The first monuments of V.I. Lenin. Lenin's largest monument in the world

This monument depicting Lenin in full growth distinguished himself in an artistic aspect, is unique and not similar to typical monuments that can be found in other cities.

On a memorable board installed next to the monument is: "The world's first monument in V. I. Lenin. Opened on January 22, 1924, "on the reverse side -" The author of the monument worker Glukhovka F. P. Kuznetsov ".

At the very beginning of the monument, the inscription is knocked out: "More confidence in the forces of the working class. We must ensure that every worker can manage the state. "

There is a monument on the territory of Glukhovaya manufactory, access to it is open from 11.00 to 15.00. More accurate location can be found in the article "The world's first monument to Lenin."

In Moscow, Noginsk is the world's first monument to Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin).

The leader of the city proletariat conceived as a promised gift, he became the first monument on the fatal coincidence - it was opened on January 22, 1924, the day after the death of Lenin.

It happened that the world's first sculptural Lenin is not at all in Ulyanovsk, not in St. Petersburg and not in Moscow, but in Noginsk, where Lenin real never happened in his life. And from all residents of the city - at the time of the Bogorodsk - he was seen by a few.

In 1920, when the famous textile production, based in Bogorodsk, Morozov, began to bend, and workers - starve, it was decided to write Lenin. Glukhovtsy (Manufactory is in the former village of Glukhow - it became part of the city, but so far they say "on Glukhow, "bearing in mind a certain area) asked to equate their missions to Moscow. For this, there were good reasons: by the time on the manufactory, there was an unprecedented number of workers - 12 thousand. It was possible to compare the Gluchuk only with Nikolskaya manufactory in Orekhovo-Zuyevo, but after the famous Morozovka strike was a special attitude.

The petition of the Glukhov workers was satisfied. - Deliveries of raw materials, the supply of electricity resumed, the supply of products was really equal to Moscow, "says Tatyana Avinnikov, an employee of the Noginsky Museum and Exhibition Center. - It was decided to build a tram line for the carriage of workers.

And in 1922, the workers of the Glow turned to the government to name the plant with the name of Lenin.

And in 1923 the story happened, which entered all Lenin's lives. On November 2, a delegation went from Bogorodsk to Gorki - four workers of the Glukhovaya manufactory and two, so to speak, from the leadership. With you, they were carrying the seedlings of Cherry - "a real proletarian gift, expressed in several copies of the" Spanish Cherry "grown in the Orangers of the factory with the corollars of workers", as followed from the accompanying note.

On November 2, 1923, Glukhovets were visited by Vladimir Ilyich in Gorki. The Delegation brought V. I. Lenin as a gift Saplings of Cherry, as well as a letter from Glukhovsky Textiles. It had such lines: "Tov. Lenin, the great leader of the working world, teacher and comrade. You, whose name, as a banner, like a guide star with love is kept in the heart of not only every member of the RCP (b), not only every member of the RKSM, but also every worker and peasant. You need us ... in days of work, in the days of grief, in days of joy ... ".

When the Glukhovets returned home, then on the manufactory, of course, they collected a meeting on this occasion.

Then it was decided to create a sculpture of Lenin.

The author chose Fyodor Kuznetsov, the malyara decorator of the factory club. It is now the "factory club" sounds unpervently, and at that time, the Glukhovsky cultural culture in the same time also included its own dramatic theater and art school. In this school, Kuznetsov worked almost all his life, although he did not have art education - the author of the first monument to Lenin was self-taught.

It is even more interesting that, unlike Matthew Harlamov, the author of the first St. Petersburg monument to Lenin, who twice saw Ilyich, Fyodor Kuznetsov knew about him only a mustache. "The Kuznetsov really never saw Lenin," says Tatyana Avinnikov. - As part of the delegation, which went to the slides, was Kuznetsov, but it is a single-fap.

With photos then, you know, it was poor, so Fedor Kuznetsov created a sculpture mainly in stories - as a photorobid is now.

By the way, he subsequently made the sculpture of the famous sailor of Zheleznyak, but Anatoly Zheleznyakova, who worked on our manuff, he probably knew personally.

The opening was appointed on the 22nd anniversary of the bloody Sunday.

In the morning, despite the 30-degree frost, the people gathered at the rally, not yet knowing that the day before Lenin died.

I decided to collect all the monuments of Lenin, which I saw. In what kind of city I confidently photograph Ilyich. Here is Lenin standing in Vyshny Volochka. The photo is old, in the wolf I was in 2008. I tried to pick up in chronological order. However, this is not the first Ilyich in my collection, but I can't find Ryazansky.

Lenin in Dubna. The monument was established in 1937. The height of the figure is 15 meters, with the pedestal - 26. Exactly opposite the other shore stood a huge Stalin. But now only the pedestal remained from the second leader, the monument was blown up in the 60s. On one of the photos near the monument you can see human figures, you can estimate the dimensions. According to my calculation, the height is about twenty meters somewhere. This is one of the largest monuments in the world of Lenin!

