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

See also

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