Monument of the Great October Revolution

Monument of the Great October Revolution

Monument of the Great October Revolution in front of the Hotel Moskva
Location	Kyiv, Ukraine
Designer	Vasyl Borodai, ,
Type	Monument composition
Material	granite, bronze
Height	18.4 m (60 ft)
Completion date	22 October 1977
Dedicated to	October Revolution
Dismantled date	1991
Because of 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 in what is now Independence Square^[2] in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital city and during the lifespan of the Monument of the Great October Revolution the capital city of the Ukrainian SSR as part of the Soviet Union.^{[nb 1]}

Description[]

The monument had a form of a granite pylon with a figure of Vladimir Lenin out of red granite (8.9 m (29 ft)). In front of the pylon there were four bronze figures of male and female workers, peasant and sailor, each 5.25 m (17.2 ft) in height. The whole composition was located on a granite stylobate.

Designers[]

• Vasyl Borodai, sculptor
• Ivan Znoba, sculptor
• Valentyn Znoba, sculptor
• Oleksandr Malynovsky, architect
• M.Skybytsky, architect

Gallery[]

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  Removing of the monument on September 12, 1991 (decision of the Kiev City Council)

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  Maidan Nezalezhnosti in September 1991, there is seen the monument being taken down

See also[]

• Vladimir Lenin monument, Kyiv

Notes[]

References[]

External links[]

• Chronology of the Soviet Union disintegration.
• In Kiev took down the Monument commemorating the Great October Socialist Revolution (1991). Calendarium
• Face of Kiev: How in the city monuments were changed. Comments.