Serpukhov. Lenin Square.

Moscow, VDNH. Sculpture installed in 1954.

Volgograd, Lenin Square. Sculptor - Vuchetich. The one who created the monuments of the motherland-mother in Volgograd and Kiev, a monument to the liberator in Berlin, a monument to Lenin on the Volga-Don Canal and the once demolished monument to Stalin. He is the creator of the monument to Dzerzhinsky, which was installed in Moscow on the Square of the same name (now Lubyanskaya) opposite the KGB building (now FSB).

Volgograd, Krasnoarmeysky district. The very beginning of the Volga-Don shipping channel named after Lenin. The monument is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. The height of the pedestal is 30 meters, sculptures - 27 meters. Sculptor Guess who? That's right.

Borovsk, Lenin Square

The village of Krasnoman (Vyshnevolotsky district, Tver region). It costs himself in a tank. Only with his face he had something happened. Then he was removed.

Moscow, Factory Vladimir Ilyich. The first is on the territory, the second - on the square in front of the passage.

Lipetsk, monument set in the park. Initially, the park was called the noble or top, then it was renamed the children. In 1970, Lenin's monument was established and the park became known as Pioneer. In 2006, the park returned the historical name. The park has attractions, and this part continues to call a children's park.

Kostroma. If you look closely, it can be seen that the stand and sculpture are different in styles. The fact is that the figure is established on the pedestal, which was intended for the monument dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the reign of the house of Romanov. But the first world began, then the revolution and on this all ended.

Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region

Ufa. Monument was established in 1967. Ilicich looks at the city council. In modern interpretation of the office, the administration of the urban district of the city of Ufa of the Republic of Bashkortostan is called.

Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad region

Ozersk, Kaliningrad region

Pravdinsk, Kaliningrad region

Gusev, Kaliningrad region. You can only consider it from behind. From the side of the square it is not visible due to trees.

Kirzhach. The main square of the city is Soviet.

Tula, Lenin Square. Monument was established in 1983. For his back Tula White House - the city administration.

Gatchina (Leningrad region). 1958. Behind him Lenin Sadik and the city administration.

Rybinsk. In any weather Ilyich in a coat and cap! And the clothing of the 1950 sample. Previously, this pedestal was the statue of Emperor Alexander II. Then he was replaced with a sickle and hammer. After Lenin's head was installed, then she was removed. Made a standard leader of the world proletariat with a gesture pointing to a bright future. Something someone has not arranged again, now it is so dressed. Monument is unique. But the place is some kind of special. The statue is going to remove again.

In Myshkin, too, there is Lenin. Building such a chunky.

Smolensk. Sculpture installed in 1967. Behind Ilyich - Administration of the Smolensk region.

Zelenogorsk (Leningrad region). Initially, the sculpture was established at the entrance to Leningrad. In connection with the reconstruction of the territory and the construction of the monument, heroic defenders of Leningrad in 1968, the monument to Lenin was postponed to Zelenogorsk. And until 1950, Stalin stood at this place.

Priozersk (Leningrad region). Monument was established in 1966. Opposite Peter I, look at each other.

Alexandrov. The monument to Lenin was solemnly opened in 1967, a week before the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. The leader's figure stands on Soviet Square in front of the courthouse.

Kolchugino (Vladimir region). Monument near school number 1 on Friendship Street. Lenin with a girl.

Kolchugino (Vladimir region). Before the building of the city administration, a monument to Lenin number two.

While I told about the cruise on T / X "Alexander Suvorov" I very often recalled my collection of monuments to Lenin. And now I decided to show this my "mysterious" collection. I will not chat, the idea of \u200b\u200bcollecting such a collection appeared quite a long time ago, at the time of my study in the river technical school. During the passage of practice, I then noticed that in any Volga city to find a wine-waterpoint or a pitery establishment, it is enough to find a monument to Lenin and go in the direction that it shows and sooner or later the desired will be found. But you do not accept me for the terminal alcoholic, it's just observation.

I want to start with this monument Lenin has a big Volga's pier on the Moscow channel.

