Countries around the world periodically compete in the construction of the highest architectural objects. The winners are entered into the Guinness Book. The height limit was 25 meters. There is a list of the highest statues in the world. This list includes the largest monument to Lenin in the world.
Above 25 meters
This list includes 58 objects, or rather statues, whose height equals or exceeds 25 meters. All statues are built in full height, and their height is considered without a pedestal.
The world's highest statue depicts the Buddha of the Spring Temple. It is located in the Henan province of the People's Republic of China. Its height is 128 meters without a pedestal. The monument was built in 2002. The idea of building such a statue appeared after the explosion of Buddha statues in Afghanistan by the Taliban. China has condemned such barbaric, and moreover, systematic destruction of the Buddha's legacy.
It is noteworthy that the top three of the world's highest monuments consists of Buddha statues. Second highest (115.82 meters)the Buddha statue is located in Myanmar (built in 2008), and the third, hundred-meter, is in Japan, in the city of Usik, 50 kilometers from Tokyo. It was built in 1995.
The world's largest monument to Lenin is 53 on this list.
Statues of Russia
The top ten highest world statues include the Russian monument "The Motherland Calls!". This 85-meter monument is dedicated to the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad and was built on Mamaev Kurgan in the Russian city of Volgograd. This is an allegorical image of the Motherland, which calls its sons to battle with enemies. It was built in 1967.
By the way, the New York Statue of Liberty is significantly inferior to the Russian statue. Its height is 46 meters. But the Ukrainian "Motherland", standing on the high bank of the Dnieper in Kyiv, reaches 62 meters.
Among the largest Russian statues are the 35.5-meter "Alyosha" (a memorial complex in Murmansk), as well as the largest monument to Lenin in the world - 27-meter - in Volgograd, - and "Soldier and Sailor" (monument to the defenders of Sevastopol, 27 meters).
Finally, the list of the world's highest statues is concluded by two 25-meter Russian monuments - "Worker and Collective Farm Woman" and another monument to V. I. Lenin in Dubna.
Where is the biggest monument to Lenin
It would seem that the largest monument is located somewhere in Moscow or St. Petersburg. But still, the largest monument to Lenin in the world is located in Volgograd. It is not just tall, it is truly gigantic: together with the pedestal - 57 meters inheight, and the sculpture of the leader itself is 27 meters. It is not difficult to find it: the building is located right on the banks of the Volga in the Krasnoarmeisky district.
Interestingly, another political leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, used to replace the giant Lenin. This monument was erected in 1952, in honor of the opening of the Volga-Don Canal, during the Stalin era. The authorship belonged to the famous Soviet sculptor Vuchetich, who also developed the Mamaev Kurgan project. Stone Stalin was much lower than Lenin - only 24 meters. However, its uniqueness was that the rarest native copper was used to create it. However, the monument stood for only nine years (until the fall of the Stalinist regime), and then was destroyed overnight. Only an empty pedestal remained, which the people called "stump".
And in 1973, the largest monument to Lenin in the world was erected on this very spot (photo above). By the way, the famous Vuchetich again took up the project. Initially, they planned to make only a bust of the leader. But then such an idea was discarded, and a “whole” Lenin appeared in Volgograd. Monolithic concrete was used to create the monument, and the pedestal was overlaid with tiles. By the way, Volgograd Lenin weighs nine thousand tons! It is even listed in the Guinness Book of Records, because the largest monument to Lenin is the largest monument ever created in honor of a real person.
Second largest
The second largest monument to Lenin is located in the science city of Dubna. He wascreated by the sculptor S. M. Merkurov, who, by the way, owns the authorship of another of the highest monuments to Lenin in the world. It was built in Yerevan and is 19.5 meters high.
The monument in Dubna was built in 1937 and installed on the banks of the Volga, where the Moscow-Volga canal begins. It is made from natural stone. The height of this giant is 25 meters, and together with the pedestal - 37 meters. By weight, it reaches 540 tons.
The old-timers of Dubna still remember when on the opposite bank of the river there was a second monument of the same size to another leader - Stalin.
However, in 1961 it was removed, or rather, blown up, since it was not possible to dismantle it due to lack of blueprints.
Vandalism
In September of this year, radical participants in a rally called "For the Unity of Ukraine" destroyed the largest monument to Lenin in the world (in Kharkiv). The vandals had to tinker for a long time. First, they filed the legs of the statue, and only 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 the outside and did not even intervene.
What prevented the protesters from the stone Lenin is still not clear, but a year earlier attempts were made to demolish it. The authorities promised to punish the perpetrators, but so far nothing has been done. They did not restore the monument, but decided to dismantle it completely, along with the pedestal.
Monuments to Lenin in different countries
The Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper 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, but the monument to V. I. Lenin was erected in many foreign countries. 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.
There are monuments to Lenin in Great Britain, Norway, the Netherlands, India, Mongolia and other countries of the world. But the largest monument to Lenin in the world rightfully belongs to Russia. Because the figure of a revolutionary leader played a big role in the historical past of a huge country.
