Monument of the Great October Revolution

Monument of the Great October Revolution in front of the Moscow Hotel (now Hotel Ukraine)
Location	Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
Designer	Vasyl Borodai, Ivan Znoba, Valentyn Znoba
Type	Monument composition
Material	granite, bronze
Height	18.4 m (60 ft)
Completion date	22 October 1977; 46 years ago (1977-10-22)
Dedicated to	October Revolution
Dismantled date	12 September 1991; 32 years ago (1991-09-12)
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 (8.9 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

• 
  Removal of the monument on September 12, 1991, by decision of the Kiev City Council
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  Maidan Nezalezhnosti in September 1991; the monument is being taken down

See also

• Vladimir Lenin monument, Kyiv
• Decommunization in Ukraine

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.