Monument to Lenin, standing at the entrance to the Gateway No. 1 of the Moscow-Volga Channel - the second in height of the monument to Lenin, and perhaps generally the person who lives ever. The monument is "the champion" is located in Volgograd (the height of the pedestal is 30 meters, sculptures - 27 meters) and is listed in the Book of Records Guinies as the highest monument to a really living person. Dubnensky Monument is very slightly less: height - 25 m (along with a pedestal - 37 m), weight - 540 tons. When you stand next to him, all these meters and tons feel well
The monument meets ships entering the last Gateway of the Moscow Volga Channel, after which they will finally go to the Volga. Usually, the ships pass this place early in the morning when the passengers are still sleeping. Monument - the peer of the canal, was built in 1937, the sculptor of Mercurov.
First, the monuments were two: in front of Lenin stood the same size Stalin. In 1961, Stalin decided to dismantle, but failed to find the drawings necessary for disassembly. Then he was simply blew up. As a result of the explosion on the tunnel, which passes under the channel them. Moscow and is the main road connecting the right-bank and left bank of the Dubna, the crack went, and the dam of the Ivankovskaya HPP, according to unconfirmed observations of the inhabitants, was pretty shone. Now from Stalin, only a pedestal remained, from the steps of which teenagers bathe. A part of the wreckage fell into the water, so the people still have a legend of the leader resting at the bottom of the head.
Next to the monument to Lenin a good park and beautiful views of the Moscow Sea. This is a place, although it is in the city feature, but is distant from the residential areas, so there is usually low. Nevertheless, visit it.

Next I can not not mark monument to Lenin in Rybinsk

Monument V.I. Lenin. The monument of the leader of the world proletariat is open on November 6, 1959. Sculptor Has Bulat Nukhekovich Askar Saryja. The monument is different from all famous images of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin). One of the few where the leader in winter clothes. Sculpture from bronze is installed on a red granite pedestal in the form of a truncated pyramid. The pedestal is made for another sculpture - the monument to Alexander II, in 1918 he was changed by a monument to work with a sickle and hammer, then Lenin's gypsum bust (1923), and then in 1934, Lenin's sculpture was installed in full growth with his right hand, as if indicating the right direction.

In the people, it is still called "Lenin in winter"

And now another monument with a highlight. Monument to Lenin in Kostroma

Monument to Lenin is located in the city park. Lenin. The huge figure of the leader towers over low buildings of the city and can be compared in height with nearby churches. A peculiar collision of eras can be traced not only in the height of "cult" buildings. An interesting fact is that in 1927, Lenin was watered for a pedestal prepared in 1913 for the monument dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the house of Romanov, but the construction of which, of course, was discontinued with the beginning of the revolution. The sketches of an unpriced monument are preserved, according to them, you can judge its sizes and beauty. The monument "The leader of the world proletariat" in Kostroma is one of the first monuments in the country. But for the majority of subsequent similar monuments, this is significant - primarily its size. Especially issued by a disproportionally large hand of the leader, indicating the "bright future" of the country.

Of course, it is best to look at this "miracle" from the Volga, more precisely from the board of the ship and then you can see in what non-exceptional pose it costs. For myself, I dubbed him "Lenin with Radiculitis" or "Lenin with Lumbago" - who is more like.

Well, since we were in Kostroma, it would be necessary to climb in the vicinity of Kostroma. To start a monument to Lenin in Sudislavl Kostroma region

Sudislavl - PGT, district center of the Kostroma region. Population of 5 thousand people. (2010). Known from 1360. The city was until 1925

Sudislavl is one of the "mushroom capitals" of Russia, the city flourished in mushroom trading to the revolution.

Here is such almost typical Ilyich, but ... Look where does he show hand? And he shows to the Transfiguration Cathedral of the Lord

I am still surprised at how such a monument could be bought in the country of advice, where the church was separated from the state. And here the direct anti-Sovetina - Lenin shows the temple on God.

Monument to Lenin in the Purchase of the Ivanovo Region

Here, Lenin for what was offended by his native Soviet power and stood back to her.

Monument to Lenin in the village of Tekhovaya Yaroslavl region.

The most ordinary typical monument, but read the sign on him behind his back "Milicia, please! Sick the guest", and Ilyich shows the hand in the opposite direction, they say "Cheshiki where came from"

Monument to Lenin in Orel (I apologize for quality, I had to shoot almost on the run)

Eagle is one of the first cities where the monument to Vladimir Ilyich was erected in his life. The opening of the first monument took place on November 7, 1920. At the entrance to the city boulevard (now pl.I.I. Lenin). All pre-war monuments died. February 22, 1949 On the square in front of the building of the regional drama theater (now the "Free Space" theater) held the opening of a new monumental monument to V.I. Lenin. The author of the project is a famous sculptor N.V.Tomsky attended his solemn opening. In 1961, the monument was postponed to the newly created central square, wearing the name V.I. Lenin. Pedestal from gray granite with bronze bas-relief was performed on the project of architect N.L. Golubovsky.

Monument V.I. Lenin on Soviet Square in Vyazma, established in 1981.

And of course, replenishment of the collection of monuments Lenin from the past cruise

He looks towards the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery.

But one hand is behind him behind him and the impression is that he scratches in one place yes even leaned forward

Please note that this monument is as if consisting of four parts: bust, body to a belt, legs to knees and legs below the knees. Why it happened to figure out failed.

