 Monument of the Great October Revolution in front of the Moscow Hotel (now Hotel Ukraine) | |
| Location | Kiev, Ukrainian SSR |
|---|---|
| Designer | Vasyl Borodai, Ivan Znoba, Valentyn Znoba |
| Type | Monument composition |
| Material | granite, bronze |
| Height | 18.4 m (60 ft) |
| Completion date | 22 October 1977; 47 years ago (1977-10-22) |
| Dedicated to | October Revolution |
| Dismantled date | 12 September 1991; 33 years ago (1991-09-12) |
| Due to 2015 Ukrainian decommunization laws all communist monuments in Ukraine legally have to be dismantled. | |
Monument of the Great October Revolution was a Soviet monument that was located on the October Revolution Square from 1977–1991 (now Independence Square) in Kiev, at the time the capital of the Ukrainian SSR as part of the Soviet Union.
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
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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
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, "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
- Chronology of the Soviet Union disintegration.
- In Kiev took down the Monument commemorating the Great October Socialist Revolution (1991). Calendarium
- Face of Kiev: How in the city monuments were changed. Comments.
- 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