List of statues of Vladimir Lenin

Ethiopia

• Meskel Square, Addis Ababa. The first Lenin statue in Africa, this monument was constructed in October 1983.^[1] The statue was toppled with the fall of the Derg government in 1991.^[2]

Cuba

• Havana
  • Monumento a Lenin, in Parque Lenin
  • Colina Lenin in Regla
• Santa Cruz del Norte - in a petroleum plant

United States

• Las Vegas - outside Red Square Restaurant, Mandalay Bay Hotel - Headless
• New York City - 1994 to 2016 on top of the Red Square apartment building, E. Houston St. in the East Village.^[3] Moved to Norfolk St. in 2016, half-block south.^[4]
• Seattle - Fremont neighborhood (See Statue of Lenin (Seattle))

Venezuela

• Caracas - Lenin bust, unveiled at 100th anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution

Armenia

• Yerevan - stood in Republic Square until 1991

Azerbaijan

• Baku - the central monument was in front of the Government House, but was removed during the mass uprisings of 1990

India

• Kolkata - at the mouth of Lenin Sarani in Esplanade
• Vijayawada
• New Delhi
  • Nehru Park, Delhi, Chanakyapuri - A life-size statue was erected on 1 November 1987 during the 70th anniversary of October Revolution. It was unveiled by then Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, Indian Prime-minister Rajiv Gandhi and his wife Sonia Gandhi. Every year on 22 April members of the Communist Party of India and other Left-oriented political parties visit the place to commemorate Lenin's birthday.^[6]
  • AKG Bhawan - A large bust of Lenin is located in the headquarters of the Communist Party of India in New Delhi. The white bust is installed right in front of the bust of A. K. Gopalan. The bust was a gift from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Before its final installation in the year 2010 it remained isolated in the Headquarters' backyard for several years.
• Belonia, Tripura - A statue of Lenin was installed at Cege Square in 2013. Within days of winning the Tripura Legislative Assembly election, 2018, supporters of the victorious Bharatiya Janata Party bulldozed the statue.^[7]
• Sabroom, Tripura - Another such statue was erected by the Communist Party of India - ruled state until their electoral defeat by the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2018, when it was razed to the ground by supporters of the victorious party.^[8]

Kazakhstan

• Baikonur - located in the central square of the city
• Almaty
• Karaganda
• Semey

Kyrgyzstan

Nearly every city and village in the country has a Lenin statue, usually located in the central square. The one in Bishkek was removed from the central square and is now located behind the national museum.

Mongolia

In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; removed on 14 October 2012^[9]

• Ulaanbaatar - in front of Ulaanbaatar Hotel and in close proximity to the Mongolian People's Party headquarters (removed on October 14, 2012). In a speech during the removal ceremony, Mayor Erdeniin Bat-Üül denounced Lenin and his fellow communists as "murderers".^[9]

Tajikistan

• Dushanbe - the monument in central Freedom Square was replaced by a monument of Ismoil Somoni, while a second in Central Park was removed and replaced by a statue of Rudaki, Khujand, Nurak, Faizobod

Turkmenistan

• Ashgabat - erected in 1927 in the heart of the city

Uzbekistan

• Tashkent - dismantled in 1991, replaced with a globe, featuring a geographic map of Uzbekistan.

Vietnam

• Hanoi - Dien Bien Phu Street, adjacent to the Vietnamese Army museum

Belarus

Bulgaria

• Razlog Existing
• Sofia - in Lenin Square (now St Nedelya Square), installed in 1966 and pulled down in January 1991;^[10] the site is now occupied by the Statue of Sveta Sofia

Czech Republic

• Vítězné náměstí (formerly náměstí Říjnové Revoluce) - in the Dejvice quarter of Prague, pulled down in 1990; a war memorial now stands on the site^[11]

Denmark

• Worker's Museum, Copenhagen - relocated from Hørsholm where it stood from 1986 until 1996

Estonia

• Jõhvi - 1953–1991, sculptors Enn Roos, Arseni Mölder, Signe Mölder^[12]
• Kohtla-Järve - 1950–1992, copy of statue in Jõhvi
• Kallaste - 1988–19??
• Narva - 1957–1993, sculptor Olav Männi (a statue is still present inside Narva Castle)
• Pärnu
  • 1950s–1981
  • 1981–1990, sculptor Matti Varik created a replica of a monument built in Kotka in 1979
• Tallinn - 1950–1991, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky
• Tartu
  • 1949–1952 sitting Lenin (ferroconcrete), sculptor Sergey Merkurov
  • 1952–1990 standing Lenin bronze, height 3.5 m, weight 3.5 tons; sculptors August Vomm, Garibald Pommer, Ferdi Sannamaes^[12]

