Lenin monuments in the Barents Region

Bust of Lenin in the military ghost town of Korzunova on the Kola Peninsula. Click on the image for more photos. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

This newly white painted bust of Lenin is placed near the smelter in Nikel on the Kola Peninsula.

Maybe this Lenin statue in Arkhangelsk is the largest in the Barents Region? You find it on the central square with the city administration in the back and the regional parliament across the street. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

In Salekhard, the capital of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the Lenin monument stands in front of the administration building. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

Lenin in front of the Regional Duma in Arkhangelsk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

1st of May rally in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

Lenin in front of the Cultural Palace in Nikel on the Kola Peninsula. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

The world's first civilian nuclear powered vessel is named after Lenin and is today moored alongside the pier in the central harbor of Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

Lenin in Norilsk on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

Lenin in Petrozavodsk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

Lenin monument in the capital of Karelia, Petrozavodsk.

Lenin monument alongside the Lenin Prospekt in Murmansk. Photo: Thomas Nilsen

Lenin monument on the square in Kargopol, Arkhangelsk Oblast. Photo: Bjørn Frantzen

Lenin on the wall on board the Soviet Union's very first nuclear powered icebreaker named after the man himself "Lenin". Photo: Atle Staalesen

Lenin bust in Barentsburg, the Russian settlement on Svalbard. Photo: Nicole Merten

Lenin(s) on the bookshelf in Nesseby, Norway. Photo: Thorbjørn Bjørkli

Lenin(s) on the wallshelf in Nesseby, Norway. Photo: Thorbjørn Bjørkli