Monument Name: | Monument of the Great October Revolution |
Dedicated To: | October Revolution |
Location: | Kiev, Ukrainian SSR |
Type: | Monument composition |
Material: | granite, bronze |
Designer: | Vasyl Borodai, Ivan Znoba, Valentyn Znoba |
Height: | 18.4m (60.4feet) |
Extra: | 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]
The monument had a form of a granite pylon with a figure of Vladimir Lenin out of red granite (8.9m (29.2feet)). In front of the pylon there were four bronze figures of male and female workers, peasant and sailor, each 5.25m (17.22feet) in height. The whole composition was located on a granite stylobate.