Finland

• Kotka - at Lenin park
• Turku - near the art museum

France

• Montpellier
• Paris

Georgia

• Tbilisi - monument stood until 1991 in Freedom Square (Tavisuplebis Moedani)

Germany

Memorial to Lenin in East Berlin, 1977; in the background the Bunkerberg in Volkspark Friedrichshain

• Berlin - created in 1970 by Nikolai Tomski in granite, 19 m, at Leninplatz, removed in 1992 and buried outside Berlin. There is a stained glass window of Lenin in the Old Library on Bebelplatz. One statue of Lenin (approximately 2:1) is still standing in Nobelstraße 66 in the yard of a removal company.
• Potsdam - Bust of Lenin placed in the Volkspark
• Schwerin - Statue of Lenin, made by the Estonian sculptor Jaak Soans and inaugurated on 22 June 1985. Even nowadays this monument is still causing heated debates among politicians, citizen and historians, who, divided in supporters and detractors, continue arguing about its future.

Greece

• Athens - front of the Headquarters building of the Communist Party of Greece

Hungary

• Budapest — created in 1965 by Patzáy Pál, in City Park. In 1989, the huge statue was lifted off its red granite pedestal (later demolished), and carried away “for restoration”; in 1991, it was moved to Memento Park. Timewheel now stands on the former site.^[13]
• Before 1990, every county seat and industrial town had their Lenin statues. Many smaller settlements had their own, too. In 1990 or shortly afterwards, all Lenins were quickly removed.

Italy

• Cavriago - at Piazza Lenin (Italian for Lenin Square), near Reggio Emilia
• Capri - in the Gardens of Augustus

Latvia

• Cēsis - statue unveiled on November 7, 1959, sculptor Karlis Jansons; removed on October 17, 1990
• Riga - removed on August 25, 1991.

Lithuania

All statues were taken down in 1991 or soon after, most eventually winding up in Grutas Park. They were erected during the Soviet period and stood, among other places, in Vilnius (at least two statues, one of them together with Lithuanian communist leader Kapsukas), Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Jonava, Druskininkai, and Jurbarkas (the Jurbarkas Lenin is now part of an installation in Europos Parkas park in Vilnius).

• Druskininkai - 1981-1991, sculptor N.Petrulis
• Jonava - 1984-1991, sculptor K.Bogdanas
• Kaunas - 1970-1991, sculptor N.Petrulis
• Klaipėda - 1976-1991, sculptor G.Jokubonis
• Palanga - 1977-1991, sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich
• Panevėžys - 1983-1991, sculptor G. Jokubonis
• Šiauliai - 1970-1991, sculptors A. Toleikis and D. Lukosevicius
• Vilnius
  • 1952-1991, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky
  • 1979-1991, "Lenin and Kapsukas in Poronino", sculptor K. Bogdanas

Moldova

The statue behind a podium during a ceremony in 1976 in Chisinau (then Kishinev)

• Chișinău - at the Moldexpo site
• Rîbnița (Transistria) - main square
• In the centre of Comrat, in the autonomous region of Gagauzia
• unrecognised state of Transnistria
  • Tiraspol - outside the Parliament and City Soviet building
  • Various other towns and villages in Transnistria have Lenin busts and statues in their centres

Netherlands

• Enschede - in front of the TwentseWelle Museum. It was placed in the context of an exhibition about the GDR.^[14]

Norway

• Svalbard - two Russian settlements in Svalbard have Lenin statues, Barentsburg and Pyramiden