Our excursion began from the monument to Lenin on theatrical Square. My collection is replenished. Lenin with such a gesture I have not yet seen anywhere. "And now humpbalan! I said, humpback"

Here is such Lenin, I was able to photograph near the building of the Volgograd City Administration

And of course, the raisin of Lenin Square - Lenin himself (the collection was replenished by one more)

Well, at all, looking at this Ilyich immediately remembered the old joke about his wife Hochlushka and her husband of Uzbek

"- And if I have hands in Boki, I wanted to do, I wanted to do with what eye you have a tubiteka"

Monument V.I. Lenin, installed on Square named after N. Lenin. Date of discovery on November 6, 1958. According to Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of May 11, 1957 No. 309. Authors of the Monument: Sculptor - Azgur Zair Isaakovich, Architect - Ananyev Vasily Mikhailovich

Basic description

The height of the sculpture is 5.6 m, the height of the pedestal is 6.2 m. The sculpture is made of bronze, cast on a stucco model. Press and stela (1.9 x 3,4) from the polished granite of gray-pink, from the Karelian island, with lead gasket. Details of the monument: Bronze wreath and letters. The first information about the establishment of the Monument V.I. Lenin refer to 1941 in the newspaper "Communist" of March 27, 1941. Information of the following content appeared: "Received a message from the art administration at the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR that the monument of the monument to the Astrakhan V.I. . Lenin. The District Arts Department is invited to outline the candidate of the sculptor and cutting the plan of the field for this construction. Project work should be completed in 1941. The construction of the monument is invited to start in 1942. "

One of the most delivering attractions of Astrakhan is neither a trite, a monument to Lenin. Unlike
most monuments Lenin Local Vladimir Ilyich stands in the atypical position for himself - a little hunted and removing his hand in his pocket. Let me remind you that in most cities Lenin stands, stretching his hand and pointing to her at the building of any administration there. Old-timers of the city explain such an atypical formulation in that through several houses in front of Lenin is the SIZO (in
the people are "White Swan") and an outstretched hand, usually indicating the path to the bright tomorrow, thus, it was unequivocally hinted that "everything will be there." It is rumored that the elongated hand first took place, but then someone whispered something, and the monument was covered with construction forests, and when they were removed, the hand was already in his pocket. So this is not the case, or not at all - it was not possible to figure out that it was unable.

Typical monument to Lenin in the city (Nizhny Novgorod region)

Another Lenin from Volgograd. Monument on the Square of the same name

In the background, the monument "Bnyk" is visible at the panorama building of the Stalingrad battle, as well as the semicircular colonnade on the reverse side of Pavlov's house.

Well, I managed to get to the Museon Park. Here are some Illichi from there. Although if you speak in justice, except Vladimir Ilyich, Leonid Ilyich was also there. But the latter is not the subject of my collection.

So, on one not a big patch, Already three Lenin gathered: one young and two older.

Let's start with the younger

Then there will be an older Ilyich. And even in less good shape

And this Ilyich Vajalya obviously from Veronica Mauritiyevna

Well, in conclusion Bust Lenin. I would call it "Lenin in Bourke", or "Hello from the Caucasus"

Monument to Lenin in Samara on the Revolution Square

Outstanding Soviet Sculptor People's Artist of the USSR, Winner of State Prizes of the USSR, Vice President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR M.G. Manizer (1891-1966) - the author of numerous monuments in the country and in the Volga region. There are his creations in the town of Kuibyshev (Samara).

The son of the artist, Matvey Henrikhovich graduated from the Mathematical Faculty of St. Petersburg University and St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. He warmly welcomed the Great October Socialist Revolution and one of the first responded to the appeal of V.I. Lenin to create a new monumental revolutionary propaganda in the country. The realization of this idea of \u200b\u200bthe sculptor dedicated, in essence, all his life.

Even at the beginning of the 20s. The manizer conceived to create a great leader of the proletariat in the bronze. To this hard work, he began living in Leningrad. Then there was a project of the monument to Vladimir Ilyich at the Finnish station, and then the statues of Lenin were manufactured, which were installed in Pushkin, Samara, Kirovograd, Khabarovsk.
The news of the planned sculptor manizer the monument of V.I. Lenin was greeted by Samarters with great joy. They collected funds for the manufacture of the monument, enthusiastically welcomed the maniser who came to the city for inspection and finishing a pedestal to install the monument.

The opening of the monument was held on November 7, 1927, on the day of the 10th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. On the square, which was a witness of revolutionary events, rallies, political demonstrations and manifestations, thousands of people came. Orchestras and loudspeakers thundered, flags fluttered. After the parade of the Samara garrison troops, the gate of the square was revealed. Signal rockets flew into the sky. Slised the skins. And from the monument fell white bedspread. The bronze figure V.I. Lenin on a high pedestal was discovered by the eyes of the gathered ... The monument took place a rally. They were attended by those who saw and knew Vladimir Ilyich on Samara, who met him in the following years. It was the first Soviet monument in Samara, a monument to the leader, and his discovery was noted with special solemnity.
Figure V. I. Lenin was established on the pedestal of polished pink Finnish granite. Sculpture depicts Vladimir Ilyich Soviet years, he is in a suit and cap, in one of its typical poses. From under the unbutton jacket, a vest is visible, Lenin's left hand holds over the jacket, right hand in pants pocket. The sculptor was happy when the sister of Lenin Lenin A.I. Yulianovoy-Elizarova heard the words: "I personally like this monument. Very similar and worthy of Ilyich's memory."

