Where are the monuments to Stalin. Monument to Stalin: photo and description

MOSCOW, September 21 - RIA Novosti, Victoria Salnikova. Recently, busts of Stalin appeared in several Russian cities at once. RIA Novosti found out who puts them and why.

Victims of repression

Surgut. Embankment of the Ob River. Last week, activists erected a bust of Joseph Stalin here. A gold plaque affixed to the monument reads in italics: "After death, a lot of rubbish will be placed on my grave, but the wind of history will dispel it." The monument stands only a few days, but it has already split the city of 350,000 into two camps. Some demand that it be demolished immediately, while others are ready to defend "Stalin's" right to life in court. True, the latter will have to try: the activists were in such a hurry to install the bust that they did not wait for the permission of the city administration.

Despite the illegal status of the monument, carnations are brought to it. They are the same color as the paint with which the ill-wishers are smearing the bust for the second time - red. Symbolism, which is difficult to ignore. If you stand with your back to the Ob River and look a little higher, you can see the place where another monument should appear - to the victims of political repression. This is indicated by a discreet sign. The place was not chosen by chance: here was the village of Black Cape, which was founded by peasants exiled to the Far North.

Denis Khanzhin, the initiator of the installation of the bust of Stalin, the leader of the Russian Spirit public organization, is sure that they have chosen the right place for it. From here, during the Great Patriotic War, residents of Surgut went to the front. To my question about the monument to the victims of political repression, he replies that he did not know about the plans.

“It is located more than a hundred meters away. This sign has been standing for many years, we didn’t even notice it. They still can’t collect six million. Although in 2012 they were allocated a budget million. We generally doubt that this monument will ever appears," he said.

The monument to the victims of repression was not erected for a banal reason - there is no money. Pavel Akimov, a descendant of the repressed peasants, said that they really received a grant, but this amount is not enough. “We believed that the city administration should erect a monument, but they pleaded a lack of funds. We have to do it on our own, and we are all pensioners. anniversary of terror," he said.

Denis believes that the problem around the monument to the repressed is "inflated" by the liberal-minded public. According to him, there are "many of them" in Surgut. "The repressed were convicted under articles. Naturally, there were innocent victims. We sympathize with these people. There should be a monument, but don't inflate it! 40 million ( According to the human rights organization Memorial, from 11 to 39 million people became victims of repression during the Soviet period, - ed.)! Who would work in the country if 40 million were imprisoned or shot!” he said.

Denis added that Joseph Stalin himself became a victim of political repression - in the Khrushchev era. But Pyotr Akimov is unlikely to agree with him, just like the descendants of the repressed who still live in Surgut - this is about a thousand people. The local university also spoke out against the installation of a bust of Stalin, so the controversy is ongoing at all levels. To my remark that the monument to the General Secretary electrified the atmosphere in the city, Denis replied that the people had long been divided "into the descendants of the winners and losers of the Great Patriotic War." “The losers are people who believe that we lived under the occupation of the Soviet Union, that the enemy government seized the Russian Empire, these are the same Vlasov and Bandera people who, when the Nazis came, immediately took their side. They were very many sent to Siberia. Work for the good of the Motherland," he added.

Now Denis and other activists are seeking legal status for the bust of Stalin. They created a petition on a popular Internet site: they want to recognize it as a cultural heritage. Pyotr Akimov is no less categorical: there should not be a bust in Surgut.

"When I found out about the installation, I immediately called the administration, they told me that it was illegal. There should have been a decision of the public council under the head of the city, the meeting will take place on September 30. There was a commission on toponymy, but it did not determine the place. Installation on municipal land rejected. And then they installed in front of our monument on municipal land without any agreement with the city administration. Eventually it will be demolished," Akimov said.

From Novosibirsk to Kazan

Surgut is not the only city where a monument to Stalin appeared. The bust of the "leader of the peoples" was recently erected by residents of the Sochi village of Plastunka with their own money. Two more can be installed in Kazan and Novosibirsk in the near future. Activists have already submitted projects. As in the case of Surgut, public opinion was divided.

