List of statues of Vladimir Lenin

This article is a list of current and former known monuments of Vladimir Lenin. Many of the monuments in former Soviet republics and satellites were removed after the fall of the Soviet Union, while some of these countries retained the thousands of Lenin monuments that were erected during the Soviet period as part of Lenin's cult of personality.

Important regions and capital cities of countries are highlighted in bold.

Africa

Americas

Antarctica

Asia

Europe

Belarus

* Babruysk
* Baranovichi
* Barysaw
* Belaazyorsk
* Brest
* Bykhaw
* Chachersk
* Davyd-Haradok
* Drahichyn
* Dzyarzhynsk
* Gomel
* Grodno
* Klimavichy
* Kobryn
* Lahoysk
* Lida
* Maladzyechna
* Malaryta
* Mazyr
* Minsk
* Mogilev
* Navahrudak
* Novolukoml
* Orsha
* Pastavy
* Pinsk
* Polotsk
* Sapotskin
* Salihorsk
* Slonim
* Smalyavichy
* Smarhon'
* Syanno
* Talachyn
* Vasilievichy
* Verkhnyadzvinsk
* Vitebsk
* Zhlobin
* Zhabinka

Bulgaria

*Shumen
*Novgrad
*Banya
*Pet Mogili
* Sofia – in Lenin Square (now St Nedelya Square), installed in 1966 and pulled down in January 1991; the site is now occupied by the Statue of Sveta Sofia

Czech Republic

* Vítězné náměstí (formerly náměstí Říjnové Revoluce) – in the Dejvice quarter of Prague, pulled down in 1990; a war memorial now stands on the site
* Karlovy Vary – Theatre Square (formerly Lenin Square), pulled down in 1990.
* Cheb - Built in 1979, it was located in front of Cheb railway station until 1990, it is now located at the garden of the Franciscan Monastery

Denmark

*Worker's Museum, Copenhagen – relocated from Hørsholm where it stood from 1986 until 1996

Estonia

*Jõhvi – 1953–1991, sculptors Enn Roos, Arseni Mölder, Signe Mölder
*Kohtla-Järve – 1950–1992, copy of statue in Jõhvi
*Kallaste – 1988–19??
*Narva – 1957–1993, sculptor Olav Männi (21/12/1993-21/12/2022 statue present inside Narva Castle)
*Pärnu
**1950s–1981
**1981–1990, sculptor Matti Varik created a replica of a monument built in Kotka in 1979
*Tallinn – 1950–1991, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky
*Tartu
**1949–1952 sitting Lenin (ferroconcrete), sculptor Sergey Merkurov
**1952–1990 standing Lenin bronze, height 3.5 m, weight 3.5 tons; sculptors August Vomm, Garibald Pommer, Ferdi Sannamaes

Finland

*Kotka – at Lenin park, removed on 14 June 2022
*Turku – near the art museum, removed in 2022
*Tampere – inside Lenin museum

France

*Montpellier
*Paris

Georgia

* Tbilisi – monument stood until 1991 in Freedom Square (Tavisuplebis Moedani)

Germany

* Berlin – '' Lenin Monument'', created in 1970 by Nikolai Tomsky in granite, 19 m, at Leninplatz, removed in 1992 and buried outside Berlin. The statue's head was found in 2015 and restored and put on display as part of an exhibition on Berlin’s monuments in Spandau Citadel, Berlin.
**One statue of Lenin (approximately 2:1) stood in Kreuzberg (West Berlin) in the yard of a removal company, before being moved to the front of the company's new main building in the district of Neukölln (also West Berlin) in September 2016.
* Gelsenkirchen – A 3-metre statue revealed in 2020, The 1st to ever be erected in West Germany.
* Nohra – restored stone statue at the site of the former Soviet airbase.
* Potsdam – Bust of Lenin, originally at a Soviet Army base, it was placed in the Volkspark for an exhibition in 1994 and was subsequently moved to one of the main entrances where it is used as a children's climbing feature.
* Schwerin – Statue of Lenin, made by the Estonian sculptor Jaak Soans and inaugurated on 22 June 1985. Even nowadays this monument is still causing heated debates among politicians, citizen and historians, who, divided in supporters and detractors, continue arguing about its future.
* Wittstock – a neglected statue outside the derelict cultural centre at the abandoned Soviet military base.
* Wünsdorf (Zossen) – two large statues and a bronze head of Lenin survive at the former Soviet army complex.
* Zeithain – a 2-metre statue at the former Soviet Army training ground.

