List of statues of Lenin
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In the Soviet Union, every city had several monuments of Vladimir Lenin. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, many statues of Vladimir Lenin were torn down. This happened even earlier in the European post-Communist states and in the Baltic states. However some remain, and some new ones have been erected.
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[edit] Communist and post-communist states
- Former Soviet Union:
- Russia
- Abakan
- Archangelsk
- Belgorod
- Dubna, the largest monument to Lenin in the world (15m)
- Irkutsk
- Kaliningrad
- Monino
- Moscow (capital)
- Novosibirsk (3rd Largest City in Russia)
- Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
- Perm
- Pskov
- Rostov on Don
- St. Petersburg
- Samara
- Saratov
- Sochi
- Ulan Ude
- Ulyanovsk
- Velikiy Novgorod
- Vladivostok
- Volkhov
- Volgograd
- Yaroslavl
- Ukraine:
- Donetsk
- Feodosiya
- Gorlovka
- Kharkov
- Kiev (capital)
- Poltava
- Yalta
- Sevastopol
- Zaporizhzhya
- Belarus:
- Armenia: Yerevan (capital, taken down after independence)
- Azerbaijan: Baku (capital, taken down after independence)
- Estonia: Narva
- Kazakhstan: Taldy-Korgan (Taldyqorghan), Karaganda
- Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek (capital)
- Lithuania: 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).
- Tajikistan: Khojand
- Moldova (in the breakaway Transnistria region): Bendery, Tiraspol (capital)
- Russia
- Other Communist and post-communist states:
- GDR: Berlin 1970 by Nikolai Tomski granite, 19m, Leninplatz, removed in 1992 and buried outside Berlin (there are plans to re-erect it); a bust of Lenin can still be seen on the wall of the former swimming pool of the Russian Embassy on Behrenstrasse and there is a stained glass window of Lenin in the Old Library on Bebelplatz
- Hungary: Érd (Staute Park)
- Bulgaria: Sofia (capital, taken down after 1991)
- Cuba: Havana (capital)
- Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar (capital)
- Vietnam: Hanoi (capital)
[edit] Other places
- Antarctica: Soviet-built Pole of inaccessibility research station with outdoor bust of Lenin
- Europe:
- United Kingdom: Belfast, Northern Ireland - above the entrance to the Kremlin Bar
- Norway:
- Barentsburg, Svalbard
- Pyramiden, Svalbard - the world's most northern Lenin statue
- Italy:
- Cavriago, at Piazza Lenin (Italian for Lenin Square) (near Reggio Emilia)
- Capri, in the Gardens of Augustus
- Finland: Kotka,Turku
- India: Kolkata, Vijayawada
- United States:
- Freedom Park in Arlington, Virginia - toppled and headless, the statue was shipped from St. Petersburg, Russia.
- Fremont in Seattle, Washington - near the Fremont Sunday market site. Shipped from Slovakia. [1]
- East Village in New York City - atop "Red Square" luxury apartment building, installed in 1994.
- Dallas, Texas
- Atlantic City, New Jersey - in the Tropicana Casino
- Las Vegas, Nevada - in the Mandalay Casino, headless
- Zimbabwe: Harare
[edit] Gallery
 Moscow, Russia |
 Moscow, Russia (within surroundings) |
 Vladivostok, Russia |
 Petropavlovsk, Russia |
 Yaroslavl, Russia |
 New York City, United States |
 Seattle, United States |
 Kolkata, India |
 Vijayawada, India |
 Cavriago, Italy |
 Kiev, Ukraine |
 Minsk, Belarus |
 A Palace of Soviets project (415 m high) |
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- Lenins of the world - A compilation of surviving Lenin statues
- Gruto parkas has several Lenin statues: [2], [3], [4].
- Monuments of Lenin