Kazan activists plan to erect a monument in Victory Park on the Walk of Fame. Ravil Garifullin, a member of the initiative group, told RIA Novosti that now they are "overcoming the bureaucratic mechanism." Fundraising has not yet been announced, they want to start with the necessary documents.

"In our opinion, the contribution of Generalissimo Joseph Stalin to the victory over Nazi Germany is undeservedly underestimated. There were almost no citizens who clearly expressed their indignation against the installation of the monument. A couple of people said that they were repressed. But those repressed by law receive a 50 percent discount for everything - both for education and medicine. Do not forget, in that era, citizens were convicted by the court, it was not the lynching of one Stalin. We are talking in fact - the war was won, the merits are forgotten. For information, Stalin is still a Hero of the Soviet Union," he said.

In Novosibirsk, a bust of Stalin can be placed in the square of the Heroes of the Revolution, it is located in the city center. This is a memorial monument, on the territory of which there are mass graves of victims of the Civil War. The initiators are people from the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. According to activist Alexei Denisyuk, the fundraiser is open, in the near future they will order a bust from a sculptor in North Ossetia.

“We have been taking this initiative for a long time, since about 2006. Stalin was twice in Novosibirsk. At one time there were many monuments to him in our city. Although it is believed that Alexander III was the founder of Novosibirsk, he became the largest industrial, cultural and political center during the period of Stalin's leadership of the country. For us, Stalin is the great leader of the Soviet state, who in the shortest possible time was able to create an industry, prepare the country for defense and defeat Nazi Germany, "he said.

The decision to place the bust will be made on September 22 during a meeting of the city's artistic council.

Dmitry Kholyavchenko, a member of the administration of the Novosibirsk Open University, opposes the erection of a bust of Stalin. He created a petition on the Internet site, which has been signed by 760 people out of a thousand required.

“We are counting on the sound position of the artistic council. They should take into account the wishes of not only a small group of the population that wants to dump associations with some, in our opinion, unpleasant events in Russian history into the public space,” he said.

If a positive decision is made, Dmitry promises to initiate rallies and pickets. In his opinion, in Novosibirsk, where the descendants of the repressed live, there should not be a monument to Stalin.

“For many in Novosibirsk, repression is not an abstract problem, but the history of their family. We believe that Novosibirsk has already discredited itself as a city that has a pleasant cultural and ideological environment, if we recall the pressure, for example, on Monstration. This reduces its investment attractiveness We also believe that now is not the time to create unnecessary points of tension within society," Dmitry said.

Soft restalinization

Throughout history, the attitude towards Stalin in Russia has changed many times. During the reign of Nikita Khrushchev, active de-Stalinization was carried out, but under Leonid Brezhnev the leader was rehabilitated. Modern Russia, having gone through the stage of denial of the Soviet past in the 1990s, has now entered the phase of re-Stalinization.

"The Russian government, in terms of positioning and consolidating the population, repeats the political techniques of the Brezhnev period. Under him, the Soviet government built the consolidation of the population around the pivot of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The first Victory Parade took place in 1945, after this event it was not for 20 years - until 1965 year, the first year of Brezhnev's rule. The Russian authorities are copying these practices, and this requires Stalin's personality cult, but, of course, not on the scale it was under Stalin himself," said Pavel Salin, director of the Center for Political Studies at the Financial University.

Salin noted that mass mythology also influences the perception of the figure of Stalin. People quickly forget the bad, remember only the good - this is a feature of the psyche. “The majority of the population did not live in that era and they make an impression of it from the works that form mass mythology - books, films, etc. now it influences with a plus sign. We see that the figure of Stalin in the works of mass culture is covered either neutrally or moderately positively," he added.

The installation of a bust of Stalin in Surgut caused a great public outcry. Some argue that the appearance of the bust is quite justified, while others believe that this is "a mockery of the repressed." It is interesting that recently the image of the Soviet leader is becoming more and more popular. Museums in his honor, busts and monuments were opened in many cities. Details - in the material "Aif-Yugra".

