Kyiv, Ukraine, 1991. Ukrainian workmen on scaffolding at the head of a 30-foot (8.9 m) statue of Vladimir Lenin. The granite statue stood overlooking what was October Revolution Square during the Soviet times, the Square on Khreshchatyk street in central Kyiv was renamed Independence Square and the statue was removed from the square in 1991 a few months before the Soviet Union officially ceased to exist in December 1991.
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Chuck Nacke / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
2R82E6CFile size:
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4200 x 2641 px | 35.6 x 22.4 cm | 14 x 8.8 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
29 August 1991Location:
4 Vulytsia Instytutska, Kyiv, UkraineMore information:
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Kyiv, Ukraine, 1991. Ukrainian workmen on scaffolding surrounding a 30-foot (8.9 m) statue of Vladimir Lenin. The granite statue stood overlooking what was October Revolution Square during the Soviet times. After Ukrainian Independence and the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Square on Khreshchatyk street in central Kyiv was renamed Independence Square. The statue was removed from the square in 1991. In 2015 what was called “Decommunization in the Ukraine” the Ukrainian parliament passed legislation banning the promotion of symbols of “Communist and National Socialist totalitarian regimes.” There were more than 5, 500 Lenin monuments in the Ukraine in 1991, by the end of 2015 only 1, 300 of the statures remained.