The monument stands there, where Lenin often had, near the building of the former Samara district court, where he worked as an assistant jury attorney, living in Samara. Not far from the monument, several Leninsky seats marked with memorial plaques. The monument is surrounded by a cozy shady stem. His foot is broken by a flower garden. At night, the sculpture on the pedestal is illuminated by spotlights.

Monument V. I. Lenin of the work of the sculptor M.G.Manniser by Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of August 30, 1960 was declared a monument of republican importance and taken under the protection of the state.

Monument to Lenin in Elabuga on Kazan Street

On November 7, 1925, a monument to V.I. Lenin in Elabuga was discovered. On the stone base, laid out by multi-colored stars in the form of a star, a high butter is installed, on the top of which the bust of the leader. Culp S.D. Merkurov.

Monument to Lenin in Elabuga on Bread Square

As the guide has told us, this monument to Lenin has its own story. The fact is that he had to go to Cuba as a gift, it seems to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lenin. But Cubans refused this gift. The reason for the failure is a monument too small, compared with the love and appreciation of the Cuban people, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. Later (in 1980), this monument was in Elabuga on the square named after Lenin, which in 2011 again gained its historical name - bread. The author of the monument is sculptor A.P.Kibalnikov.

And now in addition to the story sphynkx about the first monument to Lenin in Odessa I want to show one of the latter in the USSR of monuments Lenin. Installed in the city of Poshekhonye of the Yaroslavl region

This sculpture of Vladimir Ilyich is one of the latter in the Soviet Union. Local authorities were worth not small work to defend its installation in the late 80s. When such monumental manifestations of the respective leader of the world proletariat were no longer relevant.

The story with the advent of the monument to Lenin in Poshekhonye is similar to the legend. It all started in the late 80s. The former Gypsum Vladimir Ilich, established in 1938, was literally collapsed in front of his eyes. According to his rumors, he was somehow at night in a quiet with a pedestal and buried. That's just a place, no one even wants to report to torture. And then the local authorities appealed to Moscow to the Ministry of Culture. But it was impossible to reach the Poshechonians to the metropolitan officials. Helped the case. In August 1985, Valentina Tereshkova visited Valentina. At that time, Yaroslavl Chaika was headed by the Committee of Soviet women under the government of the country. To her with a request and decided to contact Antonina Mochalov, who was then the Secretary of the Poshekhon branch of the Communist Party. She told a high guest about the problem. Valentina Vladimirovna was penetrated and invited Antonina Petrovna to Moscow. There was already a question at the level of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Summin of the USSR. As a result, Lenin appeared in Poshekhonye not from plaster or cast iron, but from pink granite. But then the dashing 90s came. The local MUE housing and communal services was recognized bankrupt and so that it could somehow settle with debts it was decided to exhibit this monument to Lenin, the Alley of Glory and two bridges. The monument to Lenin was estimated at 400 thousand rubles and even found a buyer on him. But under the pressure of the public, bidding did not take place. And now this monument is in the very center of the city next to the Trinity Cathedral

And one more Lenin. This time from the coal.
It is in a small seamboard on the Rybinsk highway next to the "Seagull" museum and, I suspect that next to the factor's passage. I rented him already in dotmakes, so sorry for quality and angles. Ilyich here the most ordinary is typical, but there is its own charm

Ilyich from Yoshkar-Ola.

In the center of Yoshkar-Ola, before the Mari National Theater of the Drama named after M.Shketan, there is a monument in V.I. Lenin. The pedestal of the monument is made of granite. On the pedestal - the bronze figure of the leader of the world proletariat. The height of the monument with the pedestal is 11 meters. Ilyich's gaze is directed away, his figure, frozen in confident movement, is full of spiritual forces, human simplicity.

Named V.I. Lenin is associated with the emergence of the state form of the existence of the Mari people. On November 4, 1920, V.I. Lenin and M.I. Kalinin signed the decree "On the formation of the Autonomous Region of the Mari People", and the Decree of November 25, the city of Krasnokshaysk was declared the administrative center of the Mari Autonomous Region.

The opening of the Monument V.I. Lenin in Yoshkar-Ola was held on November 6, 1966. In honor of the significant event on the central square of the city, a crowded rally of workers Yoshkar-Ola and representatives of the republics of the republic took place. In connection with the opening of the monument, the leader of the Central Square began to be called an area of \u200b\u200bV.I. Lenin, and Institutskaya Street was renamed Leninsky Prospect.\u003e

The creators of the monument - sculptor MG Manizer, architect I.E. Rogin and the team of the Leningrad Plant "Monumentskulpture" - were awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Mari ASSR.

