Monument of the Great October Revolution

Monument of the Great October Revolution was a Soviet monument that was located on the October Revolution Square from 1977-1991 in Kiev, at the time the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic as part of the Soviet Union. It was removed in 1991 as part of the decommunisation of Ukraine following independence.

Description

The monument had a form of a granite pylon with a figure of Vladimir Lenin out of red granite. In front of the pylon there were four bronze figures of male and female workers, peasant and sailor, each in height. The whole composition was located on a granite stylobate.

The Monument of the Great October Revolution was erected in 1977 by Ukrainian communist officials to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. During the 1990 Revolution on Granite, the monument was used by anti-communist student activists as a shield against a nearby bomb planted in the area. Following Ukrainian independence in 1991 and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the majority of monuments to Lenin were destroyed. This included the Monument of the Great October Revolution being toppled. The destruction of the monument was ordered by the Kyiv City State Administration and the toppled statue was taken to the property of the privatised ""Ukrrestavratsiya" where its fate was unknown. The pedestal initially remained and was used for mounting advertising boards for a camera shop the following year.

The following architects designed and built the monument: