List of statues of Lenin

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In the Soviet Union, every city had several monuments of Vladimir Lenin. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, many statues of Vladimir Lenin were torn down. This happened even earlier in the European post-Communist states and in the Baltic states. However some remain, and some new ones have been erected.

Contents

1 Communist and post-communist states
2 Other states
3 Gallery
4 External links

Communist and post-communist states

Former Soviet Union:
*Russia:
**Abakan
**Archangelsk
**Dubna, the largest monument to Lenin in the world
**Irkutsk
**Kaliningrad
**Monino
**Moscow (capital)
**Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
**Perm
**Rostov on Don
**St. Petersburg
**Samara
**Saratov
**Sochi
**Ulan Ude
**Ulyanovsk
**Velikiy Novgorod
**Vladivostok
**Volchov
**Volgograd
**Yaroslavl
*Ukraine:
**Donetsk
**Kharkov
**Kiev (capital)
**Poltava
**Yalta
**Sevastopol
**Zaporizhzhya
*Armenia: Yerevan (capital, taken down after collapse)
*Belarus: Minsk (capital), Grodno, Vitsebsk, Brest, Slonim
*Estonia: Narva
*Kazakhstan: Taldy-Korgan (Taldyqorghan), Karaganda
*Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek (capital)
*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, Siauliai, Jonava, Druskininkai, Jurbarkas (the Jurbarkas Lenin is now part of an installation in Europos Parkas park in Vilnius).
*Tajikistan: Khojand
*Moldova (in the breakaway Transnistria region): Bendery, Tiraspol (capital)
Other Communist and post-communist states:
*Hungary: Budapest (Staute Park) (capital)
*Cuba: Havana (capital)
*Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar (capital)
*Vietnam: Hanoi (capital)

Other states

Europe:
*United Kingdom: Belfast, Northern Ireland - above the entrance to the Kremlin Bar
*Norway: Barentsburg, Svalbard
*Italy:
**Cavriago, at Piazza Lenin (Italian for Lenin Square) (near Reggio Emilia)
**Capri, in the Gardens of Augustus
*Finland: Kotka,Turku
India: Kolkata, Vijayawada
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. [link]
*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
Zimbabwe: Harare (capital)

Gallery

Image:Lenin-statue-Moscow-October-place.jpg|Moscow, Russia Image:Moscow scene Sanyo.jpg|Moscow, Russia (within surroundings) Image:Lenin-Statue-in-Vladivostok.jpg|Vladivostok, Russia Image:LeninSquarePetropavlovsk.jpg|Petropavlovsk, Russia Image:Lenin-statue-in-Yaroslavl.jpg|Yaroslavl, Russia Image:Lenin-east village.jpg|New York City, United States Image:Fremont_Lenin.jpg|Seattle, United States Image:Kolkatalenin.jpg|Kolkata, India Image:Leninvijaywada.JPG|Vijayawada, India Image:lenin_bust_cavriago.jpg|Cavriago, Italy

External links

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[Lenins of the world - A compilation of surviving Lenin statues]
[Gruto parkas] has several Lenin statues: [link], [link], [link].
[Monuments of Lenin]

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