And in Central Park of Culture and Rest Yoshkar-Ola, there is such Lenin

It so happened that almost all week was snow in the city, and therefore Ilyich turned out with a "fur collar". He used to stand on the central alley, but the field of how in the city there was a sculptural composition "Tree of Life" Lenin moved a little to the side and settled on a small square, as always showing the road to a bright future. That's just this bright future - the eternal flame on the memorial dedicated to the thirtieth anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

And I photographed this Lenin during a recent business trip to Nizhny Novgorod. It is worth it At the central passing plant of the Worky Glass Plant

Just yesterday (May 31) I had a chance to visit the village of Sokolsky Nizhny Novgorod region. On the central square of the city, on the shore of the Gorky reservoir, such a monument is set by Lenin

Lenin from Kaliningrad

In 1958, on one of the central squares - Victory Square. The author of this monument is the sculptor V.B.Topuridze. In 2004, the reconstruction of the area began. Behind Ilyich was supposed to grow a new Orthodox church and such a neighborhood seemed to the authorities inappropriate. The monument was dismantled and more than two years sent to one of the private workshops. At this time, the Graduals found a new place for the monument. And in the spring of 2007, accurate by April 22 (Lenin's Day) The monument took its new place at the city's art house. Let's look at him

Lenin in Baltiysk (Kaliningrad region)

At the very beginning of Lenin Avenue, the building of the Baltic urban district administration, a monument to the founder and the first leader of the Soviet state Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924) was established at the granite pedestal. Its authors, Ukrainian sculptors whose names are unfortunately unknown, managed not only to transfer not only the historical image of the political figure, which established on books, films, memories of contemporaries, but also the psychological state of a person speaking to the people. The figure of the world proletariat leader is directed forward, its right hand raised to the chest level is an expressive gesture of the speaker.

Bronze figure Ilyich was supposed to replace a small gypsum bust, which was in the square of the officer's garrison house. After the initiative of local authorities on the installation of the monument was approved in Moscow, the search for a suitable monument began, soon found in the art fond of Kiev. He ordered for one of the districts of Leningrad, he was not in demand there for some reasons.

The finished gypsum form was cast in the metal in the Mytishchi artistic casting plant (Moscow region), whose specialists, with the participation of the workers of the Baltic ship repair plant and the soldiers of the garrison, set the monument on the pedestal.

The architectural project of the monument was performed by one of the first Kaliningrad architects - Arseny Vladimirovich Maximov.

Opening of the Monument V.I. Lenin took place on April 22, 1961, on the birthday of the leader. In May of the same year, the Guards Avenue, at the beginning of which a monument was established, was renamed Lenin's prospectus.

Monument to Lenin in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk

The monument to Vladimir Lenin appeared in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk 42 years ago on November 6, 1970. The leader's monument made under the project of the famous sculptor Evgenia Vuchetich, still remains one of the largest in the country.

The opening of the monument was timed to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin in accordance with the Decree of the CPSU Central Committee and the Council of Ministers of the USSR "On the plan of construction in 1967-1970 of monuments with the national meaning."

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk was lucky - the project was taken by the very eminent sculptor of the country of that time - the Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the USSR, a full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, Laureate of the Leninist and State Prize of the USSR, Sculptor Evgeny Vuchethich. He was the author of such famous compositions as a monument to the liberator in the Berlin Treps-Park and a memorial complex at Mamaev Kurgan in Volgograd.

Nine-meter sculpture V.I. Lenin is made in bronze and installed on a square monolithic reinforced concrete pedestal, lined with red granite blocks.

The monument was introduced into the Unified State Register of Historical and Cultural Heritage Objects and is under government.

Lenin on the island of Kunashir (Pos. Yuzhno-Kurilsk)

By tradition, the bust of the leader of the world proletariat is installed before the building of the local administration

There was no information about it in the network, but this little bustik himself made a rather strong impression on me. He is not at all like a good grandfather Lenin, rather, on his "strict" follower I.V. Stalina

Try to mentally remove the beard in his face, and instead of the temple forehead, Iosif Vissarionovich's hairstyle. That's the same.

Lenin in Irkutsk

Made by the project of the sculptor N.V. Tomsk and architect L.G.Golubovsky In 1952, the bronze sculpture was cast at the factory of figure casting at the Mint in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). The author did the original monument in 1940 for Voronezh, and the author's repeat - for Leningrad, Vilnius and Irkutsk.

Especially I would like to note that, unlike most other monuments, this is not an object of cultural heritage. From the lists of monuments of federal significance, it was expelled by the Decree of the then President of Russia Boris Yeltsin back in 1997. However, there was one reservation in that decree that the monument could be assigned the status of the object of cultural heritage of the local value. That's just the local administration is in no hurry to assign him this status. In this regard, in 2015, the initiative group made a proposal for the demolition of the monument and restoring the building of the church (which was there).

