East Berlin, Germany

In the Soviet Union, every city had several monuments of Vladimir Lenin. With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, many statues of Vladimir Lenin were torn down. This happened even earlier in the European post-Communist states and in the Baltic states. However some remain, and some new ones have been erected. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (841x1160, 175 KB)Statue of Lenin at Leninplats in Berlin. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (841x1160, 175 KB)Statue of Lenin at Leninplats in Berlin. ... (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин, Vladimir Ilič Lenin; IPA:; born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; April 22 [O.S. April 10] 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Communist revolutionary of Russia, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the main theorist of what has come to be called... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Baltic states and the Baltic Sea The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a term which nowadays refers to three countries in Northern Europe: Estonia Latvia Lithuania Prior to World War II, Finland was sometimes considered, particularly by the Soviet Union, a fourth Baltic state. ...

Communist and post-communist states

• Former Soviet Union:
  • Russia:
    • Abakan
    • Archangelsk
    • Dubna, the largest monument to Lenin in the World
    • Irkutsk
    • Kaliningrad
    • Monino
    • Moscow (capital)
    • Rostov on Don
    • Samara
    • Saratov
    • St. Petersburg
    • Sochi
    • Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
    • Ulan Ude
    • Ulyanovsk
    • Velikiy Novgorod
    • Vladivostok
    • Volchov
    • Volgograd
    • Yaroslavl
  • Ukraine:
    • Donetsk
    • Kharkov
    • Kiev (capital)
    • Poltava
    • Yalta
    • Sevastopol
    • Zaporizhzhya
  • Armenia: Yerevan (capital, taken down after collapse)
  • Belarus: Minsk (capital), Grodno, Vitsebsk, Brest, Slonim
  • Estonia: Narva
  • Kazakhstan: Taldy-Korgan (Taldyqorghan), Karaganda
  • Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek (capital)
  • Lithuania: All statues were taken down after 1991, most eventually wound up in Grutas Park; they were all erected during Soviet period and stood, among other places, in Vilnius (capital, at least 2 statues, one of them together with Lithuanian communist leader Kapsukas), Kaunas, Klaipeda, Siauliai, Jonava, Druskininkai, Jurbarkas (the Jurbarkas Lenin is now part of instalation in Europos Parkas park in Vilnius).
  • Tajikistan: Khojand
  • Moldova (in the breakaway Transnistria region): Bendery, Tiraspol (capital)
• Other Communist and post-communist states:
  • Hungary: Budapest (Staute Park) (capital)
  • Cuba: Havana (capital)
  • Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar (capital)
  • Vietnam: Hanoi (capital)

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Location Ethnographic region AukÅ¡taitija County Kaunas County Municipality Kaunas city municipality Elderate Number of elderates 11 Coordinates General information Capital of Kaunas County Kaunas city municipality Kaunas district municipality Population (rank) 361,274 in 2005 (2nd) First mentioned 1361 Granted city rights 1408 Kaunas ( (help· info), approximate English transcription... Klaipėda. ... Šiauliai (approximate English transcription [ʃǝʊ. ... Location Ethnographic region AukÅ¡taitija County Kaunas County Municipality Jonava district municipality Elderate Number of elderates Coordinates General information Capital of Jonava district municipality Population (rank) 34,954 in 2001 (9th) First mentioned 1740 Granted city rights 1864 Jonava ( (help· info)) is the 9th largest city in Lithuania with population... Location Ethnographic region DzÅ«kija County Alytus County Municipality Druskininkai municipality Elderate Number of elderates Coordinates General information Capital of Druskininkai municipality Population (rank) 20000 in 2005 (20th) First mentioned 1596 Granted city rights 1893 Druskininkai ( (help· info), Belarusian: ; Polish: ) is a spa town on Nemunas River in Lithuania, close... Jurbarkas(Yurbarkas, in German Georgenburg, Jurgenburg, Eurburg, in Yiddish יורבורג Jurborg, Jurburg(Yurburg), Yurberig, Yurbrik) is a Lithuanian town situated on the right hand shore of the Nieman (Nemunas) river. ... Europos Parkas is an open air museum located 17 km away from Vilnius. ... Khujand (Хужант also transliterated as Khudjand, Khudzhand, and Khodjend), formerly Leninabad is a city on the Syr-Darya at the mouth of the Fergana Valley, and also gives its name to the northernmost region of the Republic of Tajikistan. ... For other uses, see Transnistria (disambiguation). ... Tighina, or Tigina, is a city in Moldova. ... Tiraspol (Romanian pronunciation: /ti. ... Statue of Marx and Engels. ... Aerial view of Havana Havana (Spanish in full: San Cristóbal de La Habana, usually shortened to just La Habana; UN/LOCODE: CU HAV) is the capital of Cuba and, with a population of 2. ... September 2004 Ulan Bator, or Ulaanbaatar (Улаанбаатар, [UlaÉ£an BaÉ£atar]) in Mongolian, is the capital of Mongolia. ... Hanoi (Vietnamese: Hà Ná»™i; Han tu: 河内), estimated population 3,083,800 (2004), is the capital of Vietnam and was the capital of North Vietnam from 1954 to 1976. ...

Other states

• Europe:
  • United Kingdom:Belfast, Northern Ireland - above the entrance to the Kremlin Bar
  • Norway:Barentsburg, Svalbard
  • Italy:
    • Cavriago, at Piazza Lenin (Italian for Lenin Square) (near Reggio Emilia)
    • Capri, in the Gardens of Augustus
  • Finland:Kotka
• India: Kolkata, Vijayawada
• United States:
  • Freedom Park in Arlington, Virginia - toppled and headless, the statue was shipped from St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • Fremont in Seattle, Washington - near the Fremont Sunday market site. Shipped from Slovakia. [1]
  • East Village in New York City - atop "Red Square" luxury apartment building, installed in 1994.
  • Dallas, Texas
  • Atlantic City, New Jersey - in the Tropicana Casino
• Zimbabwe: Harare (capital)

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Gallery

Moscow, Russia Moscow street scene, with the Sanyo sign, Orthodox church, and street vendors, taken August 2003 by User:Stan Shebs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...	Vladivostok, Russia Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 859 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...	Petropavlovsk, Russia Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 783 KB)Lenin Square in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...	Yaroslavl, Russia Download high resolution version (768x1024, 168 KB)Lenin statue in Yaroslavl, Russia. ...
New York City, United States Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...	Seattle, United States Statue of Vladimir Lenin in Seattle, WA. Photo taken by Popebrak, October 2002. ...	Kolkata, India Download high resolution version (960x1280, 240 KB)Lenin statue in Kolkata. ...	Vijayawada, India Download high resolution version (425x910, 53 KB)Lenin Statue, Vijayawada. ...

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Statues of Lenin

• Lenins of the world - A compilation of surviving Lenin statues
• Gruto parkas has several Lenin statues: [2], [3], [4].