Monument of the Great October Revolution
Monument of the Great October Revolution was a Soviet monument that was located on the October Revolution Square from 1977–1991 in what is now Independence Square[2] in Kiev, Ukraine's current capital city and during the lifespan of the Monument of the Great October Revolution the capital city of the Ukrainian SSR as part of the Soviet Union.[nb 1]
 Monument of the Great October Revolution in front of the Hotel "Moskva" | |
| Location |  |
|---|---|
| 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 | 1991 |
| Because of 2015 Ukrainian decommunization laws all communist monuments in Ukraine legally have to be dismantled.[1] | |
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
Removing of the monument on September 12, 1991 (decision of the Kiev City Council)
Maidan Nezalezhnosti in September 1991, there is seen the monument being taken down
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See also
Notes
- Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union from 1920 until Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991.[3]
References
- 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, "Ukranians 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)
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