But let's dreamed on a second and see, but where does Lenin indicate?

Now he points to one of the university buildings. But earlier in this building there was a bank. Conclusions each will make it myself :)

Karelian Lenin

How can I do without a monument to Lenin in Petrozavodsk, the restoration of which became one of the points of signing the act on the capitulation of Finland and the conclusion of a peace treaty with the USSR

Monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is located in the center of Lenin Square. On July 18, 1930, carprofset decided to build a monument and collecting funds to build it. The project was ordered by the well-known Soviet sculptor Matvey Gerikhovich Manizer, the pedestal executed Architect Lev Alexandrovich Ilyin. The monument is composed of 14 gray granite blocks mined by the Gulag's Island in the Lake Island. Its total weight exceeds 140 tons, the height of Lenin's figure without pedestal is 6.5 meters, and with a pedestal - 11 meters. He is the largest monument in the territory of the Republic of Karelia.

During the Finnish occupation of Petrozavodsk (1941-1944), Lenin's figure was dismantled and badly damaged, and on the released pedestal was watered with a cannon. After the liberation of the city, the monument was restored with the participation of the Matthew of the Maniser. On November 16, 1945, the monument was again open. In 1957, another repair of the monument was made.

Udmurt Lenin

Not so long ago, I was fortunate enough to visit the city of Sarapul. This is a small provincial town in which, as it turns out, the monuments of the leader are quite a lot. I will show only one - on the Red Square in the square in front of the local administration building

Agree, something reminds Irkutsk. That's just a face ... Either it seems to me, or there is something national.

That's all. The collection is though not big, but constantly replenished. The only condition of my collection is only the monuments of self-toned photographed in it. For this very reason, the monument to Lenin in Kineshma did not come here, pointing his hand to the local police station, as well as of course the largest monument to Lenin at the entrance to the Volga-Don Canal.

Today, an monument will officially be officially opened in Odessa Darta Vader.. It is noteworthy that he was converted from monument to Lenin. Thus, Odessans fulfill the decamsmanization law.

The monument to Ilyich was to dismantle under the law "On the condemnation of the National Socialist (Nazi) and Communist ideology and prohibit the propaganda of their symbolism." Enontending Odessans decided not to destroy the monument, but to redo it. Gypsum monument added the head of the main hero of the "Star Wars" and changed the elements of clothing. It was originally: a new monument will necessarily become one of the Odessa attractions.

Photo: Informator

Old Soviet symbols, including monuments of Lenin, an incredible amount in the expanses of the former USSR and the countries of the Warsaw Treaty organization. In many places they were simply destroyed, in others - invent ways how to use differently. For example, monuments that represent artistic value are transferred to special museums. So done in Hungary and Lithuania.

In Budapest on the project, Akosh Eleeda in 1993 was opened Memento Parkwhere there are more than 40 exhibits, including a monument to Marx and Engels in the style of cubism, which once occupied the place in front of the building of the Central Committee of the Volp.

Memento Park in Budapest. Photo: Ferran Cornellà
Monument to Marx and Engels in Budapest. Photo: Andy sz

Park Museum Gottas In Lithuania, the Lithuanian businessman Vilyumas Malinaiuskas opened in 2001 in 2001. A large collection of monuments built into the Soviet era in various cities of Lithuania and dismantled after the restoration of independence are exhibited.

Monument to Lenin in the Park Gottas in Lithuania. Photo: ThingLink.com.
Park Gottas in Lithuania. Photo: CarRegado Por Adriao

Even in Moscow there Museum Art Parkwhere there are many sculptures of Soviet times. Including the well-known monuments of Dzerzhinsky sculptor Evgenia Vuchetich, Gorky and Stalin (the only surviving in Moscow after the Khrushchev thaw).

Museum art park. Photo: Advizzer.com

In other cities, it is often coming differently. For example, in Bucharest On the former Square of Lenin, an unusual monument was established to the Soviet leader - a modified copy of the five-meter monument to Lenin, which was at that very spot until 1990. Instead of head, he grow roses. The author of the monument, sculptor Kostin Ionice, thus wanted to portray the system of power - in the form of a huge hydra.

Hydra in Bucharest is a former monument to Lenin. Photo: Hungeree.com.

IN Krakow Last year made a fountain in the form of Pissing Lenin. The statue of bright aquamarine is a small copy of the old monument, dismantled in this place in December 1989. The new project was called the Fountain of the Future.