Stalin outside the law

Monument to Joseph Stalin on the Ob embankment of Surgut in early September. According to the city authorities, the bust was erected illegally, and the activists will have to demolish the monument at their own expense.

“Law enforcement agencies are already drawing up an appropriate act. The decision to install the bust was officially submitted to the public council. The installation of the bust on the municipal territory was not coordinated with the authorities. And if the law enforcement agencies recognize the installation of the bust as illegal, the activists will have to dismantle the monument at their own expense, ”she said in an interview with an Aif-Yugra correspondent. Head of the Information Policy Department of the Surgut Administration Ekaterina Shvidkaya.

Despite the controversial figure of Joseph Stalin, many people were very hurt that the bust was installed near the place where the monument to the repressed should be.

“The Ob embankment is the most successful place from where people went to the front and where the evacuated fish cannery was located, which worked for the front,” said Aif-Yugra Head of the public organization "Russian Spirit" Denis Khanzhin. - The fact that there is a sign to the victims of repression, we saw during the opening of the bust, for us it was a surprise and a coincidence. We submitted an application to the commission on toponymy of the city, but they did not answer us within the prescribed 3-month period and illegally transferred their powers to the Public Council, which was not even created. We realized that the issue could drag on for years, officials are trying to hide behind the Stalin theme, so we had to act decisively, from the opposite. Let them now prove that we put the bust without asking.

Popularity is growing

The fashion for the installation of monuments to Stalin began in 2005. It was from that moment that the face of the leader began to decorate cities throughout the country. For example, in North Ossetia there are up to 24 monuments.

So, in 2005, a bust of Stalin was erected in Beslan.

On the 126th anniversary of the leader in the city of Digor, a “Bust of the Father of Nations” also appeared on a five-meter pedestal. In 2006, a bust of Stalin was also installed in Vladimir, in May 2011, a similar sculpture adorned the village of Sadovoe, Voronezh Region, and by the time of Victory Day. Over the past five years, monuments to Stalin have appeared in the Pskov region, Yakutsk, and the Republic of Mari El. In the latter, the monument is made on a grand scale, the leader is depicted in full growth, the height of the work, together with the pedestal, is about 5 meters.

In addition, in December 2015, a whole Stalin Center museum dedicated to Joseph Vissarionovich was opened in Penza. However, not in all cities, residents agree with the installation of monuments to the Soviet leader. So, this spring in Arkhangelsk, the commission on toponymy voted against the installation of a monument to Stalin.

“I don’t think that this is a revival of Stalin’s personality cult. It was just that at one time it was very profitable to pour mud on the figure of the Generalissimo, like the figure of Lenin, for example. But now, people are more advanced, it’s not a problem for anyone to know the whole story personally, - Natalya Kharina, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History, Philosophy and Law of Yugra State University, shared her opinion with Aif-Yugra. - And besides, because of the process of de-Stalinization, the figure of Stalin is now mainly associated with repressions and atrocities, but we must also remember that it was under Stalin that the war was won. It is impossible to say unequivocally that the figure of Joseph Vissarionovich is negative or positive, I treat him quite neutrally. It is impossible to put a historical person of such a plan only on one side of the barricades, one must remember both negative and positive aspects and draw conclusions from them. After all, that's what history is for, to learn from the past."

The appearance of a bust of Stalin in Surgut was received ambiguously. So, over the past week, the monument was painted twice with red paint, and the inscription “executioner” appeared on the side. But the activists do not stop there, now they are next to the scandalous monument to Stalin, the bust of Lavrenty Beria.

“For now, we are conducting a public opinion poll. We won't be doing anything this year. We are making plans for the future, we are analyzing the mistakes of installing Stalin's bust. This is a new topic for us, so not everything went smoothly. Our main task is to fight against oblivion, rewriting and denigration of our history, our heroes,” Denis Khanzhin told Aif-Yugra.