Greece

* Athens – front of the Headquarters building of the Communist Party of Greece

Hungary

* Budapest – created in 1965 by Patzáy Pál, in City Park. In 1989, the huge statue was lifted off its red granite pedestal (later demolished), and carried away “for restoration”; in 1991, it was moved to Memento Park. Timewheel now stands on the former site.
* Before 1990, every county seat and industrial town had their Lenin statues. Many smaller settlements had their own, too. In 1990 or shortly afterwards, all Lenins were quickly removed.

Italy

*Cavriago – at Piazza Lenin (Italian for Lenin Square), near Reggio Emilia
*Capri – in the Gardens of Augustus

Latvia

* Cēsis – statue unveiled on November 7, 1959, sculptor Karlis Jansons; removed on October 17, 1990
* Riga – removed on August 25, 1991.

Lithuania

All statues were taken down in 1991 or soon after, most eventually winding up in Grutas Park. They were erected during the Soviet period and stood, among other places, in Vilnius (at least two statues, one of them together with Lithuanian communist leader Kapsukas), Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Jonava, Druskininkai, and Jurbarkas (the Jurbarkas Lenin is now part of an installation in Europos Parkas park in Vilnius).
* Druskininkai – 1981–1991, sculptor N. Petrulis
* Jonava – 1984–1991, sculptor K. Bogdanas
* Kaunas – 1970–1991, sculptor N. Petrulis
* Klaipėda – 1976–1991, sculptor G. Jokubonis
* Palanga – 1977–1991, sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich
* Panevėžys – 1983–1991, sculptor G. Jokubonis
* Šiauliai – 1970–1991, sculptors A. Toleikis and D. Lukosevicius
* Vilnius
** 1952–1991, sculptor Nikolai Tomsky
** 1979–1991, "Lenin and Kapsukas in Poronino", sculptor K. Bogdanas

Moldova

* Chișinău – at the Moldexpo site
*Edineț – Inside the city park
*In the centre (statue) and on the outskirts (bust, near Rompetrol gas station) of Comrat, in the autonomous region of Gagauzia
*unrecognised state of Transnistria
**Tiraspol – outside the Parliament, the City Soviet building and the Historical Museum
**Rîbnița – main square
** Bender – opposite the Gorky Cinema & on Moskovskaya Street
** Parcani – on Gogol Street
**Dnestrovsc – Two busts
** Various other towns and villages in Transnistria have Lenin busts and statues in their centres

Netherlands

* Enschede – in front of the TwentseWelle Museum. It was placed in the context of an exhibition about the GDR.

Norway

* Svalbard – two Russian settlements in Svalbard have Lenin statues, Barentsburg and Pyramiden