Pissing Lenin in Krakow. Photo: AFP / Scanpix

In the US, there are two unusual monuments Lenin: in Seattle and Las Vegas. The first is located in the Fremont area and was made by the Slovak sculptor Emil Wankov, by order of the Czechoslovaki government. The sculpture was installed in the city of Poprad on Lenin Square shortly before the fall of the communist regime and was dismantled in 1989. A few years later, American Lewis Carpenter was found among the scrap, who at that time he taught English in Poprad. Together with his friend, a local journalist, he managed to convince the authorities in the fact that the statue remains the work of art, bought it and translated into the United States. Now Lenin's statue has become an object of art projects in Seattle: she is decorated for Christmas, decorated under John Lennon and even dressed "in the girl." Another Lenin - without a head - is located in Las Vegas near the RED Square restaurant.

Lenin in Drag. Photo: niall kennedy
Lenin in Las Vegas at the RED Square restaurant. Photo:

143 years ago born Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. During the Soviet authorities, it was installed thousands of absolutely identical monuments, which we simply do not pay attention to today. But sometimes there are unicumes among them. 7 of them - in our selection.

1. The biggest

The largest monument to the leader of the world proletariat is not at all in Moscow and not in the former Leningrad, as it would be logical to assume, but in the former Stalingrad, now Volgograd, at the entrance to the Volga-Don shipping channel called by the name Vladimir Ilyich. The height of the monument is 57 meters (27 meters - the sculpture itself and another 30 - lined with a granite pedestal, on which before, ironically stood a monument to Stalin). Volgograd Lenin, opened in April 1973, is the largest monument in the world depicting a really living person. Above him only Christ and Buddha.

2. The most illustant

Apparently, without having funds for a whole huge monument, but also wanting to chase something that the most connected with Lenin, the authorities of Buryatia in November 1971 installed on the Square Square in Ulan-Ude, the world's largest Ilyich's head in the world. In the city folklore, the inhabitants of the Buryat capital even were even born a joke, as if in the Far East was going to put a giant monument to Lenin, but during the carriage of his helicopter a cable was broken, and the head fell, and the city was built around it. Perhaps this sculpture of 7.7 height and 4.5 meters wide, weighing 42 tons, was designed to emphasize the greatness of the brain and the scale of the thoughts of the founder of the USSR.

3. MECHANICAL

The leader on the most unusual pedestal can be contemplated in Moscow, in front of the locomotive depot in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Leningrad Station. The statue itself was made in the workshop of the famous sculptor Sergei Mercurov in 1925, and the design of the wheeled steam, steel beams and other locomotive parts, on which Ilyich stands, was built with the gear system, on which Ilyich stands. Thanks to the built-in electric motor, the pedestal could move along the rails. Now, however, he stands on joke, and the sculpture will not turn out too, because the mechanism is abundantly smeared paint.

4. The most "warmed"

While sculptors representing different peoples of the immense Soviet Union, gave their monuments to Lenin barely catchy national traits, whether the Mongoloid eye cut or a Caucasian nose with a humpback, the inhabitants of some of the northern regions tried not to give the leader to frozen, "dressing" him instead of the usual Franch In the coat and the hats-Ushanki. Of the four thousand vigorings of Ilyich in Russia there are only few pieces: in Rybinsk (Yaroslavl region), in Biysk (Altai Territory), in Minusinsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory) and in Petrozavodsk (Karelia). Due to the huge remoteness of these cities, most of their inhabitants have never heard of the existence of another "insulated" Lenin and sincerely believes that their Ilyich is the only one in its kind. So that they do not argue, the title of the most "insulated" monument to the leader of the world proletariat, we will give sculpture in the village of Yaropolec of the Volokolamsky district of the Moscow region, because here the sculptor dressed in a warm hat not only Vladimir Ilyich, but also Krupskaya next to him.

5. The most colorful

Small, about human growth, but a very colorful monument to Lenin stands in the resort village of Morkym on Goa. Mordima is one of the most chosen to Russian tourists in India. In the village there are many Russian guesthouses, Russian restaurants, there is even a Russian kindergarten. It is not surprising that in the 2000s, on the initiative of the nostalging on the homeland of Russian residents of the resort, a monument to Lenin appeared here. It is made of wood and, in local customs, is decorated with bright colors.

6. The most blasphemy

The sculptural images of Lenin in the United States due to the dislike of Americans to communism are not officially not related to monuments, and are considered simply statues that perform a decorative function or expressing a certain artistic idea or the views of their installation initiators. That is why, next to a restaurant of Russian cuisine "Red Square" inside the Mandalay Bay casino in Las Vegas, it became possible to appear decapitated bronze Lenin, smeared to the same imitation of bird litter.

7. The most

In December 1958, by the efforts of the third Soviet Antarctic Expedition, the bust of the leader of the world proletariat appeared on the southern pole of inaccessibility - in the most remote from all shores Antarctica point. The polar explosives watered it to the roof of the household house, turning the face towards Moscow. Considering that the average annual air temperature here is about -57 ° C, this plastic Lenin is at the same time the most southern, most inaccessible and most rarely visited monument (not more than 40 people see him) by a monument on Earth, which is also in one of the most Cold points of our planet.