Activists plan to collect money for a new monument in the same way as for a bust of Stalin via the Internet. So, with the help of crowdfunding for a monument to Stalin, about 240 thousand rubles.

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And today will be a completely different topic. As you know, Stalin was the only leader of the USSR to whom monuments were erected during his lifetime. And literally in every city. Somewhere they were rather modest standard sculptures, and somewhere they were truly monumental works that for a long time became part of the image of the city. Thousands of tons of granite, the work of an army of builders and the best sculptors. Almost all of this was swept away overnight immediately after the XXII Congress of the CPSU, held in October 1961.
Now only local historians can remember where the formidable figure of the leader once stood in their city.
Let's remember too. Add information and photos about your city.

In the center stood a rather modest sculpture opposite the entrance to the Tretyakov Gallery (photo by Lawrence Monthey, 1959):

The monument, erected in 1939, after being dismantled, was moved to the courtyard of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

There was another monument in the capital.

Moscow Stalin Monument on Mechanization Square (1939):

Panorama:

Astrakhan

Balashov. Monument to Stalin in Kuibyshev park

Vilnius. Monument to Stalin at the station square

Vladimir. Cathedral Square

Burn. In Stalin's small homeland, a monument to him lasted until June 25, 2010:

Grozny. Monument to Stalin, corner of Ordzhonikidze Ave. and st. Cr. front-line soldiers. Demolished in 1957

Dubna

Yerevan:

Kaliningrad. View of the street Zhitomirskaya and the square, equipped between it and the street. Theater after the transfer to this place from the Victory Square of the monument to I.V. Stalin of the work of E. V. Vuchetich:

Now Mother Russia stands there:

Kyiv. Monument to Stalin on the square. Stalin (European) in the late 1930s:

Kislovodsk, 1954

Leningrad, Baltic Station

Makhachkala. Square them. Stalin (now Lenin). 1940s

Minsk, Central Square 1960

Minsk, Central Square 1961

Novorossiysk. Monument to I.V. Stalin near the cinema "Moscow"

Omsk, 1959

Petrozavodsk

Rostov-on-Don 1955

Sevastopol, railway railway station

Simferopol. Station Square, 1960-61

Smolensk, 1963

Sochi. Monument to Stalin near the Sochi circus on Kurortny Prospekt

Stavropol, 1955

Stalingrad, at the entrance to the Volga-Don Canal, 1958:

Stalingrad, city center:

Tallinn, 1955

Totma. The monument stood in the Freedom Fighters Park on the site of the current Victory Monument

Chernihiv, Red Square, 1954

Stalin's personality today is extraordinary and ambiguous. A person whose role in the history of the twentieth century is difficult to overestimate.

Some consider him a tyrant who ruined many lives (mass repressions, the great terror of 1937, etc.). For some, Stalin's death is associated with the end of terror and mass repression, the release of millions of innocent people from prisons.

Others consider him a hero, a great leader (he created a powerful state capable of competing on equal terms with the United States, made him a nuclear power, won the Great Patriotic War, etc.)

The first monument to I. V. Stalin was made by the sculptor M. Ya. Kharlamov in 1929, on the eve of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Stalin. Monuments to Stalin of considerable size, as a rule, were erected in the center of a city, village, settlement on the main street, square, often bearing the name of Stalin himself, near administrative buildings.

In Moscow, a monument to the leader was erected even in the altar of an Orthodox church

In 1935, the House of San Education was opened in Bolshaya Ordynka in the Pokrovsky Cathedral of the Marfo-Mariinsky Convent. They staged a scene in the altar, placing a statue of Stalin on the High Place.

Often Stalin was portrayed next to Lenin. The monument was called "Lenin and Stalin in Gorki". Such monuments with slight changes were in many cities of the Soviet Union.

After the 20th Congress of the CPSU, Stalin began to be removed from the twin monuments, leaving Lenin alone. In some places, such monuments have survived to this day.