Poland

* Warsaw – at the Party's House, used in the Palace of Culture and Science during the Congress of the Polish United Workers Party; in 2014 moved to the museum in Kozłówka
* Kraków – in Nowa Huta district, the biggest in Poland, pulled down in December 1989, in 1992 moved to High Chaparral Theme Park in Sweden
* Kraków – in Nowa Huta district, in the area Vladimir Lenin Steelwork (currently Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks), removed in 1990
* Kraków – with Joseph Stalin, in Strzelecki Park, removed in 1957
* Gdańsk – in Gdańsk Shipyard (ex Lenin Shipyard), hid in 1990, destroyed in 1991, in 1999 made a copy in the museum of "Solidarity" in Gdańsk Shipyard
* Poronin – pulled down in 1990, since 1999 in the museum in Kozłówka
* Poronin – set up in 2014 on private area, damaged in 2015
* Słubice – removed in 1990
* Mysłowice – in Wesoła district, in the area Coal Mine "Lenin" (currently Coal Mine "Wesoła"), pulled down in 1990
* Legnica – ex-headquarters of the Northern Group of Forces of the Soviet Army, moved to Ulyanovsk in 1993
* Legnica – at Legnica Airport, ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed in 1992
* Legnica – in Zosinek district, ex military unit of the Soviet Army, damaged in 1992
* Legnica – in Legnicki Dwór district, ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed in 1992
* Borne Sulinowo – ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed in 1992
* Borne Sulinowo – ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed in 1992
* Brzeg – ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed in 1992
* Brzeg – ex school in military unit of the Soviet Army, removed in 1991
* Stargard – in Kluczewo district, ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed ca. 1992
* Kołobrzeg – in Podczele district, leisure centre "Bukowina", head separately, damaged after 1992, before in military unit of the Soviet Army
* Oława – ex military unit of the Soviet Army, removed in 1992
* Swoboda – set up in 1954 in front of the school, moved after 1990 to building ex school
* Poznań – in club and café ''Proletaryat'', set up in 2004
* Maczków – on the balcony of a private building

In 1939–1941, after the attack of the Red Army, statues of Lenin were in: Sokółka, Augustów, Kolno, Suwałki, Białystok (pulled down in June 1941), Łomża, Choroszcz (3x), Brańsk, Bielsk Podlaski, Jedwabne, Siemiatycze, Śniadowo, Czyżewo (pulled down 5 July 1941), Zaręby Kościelne, Zambrów, Przemyśl, Lubaczów, Łapy, Zabłudów etc.

Romania

* Bucharest – designed by sculptor and built in front of the House of the Free Press in April 1960, it was pulled down in March 1990

Russia

Out of 7,000 Lenin statues as of 1991, Russia retained the vast majority. As of 2022, there are approximately 6,000 monuments to Lenin in Russia.

