List of statues of Lenin

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East Berlin, Germany

In the Soviet Union, many cities had monuments of Vladimir Lenin. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, many statues of Vladimir Lenin were broken with no permission from their authors. This happened even earlier in the European post-Communist states and in the Baltic states. However, in many of the former Soviet Republics (namely Russia, Belarus and Ukraine) many remain, and some new ones have been erected.

1 Former Soviet republics and allies of the Soviet Union
2 Other places
3 Gallery
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Former Soviet republics and allies of the Soviet Union

Monument near Dubna

Monument to Vladimir Lenin in Sevastopol

Monument to Vladimir Lenin in central Tbilisi, Georgia.

Former Soviet Union:
- Russia
  - Abakan
  - Archangelsk
  - Belgorod
  - Chelyabinsk
  - Dubna, the largest monument to Lenin in the world (15m)
  - Irkutsk
  - Kaliningrad
  - Monino
  - Moscow (capital)
  - Murmansk
  - Novosibirsk (3rd Largest City in Russia)
  - Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
  - Petrozavodsk
  - Perm
  - Pskov
  - Rostov on Don
  - St. Petersburg
  - Samara
  - Saratov
  - Sochi
  - Suoyarvi
  - Ulan Ude
  - Ulyanovsk
  - Velikiy Novgorod
  - Vladivostok
  - Volkhov
  - Volgograd
  - Voronezh
  - Vyborg
  - Yaroslavl
  - Zelenogorsk
- Ukraine:
  - Donetsk
  - Feodosiya
  - Gorlovka
  - Kharkov
  - Kherson
  - Kiev (capital)
  - Poltava
  - Yalta
  - Sevastopol
  - Simferopol
  - 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
- Georgia: Tbilisi (capital, taken down after independence)
- Uzbekistan: Tashkent
- Kazakhstan: Karaganda
- Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek (capital) Lenin's monument is removed from central square Ala-too, and posted a new "mother of homeland" monument.
- 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: Dushanbe, Khojand
- Moldova (in the breakaway Transnistria region): Bendery, Tiraspol (capital)
Other Communist and post-communist states:
- East Germany: 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)
- Poland: Kraków (in Nowa Huta district, pulled down in 1989)^[1]

- Romania: Bucharest (built in front of Casa Presei Libere in April 1960, pulled down in March 1990)
- Vietnam: Hanoi (capital)

[edit] Other places

Antarctica: Soviet-built Pole of inaccessibility research station with outdoor bust of Lenin
Europe:
- Denmark: Hørsholm (1986 - 1996: today located at the Worker's Museum, Copenhagen.)
- Finland: Kotka,Turku
- Italy:
  - Cavriago, at Piazza Lenin (Italian for Lenin Square) (near Reggio Emilia)
  - Capri, in the Gardens of Augustus
- Netherlands:
  - Tjuchem, a small town in Groningen, the owner of a building company took it away from East Germany.
- Norway:
  - Barentsburg, Svalbard
  - Pyramiden, Svalbard - the world's most northern Lenin statue
- Spain:
  - Bilbao, next to a bust of Marx at Otxarkoaga district
- Sweden: At the wild west amusement park High Chaparral near Hillerstorp, Gnosjö, Jönköping County (Småland).
- United Kingdom: Belfast, Northern Ireland - above the entrance to the Kremlin Bar
India: Kolkata, Vijayawada Nehru Park, chanakyapuri, New delhi
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.

Main article: Statue of Lenin (Seattle)

- 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
- Paradise, 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
Next to the State Historical Museum in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan	Grūtas Park (formerly Lukiškės Square, Vilnius)	Head of Lenin in the basement of the Museum of Occupation in Tallinn, Estonia	Statue Of Lenin at Finowfurt airport museum in Eberswalde, Germany