After the XXII Congress of the CPSU in October 1961, at which it was decided to remove Stalin's body from the Mausoleum (the burial took place on October 31, 1961) and rename the city of Stalingrad to Volgograd, almost all the numerous monuments to Stalin that stood throughout the USSR were destroyed and dismantled as part of the final de-Stalinization.

The most famous monuments to Stalin

MOSCOW, RUSSIA

Monument to Stalin at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow

The monument was erected in 1939 for the opening of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSHV) in front of the pavilion "Mechanization and electrification of agriculture" (now "Pavilion No. 32", better known as the pavilion "Cosmos")

The height of the sculpture is 15 meters, the height of the pedestal is 10 meters

The monument was dismantled in 1951 in accordance with the post-war reconstruction plan of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition.

After the opening of the exhibition, a fountain appeared on the site of the old monument.

The new monument was supposed to appear on Kolkhoz Square, but in 1953 its place was taken by the parterre of the Stone Flower fountain.

Monument to Stalin in Muzeon Park of Arts in Moscow

At the World Exhibition of 1939 in New York, monuments to V. I. Lenin and I. V. Stalin, made in 1938 from pink granite, were exhibited. After the exhibition, a monument to V. I. Lenin was erected in Kyiv on Bessarabska Square, and a monument to I. V. Stalin was first in Moscow in Izmailovsky Park (then PKiO named after Stalin), during the "cult of personality" it was removed, and then, by decision of the Moscow City Council of People's Deputies of October 24, 1991, it was transferred to the Park of Arts.

The monument to Stalin was a small copy of the monument in Stalingrad on the Volga-Don canal. Later, such copies appeared in many cities of the USSR.

LENINGRAD, RUSSIA

Monuments to Stalin at the Baltic Station and on Poklonnaya Hill

Monuments to Stalin on Obukhovskoy Oborony Avenue and Srednyaya Rogatka

All of them were installed on the 70th anniversary of the leader, in 1949, and dismantled after the XX Congress of the CPSU

VOLGOGRAD (STALINGRAD), RUSSIA

Monument to Stalin in Stalingrad on the Volga-Don Canal

The height of the sculpture is 24 meters, the height of the pedestal is 30 meters.

In 1961, Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd, 10 days later, during one night, the monument was dismantled. The further fate of the sculpture of the leader of the peoples is unknown. After that, for 12 years, an empty pedestal stood on the embankment

In 1969, it was decided to install a monument to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on the pedestal.

The height of the sculpture is 27 meters, the height of the pedestal is 30 meters.

TRANSSIBERIAN HIGHWAY, RUSSIA

Bust of Stalin at 7031 (now 6999) km of the Trans-Siberian Railway to the west of the village. Amazar, Trans-Baikal Territory

The bas-relief was built during the construction of the second tracks of the Trans-Siberian Railway by unknown prisoners in 1936. The base of the bust was a stone remnant ~ 6 m high, located on the top of a ridge at the bend of the railway. Stone, brick, iron fittings and concrete were used as materials. The bust, covered with lime, ~ 3 m high, was clearly visible from the line of the iron carriage.

Approaching the location of the monument, train drivers gave a warning horn so that passengers could see the monument to the leader.
By the 70th anniversary of Stalin (December 21, 1949), at night, searchlights began to illuminate the bust. Excursion groups often visited here, a solemn reception was held as pioneers.
On the day of Stalin's funeral, a meeting was held between the passengers of two oncoming trains.
In March 1956, it was announced that there was a threat of collapse of the rock mass with the bust on the railway and on September 20, 1956, the bust was blown up.

YEREVAN, ARMENIA

Monument to Stalin in Yerevan, Armenia

The monument was erected in 1950

In 1967, the monument was dismantled, Stalin was removed from the pedestal, Mother Armenia was placed

"Mother Armenia" monument in Haghtanak (Victory) park in Yerevan

Opened in honor of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War in 1967

The height of the statue is 22 meters, the height of the paste is 32 meters

At the base of the monument is the Museum of the Ministry of Defense, which exhibits exhibits from the times of the Great Patriotic and Karabakh wars: personal belongings, weapons, documents and portraits of heroes. Around the pedestal are exhibited samples of weapons of that time.

MINSK, BELARUS

Monument to Stalin on the Central (October) Square in Minsk, Belarus

The pedestal of the monument to Stalin on the Central Square in Minsk was girded with a Belarusian national ornament.
It served as a reminder that Soviet Belarus owed its creation to a decisive degree to Comrade Stalin, People's Commissar for Nationalities.

On November 3, 1961, the monument was literally "razed to the ground". In the evening, the square was cordoned off along the entire perimeter, and about two hundred onlookers watched what was happening from the square in front of the House of Officers, a residential building on the street. Engels and nearby courtyards. The monument was hooked to the torso with a steel cable as thick as an arm, and two tank tractors set to work. On the first try, although the engines roared at full power, the monument did not even sway - the tank caterpillars helplessly scratched the paving stones with which the square was paved. The second and third attempts also failed. After some time, the monument to the leader still managed to shake and knock down, and the pedestal was blown up and taken out in pieces. The resulting hole was concreted. By morning, it was even difficult to find the place where the monument stood on the square, and on November 7, a military parade and a demonstration of workers took place on the renovated square.

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY

Monument to Stalin in Budapest, Hungary

It was installed in December 1951 as a gift from the Hungarian people on Stalin's seventieth birthday (December 21, 1949).

The height of the bronze statue of Stalin is 8 meters, the height of the pedestal is 17 meters

The monument stood on Dózsa György Avenue, destroyed on October 24, 1956 by a crowd during the 1956 Hungarian uprising.

On October 23, 1956, a crowd of rebellious Hungarians destroyed the statue, leaving only his boots, in which the Hungarian flag was hoisted. The bronze inscription "Leader, teacher and best friend of the Hungarian people" was torn off its pedestal.
After the events of 1956, the empty pedestal was reconstructed and for a long time was used as a government platform during festive processions and demonstrations.
In the early 1990s, the remains of the pedestal-tribune were finally dismantled.

In 2006, in the sculpture park of the socialist era in Budapest (Memento Park), a brick pedestal and the lower part of the sculpture - Stalin's boots - were reproduced in a reduced form.

Chopped-off Stalinist tops have become one of the peculiar symbols of the Hungarian revolution.

GORI, GEORGIA

Monument to Stalin in Gori, Georgia

Installed in 1952

The height of the statue is 6 meters, the height of the 3-tiered pedestal is 9 meters.

They wanted to remove the monument in 1956 and even tried to do it, but the population of Gori pitched tents and guarded the monument day and night.

On the night of June 24-25, 2010, the monument to Stalin was dismantled for subsequent transfer. In its place, a monument dedicated to those who died during the August 2008 war will be erected.

The dismantling of the statue was organized at night in order to avoid protests from the local population, some of which are categorically against the transfer of the monument. At the same time, the surrounding area was cordoned off, journalists were not allowed to shoot.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Monument to Stalin in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

The monument was erected in 1949.

After the XX Congress of the CPSU, despite the personal request of Nikita Khrushchev, the government of Mongolia refused to dismantle the monument. The monument stood in front of the Mongolian National Library until 1990.

The dismantled statue was sprinkled with milk and milk vodka. This was done in order "so that the spirit of Stalin thus propitiated would never return." The sculpture was sent for storage to the utility rooms of the library, where it was stored in a specially made wooden box. The pedestal of the monument was also dismantled.

In 2001, a four-meter statue of Stalin was purchased by an entrepreneur and installed in the summer cafe "Ismus".

In June 2005, in its place, a monument to Stalin was solemnly opened a monument to the Mongolian scientist B. Rinchin.

TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN

Monument to Stalin in the Square of Revolution in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

(Mourning meeting in March 1953)

The monument was opened in the late 40s on the anniversary of Stalin

In 1962, the monument was dismantled, and the pedestal was used for the monument "Peace Labor Freedom ..." The people called this monument "Russian-Uzbek dictionary". He stood until 1968. From 1968 to 1993 there was a monument to Marx on this site.

On August 31, 1994, on the eve of the third anniversary of Uzbekistan's independence, the square was renamed "Amir Temur Square", and a new monument was opened in its center - a bronze equestrian monument to Tamerlane.

In November 2009, old elms and plane trees, many of which were over 100 years old and which were a symbol of the square, were cut down by decision of the authorities and everything became bare again.

ODESSA, UKRAINE

Monument to Stalin in Odessa, Ukraine

In the post-war years, a giant model of the USSR was created on the lawn in the city garden. And in the middle stood a monument to the leader. Odessans, who lived at that time, still remember the post-war years with the words: "Life was hungry. But fun." The terrible war was over.

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

Monument to Stalin in Prague ("The people of Czechoslovakia - their liberator")

Nikita Khrushchev came to the opening of the monument and presented it to the creators of the Order of Lenin.

The weight of the monument is 14,000 tons, length - 22, width - 12 and height - 15 meters, consists of 32 thousand stone fragments

After the XX Congress of the CPSU, at which the First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee N. S. Khrushchev sharply criticized I. V. Stalin, it was decided to dismantle the monument. In 1962, the sculptural composition was blown up. After the first explosion, only the granite blocks of the cladding crumbled, exposing the reinforced concrete structure. In order to finally destroy the monument, it took the second and third explosions. The last one was held on the eve of the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, on November 7, 1962. The operation to eliminate the sculpture cost 4.5 million crowns, while the construction cost 140 million (according to some sources, 260 million crowns).

In 1991, in Prague, for the duration of the General Czechoslovak Exhibition, it was decided to put a giant metronome on the old pedestal at the site of the Stalin monument. The length of the rod was 20 meters. According to the original plan, the metronome was to be dismantled at the end of the exhibition, but then the city authorities decided to leave the attraction.

The club "For Old Prague" came up with an unusual idea: to add to the list of historical monuments protected by the state, the basement of the former monument to Joseph Stalin. The proposal of the club is due to the fact that the magistrate is thinking about the idea of ​​opening an Oceanarium for 250 sea fish in Letná, which, in particular, will use the monument's granite platform.

Russia - 93
Ukraine - 10
Georgia - 35
South Ossetia - 3
Lithuania - 3
Estonia - 2
Azerbaijan - 2
Belarus - 5
Kazakhstan - 3
Tajikistan - 2
Uzbekistan - 2
Czech Republic - 5
China - 3
Netherlands - 3
USA - 2

Monuments to Stalin are also installed in Belgium, Hungary, India, Albania, Mongolia, Germany, Slovakia....

In the post-Soviet period, old and new monuments to Stalin were restored, first of all, in many cities and towns of Georgia (Kutaisi, Zestaponi, Zemo-Alvani, Sighnaghi, Dusheti, Khashuri, Tkibuli and other places), Dagestan (Chokh), North and South Ossetian (Vladikavkaz, Mozdok, Beslan, Chikola, Ardon, Mizur, Digora, Alagir, Zmeyskaya, Nogir, Kadgaron).

In addition to North Ossetia, monuments to Stalin in Russia were erected in public places in Moscow, Vladimir, Sochi, Novocherkassk, Nizhny Novgorod, Atkarsk, Mirny, Chelyabinsk (school-gymnasium No. 2), in the village of Taiginka (Kyshtym, Chelyabinsk region), now a monument from Taiginka moved to the city of Satka, Orenburg, Tambov, Chita, Penza, on October Square in the city of Ishim, in Vyritsa (Leningrad region), in the Tyumen region, in the museum of the Skuratovo railway station in the Tula region and other places.