* Akhtubinsk – a monument installed in the town center, VI Lenin
* Almetyevsk – a monument installed in the center of the city on Lenin Square
* Arzamas – two monuments in the city, in the Cathedral Square and Peace Square
* Arkhangelsk – Only a few remain of the city's many monuments. The monument in the square is the last major Lenin monument to be established in the Soviet Union, in 1988. Others stand in Solombala on the Square, Terekhina on the street, and Gagarin in the yard.
* Astrakhan – monument installed in the square, VI Lenin
* Bakhchysarai (''disputed Crimea'')
* Balakovo – Saratov region, two monuments
* Barnaul – three on the main avenue, and one in Upland Park. Because of the drapery which is present in the composition of the monument near the street Anatolia, a Lonely Planet guide to Russia has called the monument "Lenin Toreador".
* Belgorod – at Cathedral Square (the former Revolution Square), in Lenin Park, near the now-current cinema "Falcon", and a bust in the Belgorod Dairy Plant (BMP)
* Berezniki – Lenin Square (about Palace of Culture, Lenin)
* Bogoroditsk – town center
* Boksitogorsk – central square (Lenin Square)
* Dubna – 25 m, the second tallest; 15 m statue on a 10 m pedestal
* Dedovsk – a small monument is located opposite the branch of RSCU in the street of Gagarin
* Dimitrovgrad – the town square – the square of the Soviets. A bust is located within the NCC, Slavsky.
* Dmitry – installed in the central square of the historic district
* Dubna – the world's second largest statue of Lenin lies in the vicinity of the "Big Volga". Sculptor SD Merkurov, height 25 m (with pedestal 37 m), weight 540 tons. The monument was erected in 1937 on the banks of the Volga near the beginning of the Moscow Canal. On the other bank was a monument to Stalin. After Stalin's death the monument was blown up, but the pedestal remained.
* Dudinka – monument in front of the House of Culture
* Dyatkovo – on Lenin Square in the town center, next to buildings authorities
* Dzerzhinsk – in Lenin Square. The authors of the improvement and development area are the architects Androsova GD and Sinyavsky EA. Sculptor Nelyubin BS; opened for the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin in 1970.
* Ekaterinburg – main monument in front of City Hall in Lenin Square since 1905; secondary monuments placed at the entrance of the Sverdlovsk Tools Factory Street
* Gelendzhik – monument near the boarding house "Caucasus", st. Mayachnaya
** The working village Settlement on Lenin Street has a monument, built in contemporary Russia (established November 7, 2006). Sculptor V. Fetisov
* Irkutsk
** monument at the crossing of streets Karl Marx and Lenin
** bust on Karl Marx street, in front of a shopping center
* Izhevsk – monument established in 1958 at the National Library of the Udmurt Republic, sculptor PP Yatsynova and architect LN Kulaga, in bronze and granite
* Ishimbay – 1966, the square on the street gutter
* Kazan
** monument standing 1930–1951, in the square and then park in the former Theatre (now Liberty) Square
** the new statue with bleachers installed in 1954 at what was then the main Freedom Square
** monument to young Vladimir Ulyanov (like Moscow) set in 1954 at University Park on the street Kremlin
** a statue of Lenin stands in front of the Lenin House of Culture in Sotsgorod
* Kaliningrad – major monument to Lenin by the sculptor VB Topuridze installed at Victory Square in 1958. In 2005, during the reconstruction of the area, the monument was removed allegedly temporarily, for the restoration, but after the reconstruction the monument was not returned. Mayor of Kaliningrad Yury Savenko put forward the idea of creating the city's Lenin Square, where he could transfer the monument.
* Kaluga – statue in front of the regional administration in the area of old trades that previously had the name Lenin
* Kamensk Shakhtinsky – a monument to Lenin in Kamensk Shakhtinsky square, at the intersection of the Avenue of Karl Marx and Pushkin Street, next to the district council Kamensky district, Rostov region
* Kemerovo – Lenin monument in the Square of the Soviets. One night in 1993 local businessmen made an unsuccessful attempt to demolish the monument.
* Prokopyevsk – statue was destroyed by a drunk man attempting to take a selfie
* Kimry – a monument placed in the town center
* Kirov – Theatre Square, XX Party Congress
* Kolomna – monument installed in the center of the square of the two revolutions
* Krasnodar

