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Monument of the Great October Revolution
Monument of the Great October Revolution in front of the Moscow Hotel (now Hotel Ukraine)
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LocationKiev, Ukrainian SSR
DesignerVasyl Borodai, Ivan Znoba, Valentyn Znoba
TypeMonument composition
Materialgranite, bronze
Height18.4 m (60 ft)
Completion date22 October 1977; 46 years ago (1977-10-22)
Dedicated toOctober Revolution
Dismantled date12 September 1991; 32 years ago (1991-09-12)
Due to 2015 Ukrainian decommunization laws all communist monuments in Ukraine legally have to be dismantled.[1]

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]

  1. ^ Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization. Ukrayinska Pravda. 15 May 2015
    Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes, Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 20
    Poroshenko: Time for Ukraine to resolutely get rid of Communist symbols, UNIAN. 17 May 2015
    Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols, BBC News (14 April 2015)
  2. ^ Susman, Tina, "Ukrainians Prepare to Pull Down Statue of 'Bloodstained' Lenin," AP Online, August 30, 1991."
  3. ^ A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples by Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto Press, 2010, ISBN 1442610212 (page 563/564 & 722/723)

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