The largest monument to Lenin in the world. The biggest monument to Lenin

Countries all over the world periodically compete in the construction of the highest architectural objects. Winners are entered in the Guinness Book. The height was 25 meters. There is a list of the highest statues in the world. This list also includes the largest monument to Lenin in the world.

Above 25 meters

This list includes 58 objects, or rather statues, whose height is equal to or exceeds 25 meters. All the statues are built in full height, and their height is considered without a pedestal.

The highest world statue depicts the Buddha of the Spring Temple. It is located in Henan Province of the People's Republic of China. Its height is 128 meters without pedestal. The monument was built in 2002. The idea of the construction of such a statue appeared after the Taliban explosion of Buddha statues in Afghanistan. China condemned such barbarous, besides systematic destruction of the Buddha's heritage.

It is noteworthy that the trio of the highest world monuments consists precisely of Buddha statues. The second highest (115.82 meters) Buddha statue is in Myanmar (built in 2008), and the third, one hundred meter, in Japan, in the city of Usiku, 50 kilometers from Tokyo. It was built in 1995.

The largest monument to Lenin in the world takes 53rd place on this list.

Statues of Russia

The ten of the highest world statues include the Russian monument "Motherland Calls!". This 85-meter monument is dedicated to the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad and built on the Mamayev Hill in the Russian city of Volgograd. It is an allegorical image of the Motherland, which calls its sons to battle with the enemies. It was built in 1967.

By the way, the New York Statue of Liberty is much inferior to the Russian statue. Its height is 46 meters. But the Ukrainian "Motherland", standing on the high bank of the Dnieper in Kiev, reaches 62 meters.

Among the largest Russian statues is the 35.5-meter "Alesha" (a memorial complex in Murmansk), as well as the largest monument to Lenin in the world - a 27-meter-high in Volgograd, and "Soldier and Sailor" (monument to the defenders of Sevastopol, 27 Meters).

Finally, a list of the highest world statues includes two 25-meter Russian monuments - "Worker and Collective Farm Girl" and another monument to Vladimir Lenin in Dubna.

Where is the biggest monument to Lenin

It would seem that the most large-scale monument is located somewhere in Moscow or St. Petersburg. But still the largest monument to Lenin in the world is in Volgograd. He is not just tall, he's really gigantic: with the pedestal - 57 meters in height, and the sculpture of the leader is 27 meters high. Find it is not difficult: the structure is located right on the Volga River in the Krasnoarmeysky district.

It is interesting that earlier in place of the giant Lenin was another political leader of the Soviet Union - Joseph Stalin. This monument was established in 1952, in honor of the opening of the Volga-Don Canal, during the time of Stalin's rule. The authorship belonged to the famous Soviet sculptor Vuchetich, who also worked on the Mamayev Kurgan project. Stone Stalin was much lower than Lenin - only 24 meters. However, its uniqueness was in the fact that for its creation a rare native copper was used. However, the monument stood only nine years (before the fall of the Stalin regime), and then overnight was destroyed. Remained only an empty pedestal, which in the people called "hemp".

And in 1973, in this very place, the biggest monument to Lenin in the world was erected (photo above). By the way, the famous Vuchetich again took up the project. Originally planned to do only a bust of the leader. But then such an idea was abandoned, and in Volgograd a "whole" Lenin appeared. To create the monument monolithic concrete was used, and the pedestal was overlaid with tiles. By the way, Volgograd Lenin weighs nine thousand tons! He even entered the Guinness Book of Records, because the largest monument to Lenin is the largest monument ever created in honor of a real person.

Second by size

The second largest monument to Lenin is in the science city of Dubna. It was created by the sculptor SM Merkurov, who, by the way, belongs to the authorship of one of the highest monuments to Lenin in the world. It is built in Yerevan, its height is 19.5 meters.

The monument in Dubna was built in 1937 and is located on the bank of the Volga, where the Moscow-Volga canal begins. It is made of natural stone. The height of this giant is 25 meters, and together with the pedestal - 37 meters. By weight it reaches 540 tons.

Old residents of Dubna still remember when on the opposite bank of the river stood the second, the same largest monument to another leader - Stalin.
However, in 1961 it was removed, or rather, blown up, as it was not possible to dismantle due to the lack of drawings.

The act of vandalism

In September of this year, the radical-minded participants of the rally called "For Unity of Ukraine" destroyed the largest monument to Lenin in the world (in Kharkov). Vandals had a long tussle. First they sawed the statue of the leg, and then, with the help of cables, pulled it off a huge pedestal. At the same time, representatives of law enforcement agencies silently observed the situation from outside and did not even interfere.

What prevented the stone Lenin protesters - is still not clear, but a year earlier, attempts were made to demolish it. The authorities promised to punish the perpetrators, but nothing has been done so far. Restore the monument did not, but decided to dismantle completely, along with the pedestal.

Monuments to Lenin in different countries

The newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets reported that in Russia in 2003 there were about 1800 monuments to Lenin, as well as a large number of busts. It is clear that in all the former Soviet republics there were also monuments to the leader of the proletariat. Although after the collapse of the USSR, some of them were demolished.

Surprisingly, the monument to Lenin was erected in many countries far abroad. According to some reports, there were 23 such countries. And even in Antarctica there is a monument to Lenin, it was built on the site of the Antarctic station called "The Pole of Inaccessibility."

Monuments to Lenin are in Great Britain, Norway, the Netherlands, India, Mongolia and other countries of the world. But the biggest monument to Lenin in the world rightfully belongs to Russia. Because the figure of the revolutionary-leader played a big role in the historical past of a huge country.