Most of the modern monuments to Stalin in North Ossetia, as well as newly discovered monuments in Orenburg, Penza, p. Sadovoye and Tambov are typical busts cast from concrete according to the model of the Ossetian sculptor M.N. Dzboev.

In the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow, there is a bust of Stalin as one of the commanders of the Red Army. The issue of erecting a monument to Stalin on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow was discussed. In 2009, according to the chief architect of Moscow, Alexander Kuzmin, it was planned to return the Stalin monument to the lobby of the Kurskaya metro station in Moscow, but the former mayor of Moscow, Yu. M. Luzhkov, denied this assertion.

In Kaliningrad in 2005, on the stele of the memorial to 1200 guardsmen of the 11th Guards Army who died during the assault on Koenigsberg, the Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" was engraved. with a profile of Stalin.

In the village of Starye Burasy, Saratov Region, two full-length monuments to Lenin and Stalin stand side by side. It is not known whether these are new monuments or preserved from Soviet times.

In the village of Konevo, Arkhangelsk region, near the local substation, a full-length monument to Stalin has been preserved. Most likely, this is not a new monument, but an old one, preserved since the 1950s.

In the early 2000s (in 2001 and 2003) there were several attempts to install a bust of Stalin on the central square of Makhachkala, for which permission was obtained from the city administration, but subsequently it was withdrawn. In 2005, a memorial plaque with a bas-relief of Stalin was installed on one of the buildings located on the Railway Station Square in Makhachkala, in memory of the stay of I.V. Stalin at the Port-Petrovsky railway station in 1920.

In the village of Lashmanka, Cheremshansky district of Tatarstan, there is a full-length monument to Stalin (model of the 1930s).

In the village of Dolina, Ussuriysky District, Primorsky Territory, busts of Lenin and Stalin were erected in a private courtyard called the “Alley of Communism”.

On May 9, 2012, a bust of I.V. Stalin was installed in the center of the village of Novokayakent, Kayakent region of Dagestan.

Outside of Georgia, Russia, South Ossetia, monuments to Stalin have been erected or restored in some places in Belarus (in the cities of Slutsk, Svisloch), Lithuania (in the city of Druskininkai), Azerbaijan (in the villages of Alibeyli, Gakh district and Astrokhanovka, Oguz district), Ukraine, and Albania , the Netherlands (in the cities of Amsterdam, The Hague) and in many cities and towns in China (in the cities of Harbin, Shenyang, Changchun, etc.).

On May 5, 2010, in the Ukrainian Zaporozhye, the communists erected a bust of Stalin on the territory of the headquarters of the regional party committee. This caused a mixed reaction both among the citizens of Zaporozhye and in Ukraine as a whole. The bust was blown up by unknown persons on December 31, 2010. The Communists restored the Stalin monument to the next anniversary of the October Revolution. On November 7, 2011, the monument to Stalin was opened in its original place. Together with him, a monument to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was erected.

In June 2012, a monument to Stalin was erected in Bratislava (Slovakia) on Sztura Square

Near Odessa, an open-air Museum of Monuments of the USSR was opened, in which monuments to Lenin and Stalin are located. On the eve of Victory Day over Germany, on May 8, 2013, a monument was opened - a bust of Stalin in Yakutsk, on the territory of one of the diamond mining enterprises of the republic. He is the third in a row in Yakutia. The first was opened in 2005 in the city of Mirny, and the second in 2009 in the village of Amga, Amginsky district of Yakutia. The opening of the monument provoked protests from human rights activists and the local Yakut and Lena diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

On September 1, 2013, in a solemn atmosphere, at the initiative of the public organization "Stalineli", a monument to Stalin was opened in Telavi (Georgia). However, on September 7, the city authorities demanded that the monument be dismantled within five days. The monument was dismantled on December 31, 2014.

In Volgograd, a new monument was erected on the territory of the Prichal Recreation Center.

February 4, 2015 in the Crimea, in Yalta, on the territory of the Livadia sanatorium, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Yalta Conference, a monument to the "Great Three" to Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt was erected.