Poland

Statue in underground of Party's House in Warszawa, 2011

Statue in Poronin, near Lenin's Museum, 1960s

Statue in the museum in Kozłówka, moved from Poronin, 2008

• Warsaw - in Party's House, used in Palace of Culture and Science during Congress of the Polish United Workers Party, in 2014 moved to the museum in Kozłówka^[15]
• Kraków - in Nowa Huta district, the biggest in Poland, pulled down in December 1989,^[16][17] in 1992 moved to High Chaparral Theme Park in Sweden
• Kraków - in Nowa Huta district, in the area Vladimir Lenin Steelwork (currently Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks), removed in 1990^[18]
• Kraków - with Joseph Stalin, in Strzelecki Park, removed in 1957^[19]
• Gdańsk - in Gdańsk Shipyard (ex Lenin Shipyard), hid in 1990, destroyed in 1991, in 1999 made a copy in the museum of "Solidarity" in Gdańsk Shipyard^[20][21]
• Poronin - pulled down in 1990, since 1999 in the museum in Kozłówka^[22]
• Poronin - set up in 2014 on private area, damaged in 2015^[23][24]
• Słubice - removed after 1989^[25]
• Mysłowice - in Wesoła district, in the area Coal Mine "Lenin" (currently Coal Mine "Wesoła"), pulled down in 1990^[26]
• Legnica - ex headquarters Northern Group of Forces of the Soviet Army, moved to Ulyanovsk in 1993^{[27][28][29][30]}
• Legnica - in Legnica Airport, ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed after 1992^[31][32]
• Legnica - ex military unit of the Soviet Army, damaged after 1992^[33][34][35]
• Pstrąże - ex military unit of the Soviet Army, damaged after 1992^[36]
• Borne Sulinowo - ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed ca. 1992^[37][38]
• Brzeg - ex school in military unit of the Soviet Army, removed ca. 1992^[39]
• Stargard - in Kluczewo district, ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed ca. 1992^[40][41]
• Stargard - in Burzykowo district, ex military unit of the Soviet Army, damaged after 1992,^[42][43] removed in 2013^[44]
• Kołobrzeg - in Podczele district, leisure centre "Bukowina", head separately, damaged after 1992, before in military unit of the Soviet Army^[45][46]
• Oława - ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed ca. 1992^[47]
• Swoboda - set up in 1954 in front of the school, moved after 1990 to building ex school^[48][49][50]
• Poznań - in club and café Proletaryat, set up in 2004^[51][52]
• Maczków - on the balcony of a private building ^[53][54][55]

In 1939-1941 after attack the Red Army statues of Lenin were in: Sokółka,^[56] Augustów, Kolno, Suwałki, Białystok (pulled down in June 1941), Łomża, Choroszcz (3x),^[57] Brańsk, Bielsk Podlaski, Jedwabne,^[58][59] Siemiatycze,^[60] Śniadowo, Czyżewo (pulled down 5 July 1941),^[61] Zaręby Kościelne,^[62] Zambrów,^[63] Przemyśl, Lubaczów, Łapy, Zabłudów^[64] etc.

Romania

• Bucharest - built in front of Casa Presei Libere in April 1960, pulled down in March 1990

Russia

In the Soviet Union, many cities had statues and monuments of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the revolutionary and leader of the Russian SFSR, better known by the nom de plume Vladimir Lenin. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, many of them were destroyed without the consent of their creators. This happened even earlier in the European post-Communist states and in the Baltic states. However, in many of the former Soviet Republics (namely Russia, Belarus and Ukraine) many remain, and some new ones have been erected.^[65]

