). The monument was in 1925, that is, a year after the death of the leader of the Soviet state. A decision on its creation was accepted January 23, 1924 at a meeting of workers of Krasnodar. Built on donations of the people.
  • Krasnoturinsk Lenin monument installed in front of the city administration in the city centre.
  • Krasnoyarsk Lenin statue is on Revolution Square in the city centre.
  • Krasnoznamensk (Moscow region) is set before the House of Culture (House of the garrison officers).
  • Kursk Lenin monument is installed in front of the city administration in the city centre.
  • Veliky Novgorod,two monuments - the Sofia area (established in April 1928, lost by war, restored in 1958), in Street Trading Ivanskoy side.
  • Vladikavkaz (sculptor ZI Azgur, architect G. Zakharov) is open on Lenin Square in front of the Russian Drama Theatre. Vakhtangov in 1957. In 1993, twice blown up and subsequently restored.
  • Volgograd (27 m, the tallest).now in five sites:
    • «Great Lenin" - Liberty Square (the intersection of Victory Avenue and the streets of the World)
    • «Little Lenin" - the Children's park named after Alexander Pushkin.
    • A monument in the main building of the Volgograd State Technical University.
    • 2 monuments in car-repair factory.

The world's largest monument to a man actually lived. Monument to Lenin at the beginning of the Volga-Don Canal (Volgograd) The world's second-largest monument to Lenin in Dubna

• • • Lenin monument at the entrance of the Volga-Don channel - set in the Krasnoarmeysk area (height pedestal - 30 meters, the sculpture - 27 meters. Sculptor - EV Vucetich. listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest monument of a man who lived reality . It is interesting that earlier on the same pedestal, was a monument to Stalin.
    • In the central region on Lenin Square on the 90th anniversary of the monument to Lenin. Sculptor - EV Vucetic.
    • In the central region, in the park opposite the building of regional administration.
    • The Post Office building is a statue of Lenin.
  • Volga:
    • Monument to Lenin Square.
  • Vyborg:
    • A monument in the town square - Red (set in 1957)
    • The bust in the house-museum of Lenin
  • Yakutsk - Lenin statue in Lenin Square, in the centre of the city.
  • Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk region) - Lenin Square opposite the Palace of Culture. There was also the now dismantled joint statue of Lenin and Stalin.
• Tajikistan
  • Dushanbe (capital, the monument in central Freedom Square was replaced by a monument of Ismoil Somoni, the second in Central Park was also removed and replaced by a statue of Rudaki), Khujand, Nurak, Faizobod
• Ukraine
  • Kiev (capital), located in front of Besarabsky Market, erected in the 1950s. The statue was damaged on June 30, 2009, when the nose of the statue and part of its left hand were broken). The statue was restored (at the expense of the Communist Party of Ukraine) and re-unveiled on November 27, 2009. It was re-unveiled by Petro Symonenko (leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine; during this ceremony two representatives of Svoboda threw a bottle of red paint at the monument (who were then attacked by attending Communists).
  • Kharkiv: At the Freedom Square (Площа Свободи), erected in 1964.
• Donetsk: A statue of Lenin is located at the Lenin Square (площадь Ленина).
• Mariupol: A statue of Lenin is located at the Lenin Avenue (проспект Ленина).
• Crimea (an autonomous republic in Ukraine with an ethnic Russian majority):
  • Simferopol (capital of Crimea)
  • Sevastopol
  • Yalta