Monument of the Great October Revolution
Appearance
Location | Kiev, Ukrainian SSR |
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Designer | Vasyl Borodai, Ivan Znoba, Valentyn Znoba |
Type | Monument composition |
Material | granite, bronze |
Height | 18.4 m (60 ft) |
Completion date | 22 October 1977 |
Dedicated to | October Revolution |
Dismantled date | 12 September 1991 |
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
[edit]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
[edit]- Vasyl Borodai, sculptor
- Ivan Znoba, sculptor
- Valentyn Znoba, sculptor
- Oleksandr Malynovsky, architect
- M.Skybytsky, architect
Gallery
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Removal of the monument on September 12, 1991, by decision of the Kiev City Council
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Maidan Nezalezhnosti in September 1991; the monument is being taken down
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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) - ^ Susman, Tina, "Ukrainians Prepare to Pull Down Statue of 'Bloodstained' Lenin," AP Online, August 30, 1991."
- ^ 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)
External links
[edit]Categories:
- History of Kyiv
- Maidan Nezalezhnosti
- Monuments and memorials in Kyiv
- Demolished buildings and structures in Kyiv
- Cultural depictions of Vladimir Lenin
- Monuments and memorials to Vladimir Lenin
- Sculptures in the Soviet Union
- Granite sculptures
- Sculptures of men in Ukraine
- Sculptures of women in Ukraine
- Bronze sculptures
- Colossal statues in Ukraine
- Statues removed in 1991
- Sculptures of men in the Soviet Union
- Sculptures of women in the Soviet Union
- Outdoor sculptures in Kyiv