Monument of the Great October Revolution explained

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]

Description

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.

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2015/05/15/7068057/ Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization
  2. Susman, Tina, "Ukrainians Prepare to Pull Down Statue of 'Bloodstained' Lenin," AP Online, August 30, 1991."
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=BNUtdVrw6lIC&dq=16+July+1991+Ukrainian+state+sovereignty.&pg=PA722 A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples