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.

Contents 1 Communist and post-communist states 2 Other states 3 Gallery 4 External links

[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)
    • Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
    • Perm
    • 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:
    • Brest
    • Grodno
    • Homiel
    • Minsk (capital)
    • Rechytsa
    • Slonim
    • Vitsebsk
  • 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)
• Other Communist and post-communist states:
  • GDR: Berlin 1970-1992 by Nikolai Tomski granite, 19m, Leninplatz, Berlin
  • Hungary: Érd (Staute Park)
  • Cuba: Havana (capital)
  • Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar (capital)
  • Vietnam: Hanoi (capital)

[edit] Other states

• Europe:
  • United Kingdom: Belfast, Northern Ireland - above the entrance to the Kremlin Bar
  • Norway: Barentsburg, Svalbard
  • 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
• Zimbabwe: Harare (capital)

[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

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Statues of Lenin

• Lenins of the world - A compilation of surviving Lenin statues
• Gruto parkas has several Lenin statues: [2], [3], [4].
• Monuments of Lenin