** The main urban monument to Lenin, sculptor P. Sabsay, architect A Giants, opened in 1956 on the square in front of the Communist Party Regional Committee (now the Legislative Assembly of Krasnodar Region – KYC), according to government decree of the RSFSR.
** The oldest statue of Lenin in Krasnodar (sculptor K. Dietrich) is in the park to VI Lenin, on the street Vishnyakova. The monument was built in 1925, a year after the death of the Soviet dictator.
* Krasnoturinsk – monument installed in front of the city administration in the city centre
* Krasnoyarsk – statue on Revolution Square in the city centre
* Krasnoznamensk (Moscow region) – set before the House of Culture (house of the garrison officers)
* Kursk – monument installed in front of the city administration in the city centre
* Lodeynoye Pole – Statue in front of train station
* Moscow – There are over 82 Lenin monuments in Moscow, including:
** large monument in downtown Kaluzhskaya Square, opposite the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice
** statue at the All-Russian Exhibition Center, Ostankinsky District
** sitting Lenin in Tverskaya Square, opposite the Residence of the Mayor of Moscow
** sitting Lenin at the Park of the December Uprising
** Lenin is depicted in full in a coat and cap at Pavlovskaya Street
* Noginsk - the oldest statue erected in 1924
* Murom
* Pokhvistnevo – statue is standing near the Culture Palace
* Pskov – statue is standing near the House of Soviets
* Saint-Petersburg – Statue of Lenin at Finland Station: Lenin giving a speech from an armored car monument is present in the city on Ploshchad Lenina (Lenin Square) next to Finland Railway Station
*Samara – Statue of Lenin on Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square) in the old part of the city.
* Sevastopol (''disputed Crimea'')
* Simferopol (''capital of disputed Crimea'')
* Tambov – Lenin statue in Lenin Square, in the centre of the city.
* Ulan Ude – biggest head of Lenin in the world, in front of Buryatia government building
* Veliky Novgorod – two monuments: in the Sofia area (established in April 1928, lost by war, restored in 1958) and in Street Trading Ivanskoy side
* Vladikavkaz (sculptor ZI Azgur, architect G. Zakharov) is open on Lenin Square in front of the Russian Drama Theatre. Vakhtangov in 1957. In 1993, twice blown up and subsequently restored.
*Volgograd (27 m, the tallest).now in five sites:
** "Great Lenin" – Liberty Square (the intersection of Victory Avenue and the streets of the World)
** "Little Lenin" – the Children's park named after Alexander Pushkin.
** A monument in the main building of the Volgograd State Technical University.
** 2 monuments in car-repair factory.
** Lenin monument at the entrance of the Volga-Don channel – set in the Krasnoarmeysk area (height pedestal) – 30 meters, the sculpture – 27 meters. Sculptor – EV Vucetich. Earlier, on the same pedestal, there was a monument to Stalin.
** In the central region on Lenin Square on the 90th anniversary of the monument to Lenin. Sculptor – EV Vucetich.
** In the central region, in the park opposite the building of regional administration.
** The Post Office building is a statue of Lenin.
* Volga:
** Monument to Lenin Square.
* Vyborg:
** A monument in the town square – Red (set in 1957)
** The bust in the house-museum of Lenin
* Yakutsk – Lenin statue in Lenin Square, in the centre of the city.
* Yalta (''disputed Crimea'')
* Yefremov – a park near the city administration. Also in the park near the police building.
* Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk region) – Lenin Square opposite the Palace of Culture. There was also the now dismantled joint statue of Lenin and Stalin.

Slovakia

* Bratislava – Built in 1970, after Velvet Revolution it was taken to Nové Mesto nad Váhom. The statue is now privately owned and it is located in the village Drietoma.
* Poprad – Built in 1981 (see Statue of Lenin, Seattle)
* Košice – Built in 1987, the statue stood in front of former Building of Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, in 1989 after Velvet Revolution it was taken to the warehouse of the East Slovak Museum.

Spain

* Bust at Otxarkoaga district of Bilbao, erected without approval from the authorities.

Sweden

* Vittsjö, a small town in southern Sweden. The statue is privately owned by Calevi Hämäläinen.

United Kingdom

*London, Islington Museum – 245 St John Street, Islington. Bust by Berthold Lubetkin commissioned by the UK Government during the war in tribute to the efforts of the Soviet Union. It was placed in Holford Square (briefly Lenin's home when he lived in London) and unveiled in 1942. It was a supposed focal point of a new housing development to be named 'Lenin Court' although the choice of Lenin proved unpopular with the local community and the bust was frequently daubed with anti-communist slogans. Lubetkin had the bust removed and when the housing development was completed in the late 1940s, it was renamed 'Bevin Court'. The bust was displayed in Islington Town Hall for many years and is now on permanent display in the museum.
*RAF Museum Cosford - In the national cold War exhibition. A Statue of Lenin holding a gift bag is used as a focal point for the museum's gift shop.
*Belfast – The Kremlin Bar, a gay bar, has a statue of Lenin welcoming partygoers over the main entrance.

Ukraine

In 1991 Ukraine had 5,500 Lenin monuments.

