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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
100 years after Russian revolution, busts, monuments and symbols with Vladimir Lenin are still spread across the Barents Region.
November 06, 2017
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In the image gallery above, the Barents Observer has collected a few images of Vladimir Lenin in different versions from our photo archive. Maybe you have more?
Upload your Lenin at our Facebook page and let’s see how many there are in the Barents Region and Russia’s Arctic; in Murmansk Oblast, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Republic of Karelia, the Komi Republic and Nenets Autonomous Okrug or other locations in the high north.
This week, Russia’s Communist Party marks the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution with parades and rallies in many cities. On Tuesday, a big event takes place on the Pushkin Square in Moscow with guests from other countries’ communist parties, like China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba and several Latin American countries.
Lenin himself is still at display in the mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square, 93 after his death.
In Soviet times, thousands of Lenin monuments were erected across the world. Most in current and former communist states, but you will also find a few in the United States, Finland, Italy and France. In Norway, there are two at Svalbard: one in Barentsburg and one in the ghost town of Pyramiden.
Although many Lenin monuments were torn down by people happy to get rid of Soviet ideology in the early days after the fall of communism in 1991, there are still a few spread around in Barents Russia. Let’s see how many we can find.
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