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
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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