Before Ukraine's Euromaidan, Lenin monuments and other Soviet-era monuments were already being removed. However, in 2008, the 139th anniversary of Lenin, two new Lenin monuments were erected in Luhansk Oblast.Two Lenin monuments opened in Luhansk Oblast
UNIAN (April 22, 2008)

In Ukraine more than 500 statues of Lenin were dismantled between February 2014 and April 2015, after which nearly 1,700 remained standing. On 15 May 2015 President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a bill into law that set a six-month deadline for the removal of the country's communist monuments.Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization
Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015
Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes
Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20
Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols
BBC News (14 April 2015) By December 2015 Lenin monuments 1,300 were still standing (in Ukraine).Out of Sight
The Ukrainian Week (28 December 2015)

In April 2015, a formal decommunization process started in Ukraine after laws were approved which, among other acts, outlawed communist symbols.

* Almazna (''occupied by pro-Russian separatists'')
* Alupka (''disputed Crimea'')
* Andriyevo-Ivanove – broken in half on January 4, 2014
* Amvrosiivka (''occupied by pro-Russian separatists'')
* Antratsyt (''occupied by pro-Russian separatists'')
* Armiansk (''disputed Crimea'')
* Bakhchysarai (''disputed Crimea'')
* Baranivka
* Barvinkove
* Berdychiv
* Bila Tserkva
* Bilopillia
* Bilohirsk (''disputed Crimea'')
* Bilokurakyne – fell on 10 October 2014
* Bilozerka – removed on 8 July 2014
* Bilytske
* Bohodukhiv – toppled on 10 October 2014
* Boryslav – removed in 1990
* Brianka (''occupied by pro-Russian separatists'')
* Brovary
* Chasiv Yar
* Cherkasy – mounted from 1969 to 2008, designed by K.O. Kuznetsov, architect — V.G. Gniezdilo
* Chernobyl main street
* Chernihiv – toppled by protesters on February 21, 2014."Leninopad" continues – monuments dismantled in Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Chernihiv
Ukrayinska Pravda (February 21, 2014)
* Chernivtsi – mounted from 1951 to 1992, designed by М.K. Vronsky, O.P. Oliynyk, architect — М. Ashkinazi
* Chervona Svoboda – removed on 8 July 2014
* Chervonopartyzansk (''occupied by pro-Russian separatists'')
* Chuhuiv
* Derazhnia
* Derhachi – toppled on 29 September 2014
* Dnipropetrovsk – toppled by protesters on February 21, 2014.
*Dnipropetrovsk, 2 Lenin monuments were removed by the city in 2014; in March 2014 the city's Lenin Square was renamed "Heroes of Independence Square" in honor of the people killed during Euromaidan. The statue of Lenin on the square was removed. In June 2014 another Lenin monument was removed (parts of the monument were moved to a local history museum) and replaced by a monument for the Ukrainian military fighting against armed insurgents in the Donbass (region of Ukraine)
In May 2016 Dnipropetrovsk was itself officially renamed to ''Dnipro'' to comply with decommunization laws.
Верховна Рада України (Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine)
, ''Поіменне голосування про проект Постанови про перейменування міста Дніпропетровська Дніпропетровської області (№3864) (Roll-call vote on the draft resolution on renaming of Dnipropetrovsk Dnipropetrovsk region №3864)'', 19 May 2016.
* Dokuchaievsk (''occupied by pro-Russian separatists'')
* Donetsk (''occupied by pro Russian separatists'') – in the Lenin Square
* Dunaivtsi
* Dzhankoy (''disputed Crimea'')
* Enerhodar
* Fastiv
* Feodosiya (''disputed Crimea'')
* Hirnyk
* Hirske
* Inkerman (''disputed Crimea'')
* Ivano-Frankivsk – mounted from 1975 to 1990, designed by H.N. Kalchenko, А.Е. Belostotsky, О.A. Suprun.
* Izmail
* Kamianka-Dniprovska – destroyed on 16 April 2014
* Kyiv, located in front of Besarabsky Market, erected in the 1950s. (Toppled and dismantled by Ukrainian protesters on December 8, 2013)
* Kharkiv