• Akhtubinsk - a monument installed in the town center, VI Lenin
• Almetyevsk - a monument installed in the center of the city on Lenin Square
• Arzamas - two monuments in the city, in the Cathedral Square and Peace Square
• Arkhangelsk - Only a few remain of the city's many monuments. The monument in the square is the last major Lenin monument to be established in the Soviet Union, in 1988. Others stand in Solombala on the Square, Terekhina on the street, and Gagarin in the yard.
• Astrakhan - monument installed in the square, VI Lenin
• Bakhchysarai (disputed Crimea)
• Balakovo - Saratov region, two monuments
• Barnaul - three on the main avenue, and one in Upland Park. Because of the drapery which is present in the composition of the monument near the street Anatolia, a Lonely Planet guide to Russia has called the monument "Lenin Toreador".
• Belgorod - at Cathedral Square (the former Revolution Square), in Lenin Park, near the now-current cinema "Falcon", and a bust in the Belgorod Dairy Plant (BMP)
• Berezniki - Lenin Square (about Palace of Culture, Lenin)
• Bogoroditsk - town center
• Boksitogorsk - central square (Lenin Square)
• Dubna - 25 m, the second tallest; 15 m statue on a 10 m pedestal
• Dedovsk - a small monument is located opposite the branch of RSCU in the street of Gagarin
• Dimitrovgrad - the town square - the square of the Soviets. A bust is located within the NCC, Slavsky.
• Dmitry - installed in the central square of the historic district
• Dubna - the world's second largest statue of Lenin lies in the vicinity of the "Big Volga". Sculptor SD Merkurov, height 25 m (with pedestal 37 m), weight 540 tons. The monument was erected in 1937 on the banks of the Volga near the beginning of the Moscow Canal. On the other bank was a monument to Stalin. After Stalin's death the monument was blown up, but the pedestal remained.
• Dudinka - monument in front of the House of Culture
• Dyatkovo - on Lenin Square in the town center, next to buildings authorities
• Dzerzhinsk - in Lenin Square. The authors of the improvement and development area are the architects Androsova GD and Sinyavsky EA. Sculptor Nelyubin BS; opened for the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin in 1970.
• Ekaterinburg - main monument in front of City Hall in Lenin Square since 1905; secondary monuments placed at the entrance of the Sverdlovsk Tools Factory Street
• Gelendzhik - monument near the boarding house "Caucasus", st. Mayachnaya
  • The working village Settlement on Lenin Street has a monument, built in contemporary Russia (established November 7, 2006). Sculptor V. Fetisov
• Izhevsk - monument established in 1958 at the National Library of the Udmurt Republic, sculptor PP Yatsynova and architect LN Kulaga, in bronze and granite
• Ishimbay - 1966, the square on the street gutter
• Kazan
  • monument standing 1930-1951, in the square and then park in the former Theatre (now Liberty) Square
  • the new statue with bleachers installed in 1954 at what was then the main Freedom Square
  • monument to young Vladimir Ulyanov (like Moscow) set in 1954 at University Park on the street Kremlin
  • a statue of Lenin stands in front of the Lenin House of Culture in Sotsgorod
• Kaliningrad - major monument to Lenin by the sculptor VB Topuridze installed at Victory Square in 1958. In 2005, during the reconstruction of the area, the monument was removed allegedly temporarily, for the restoration, but after the reconstruction the monument was not returned. Mayor of Kaliningrad Yuri Savenko put forward the idea of creating the city's Lenin Square, where he could transfer the monument.
• Kaluga - statue in front of the regional administration in the area of old trades that previously had the name Lenin
• Kamensk Shakhtinsky - a monument to Lenin in Kamensk Shakhtinsky square, at the intersection of the Avenue of Karl Marx and Pushkin Street, next to the district council Kamensky district, Rostov region
• Kemerovo - Lenin monument in the Square of the Soviets. One night in 1993 local businessmen made an unsuccessful attempt to demolish the monument.
• Prokopyevsk - statue was destroyed by a drunk man attempting to take a selfie
• Kimry - a monument placed in the town center
• Kirov - Theatre Square, XX Party Congress
• Kolomna - monument installed in the center of the square of the two revolutions
• Krasnodar
  • The main urban monument to Lenin, sculptor P. Sabsay, architect A Giants, opened in 1956 on the square in front of the Communist Party Regional Committee (now the Legislative Assembly of Krasnodar Region - KYC), according to government decree of the RSFSR. At the end of July 2007 the monument was dismantled under the pretext of reconstruction of the architectural ensemble of the square before the Legislative Assembly. However, the restored monument to the city authorities moved on the forecourt, in front of the Legislative Assembly and a monument to Catherine II. Moving the monument prompted an outcry from the townspeople: according to law enforcement agencies, the Communists and other patriotic organizations organized picket lines several times in front of the Legislative Assembly demanding the return of the monument to its place.
  • The oldest statue of Lenin in Krasnodar (sculptor K. Dietrich) is in the park to VI Lenin, on the street Vishnyakova. The monument was built in 1925, a year after the death of the Soviet leader. A decision on its creation was accepted 23 January 1924 at a meeting of workers of Krasnodar. It was funded by public donations.
• Krasnoturinsk - monument installed in front of the city administration in the city centre
• Krasnoyarsk - statue on Revolution Square in the city centre
  

