Monument of the Great October Revolution

Monument of the Great October Revolution
Monument of the Great October Revolution in front of the Moscow Hotel (now Hotel Ukraine)
LocationKiev, Ukrainian SSR
DesignerVasyl Borodai, Ivan Znoba, Valentyn Znoba
TypeMonument composition
Materialgranite, bronze
Height18.4 m (60 ft)
Completion date22 October 1977; 46 years ago (1977-10-22)
Dedicated toOctober Revolution
Dismantled date12 September 1991; 32 years ago (1991-09-12)
Due to 2015 Ukrainian decommunization laws all communist monuments in Ukraine legally have to be dismantled.[1]

Monument of the Great October Revolution was a Soviet monument that was located on the October Revolution Square from 1977–1991 (now Independence Square)[2] in Kiev, at the time the capital of the Ukrainian SSR as part of the Soviet Union.[3]

Description

The monument had a form of a granite pylon with a figure of Vladimir Lenin out of red granite (8.9 m (29 ft)). In front of the pylon there were four bronze figures of male and female workers, peasant and sailor, each 5.25 m (17.2 ft) in height. The whole composition was located on a granite stylobate.

Designers

  • Vasyl Borodai, sculptor
  • Ivan Znoba, sculptor
  • Valentyn Znoba, sculptor
  • Oleksandr Malynovsky, architect
  • M.Skybytsky, architect

Gallery

  • Removal of the monument on September 12, 1991, by decision of the Kiev City Council
    Removal of the monument on September 12, 1991, by decision of the Kiev City Council
  • Maidan Nezalezhnosti in September 1991; the monument is being taken down
    Maidan Nezalezhnosti in September 1991; the monument is being taken down

See also

References

  1. ^ Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization. Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015
    Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes, Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20
    Poroshenko: Time for Ukraine to resolutely get rid of Communist symbols, UNIAN. 17 May 2015
    Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols, BBC News (14 April 2015)
  2. ^ Susman, Tina, "Ukrainians Prepare to Pull Down Statue of 'Bloodstained' Lenin," AP Online, August 30, 1991."
  3. ^ A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 2010, ISBN 1442610212 (page 563/564 & 722/723)

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