Monument of the Great October Revolution was a Soviet monument that was located on the October Revolution Square from 1977–1991 (now Independence Square) in Kiev, at the time the capital of the Ukrainian SSR as part of the Soviet Union.
Description
The monument had a form of a granite pylon with a figure of Vladimir Lenin out of red granite (). In front of the pylon there were four bronze figures of male and female workers, peasant and sailor, each 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
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.