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 and the statue removed from the square in 1991.
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3493 x 5153 px | 29.6 x 43.6 cm | 11.6 x 17.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
29 August 1991Location:
Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Independence Square, Kiev, UkraineMore information:
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Workmen after building scaffolding around a 50-foot marble statue of V.I. Lenin that was erected in 1977 overlooking Kiev’s city center. In 1991 the Ukraine lead other Soviet republics to secede from the Soviet Union, after independence the government decided to remove the huge monument to the founder of the Soviet Union in what is now called Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti). The statue was too heavy to lift with a crane and the city had planned to blow it up, but it was above the subway. The statue was eventually demolished using explosives. Photo by Chuck Nacke