List of People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments in Croatia explained

There were 1,322 individuals who were decorated by the Order of the People's hero of Yugoslavia between 1942 and 1973. Many busts and memorials were built in honor of each People's hero. Each of them usually had a bust in his birthplace or at the place of his death. Most of these monuments are built in figurative style, but some of them were completely abstract, for example, monument of Ivo Lola Ribar, built at Glamoč field in 1962.

Large number of People's heroes' busts and monuments in Dalmatia, Slavonia and central Croatia were removed from public places or destroyed during the 1990s as a part of revisionism process. However, monuments of People's heroes are mostly intact in Istria, Hrvatsko Primorje and Hrvatsko Zagorje.

Monument list

ImageNameLocationNotes
Monument of Josip Broz TitoKumrovecDesigned by Antun Augustinčić, built in 1947. Dedicated to Josip Broz Tito, leader of the People's liberation struggle, a triple People's hero of Yugoslavia and the president of SFR Yugoslavia (1953–1980)
Monument of Rade KončarZagrebDesigned by Vanja Radauš. Dedicated to Rade Končar, leader of the Communist party of Croatia (1940–1941) and one of the organizers of the People's liberation struggle in Croatia in 1941.
Bust of Ivo Lola RibarIlokDedicated to Ivo Lola Ribar, main secretary of Alliance of the communist youth of Yugoslavia and member of Central Committee of Communist party of Yugoslavia.
Busts of Zdenka and Rajka BakovićZagrebRajka Baković and Zdenka were both active in the antifascist struggle in Zagreb, but only Rajka was decorated by the Order of People's hero.
Monument of Većeslav HoljevacZagrebDesigned by Stjepan Gračan, built in 1994.
Monument of Joakim RakovacPoreč
Bust of Nikola Car - CrniCrikvenica
Bust ofVitomir ŠirolaViškovo
Bust of Matteo Benussi - CioRovinj
Bust of Giuseppe Budicin - PinoRovinj
Bust of Joža VlahovićZagreb
Bust of Većeslav HoljevacKarlovac
Bust of Vitomir ŠirolaRijeka
Bust ofVilim GaljerĐurđevac
Monument of Moša PijadeZagrebDesigned by Antun Augustinčić.
Bust ofViktor BubanjRijeka
Bust of Bogoljub Vukajlović LalaBobota
Bust of Juraj KalcPula
Bust of Ivan Marinković SlavkoCrikvenica
Bust of Slobodan Bajić PajaBanovci
Memorial tomb with bust of Jozo Lozovina MosorSeget DonjiDesigned by Ivan and Tonči Martinić, built in 1956. Dedicated to Jozo Lozovina Mosor, leader of the antifascist uprising in the Trogir area. Destroyed by explosive 1991.
Bust of Jozo Lozovina MosorTrogirDesigned by Antun Augustinčić, built in 1956. Dedicated to Jozo Lozovina Mosor, leader of the antifascist uprising in the Trogir area. Destiny unknown.
Bust of Jozo Lozovina MosorTrogirDesigned by Ivan Lončar Žan, built in 1986. Dedicated to Jozo Lozovina Mosor, leader of the antifascist uprising in the Trogir area. Destiny unknown.

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