  Revolution Square Krasnoyarsk
• Krasnoznamensk (Moscow region) - set before the House of Culture (house of the garrison officers)
• Kursk - monument installed in front of the city administration in the city centre
• Moscow - There are over 82 Lenin monuments in Moscow,^[66][67] including:
  • large monument in downtown Kaluzhskaya Square, opposite the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice
  • statue at the All-Russian Exhibition Center, Ostankinsky District
  • sitting Lenin in Tverskaya Square, opposite the Residence of the Mayor of Moscow
  • sitting Lenin at the Park of the December Uprising
• Saint-Petersburg - Lenin giving a speech from an armored car monument is present in the city on Ploshchad Lenina (Lenin Square) next to Finland Railway Station
• Samara - Statue of Lenin on Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square) in the old part of the city.
• Sevastopol (disputed Crimea)
• Simferopol (capital of disputed Crimea)
• Tambov - Lenin statue in Lenin Square, in the centre of the city.
• Veliky Novgorod - two monuments: in the Sofia area (established in April 1928, lost by war, restored in 1958) and in Street Trading Ivanskoy side
• Vladikavkaz (sculptor ZI Azgur, architect G. Zakharov) is open on Lenin Square in front of the Russian Drama Theatre. Vakhtangov in 1957. In 1993, twice blown up and subsequently restored.
• Volgograd (27 m, the tallest).now in five sites:
  • «Great Lenin" - Liberty Square (the intersection of Victory Avenue and the streets of the World)
  • «Little Lenin" - the Children's park named after Alexander Pushkin.
  • A monument in the main building of the Volgograd State Technical University.
  • 2 monuments in car-repair factory.
  • Lenin monument at the entrance of the Volga-Don channel - set in the Krasnoarmeysk area (height pedestal) - 30 meters, the sculpture - 27 meters. Sculptor - EV Vucetich. listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the highest monument of a man who lived reality. Earlier, on the same pedestal, there was a monument to Stalin.
  • In the central region on Lenin Square on the 90th anniversary of the monument to Lenin. Sculptor - EV Vucetic.
  • In the central region, in the park opposite the building of regional administration.
  • The Post Office building is a statue of Lenin.
• Volga:
  • Monument to Lenin Square.
• Vyborg:
  • A monument in the town square - Red (set in 1957)
  • The bust in the house-museum of Lenin
• Yakutsk - Lenin statue in Lenin Square, in the centre of the city.
• Yalta (disputed Crimea)
• Yefremov - a park near the city administration. Also in the park near the police building.
• Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk region) - Lenin Square opposite the Palace of Culture. There was also the now dismantled joint statue of Lenin and Stalin.

Slovakia

• Poprad - Built in 1981 (see Statue of Lenin, Seattle)

Spain

• Bust at Otxarkoaga district of Bilbao, erected without approval from the authorities.

Sweden

• Vittsjö, a small town in southern Sweden.^[68] The statue is privately owned by Calevi Hämäläinen.

United Kingdom

• London, Islington Museum, 245 St John Street, Islington. Bust by Lubetkin commissioned by the UK Government during the war in tribute to the efforts of the Soviet Union. It was placed in Holford Square (briefly Lenin's home when he lived in London) and unveiled in 1942. It was a supposed focal point of a new housing development to be named 'Lenin Court' but the bust became a target of fascist sympathisers and was frequently daubed with anti-Communist and anti-semitic messages. Lubetkin had the bust removed and when the housing development was completed in the late 1940s, it was renamed 'Bevin Court'. The bust was displayed in Islington Town Hall for many years and is now on permanent display in the museum.
• Belfast - The Kremlin Bar, a gay bar, has a statue of Lenin welcoming partygoers over the main entrance.^[69]

Ukraine

Kiev, Ukraine. It was torn down on 8 December 2013 during the Euromaidan

In 1991 Ukraine had 5,500 Lenin monuments.^[70]

In Ukraine more than 500 statues of Lenin were dismantled between February 2014 and mid-April 2015, after which nearly 1,700 remained standing.^[71] On 15 May 2015 President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a bill into law that set a six-month deadline for the removal of the country's communist monuments.^[72] By December 2015 Lenin monuments 1,300 were still standing (in Ukraine).^[70]

Prior to Ukraine's Euromaidan, Lenin monuments and other Soviet-era monuments were already being removed.^[73][74] However, in 2008, the 139th anniversary of Lenin, two new Lenin monuments were erected in Luhansk Oblast.^[65]