With the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, many statues of Vladimir Lenin were torn down. Some remain, and some new ones have been erected. The reasons for this are potentially interesting; this is a list of these statues.

  • Archangelsk, Russia
  • Belfast (above the entrance to the Kremlin Bar), Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
  • Bender, Transnistria (breakaway region of Moldova)
  • Barentsburg, Svalbard, Norway
  • Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
  • Cavriago (near Reggio Emilia), Italy
  • Grutas, Lithuania
  • Kotka, Finland
  • Tiraspol, Transnistria
  • Minsk, Belarus
  • Rostov on Don, Russia
  • Harare, Zimbabwe
  • Khojand, Tajikistan
  • Havana, Cuba
  • Volchov, Russia
  • Poltava, Ukraine
  • Monino, Russia
  • Samara, Russia
  • Uljanovsk, Russia
  • Saratov, Russia
  • Volgograd, Russia
  • Zaporishshya, Ukraine
  • Uljanovsk, Russia
  • Moscow, Russia
  • Kiev, Ukraine
  • Yalta, Ukraine
  • Kharkov, Ukraine
  • St Petersburg, Russia
  • Thorsell, Sweden
  • St Petersburg, Russia
  • Moscow, Russia
  • Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Narva, Estonia
  • Kaliningrad, Russia
  • Vilnius, Lithuania
  • Hanoi, Vietnam
  • TaldyKorgan, Kazakstan
  • Freedom Park, Arlington, Virginia, USA (toppled and headless, the statue was shipped from St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • Fremont, Seattle, Washington, USA - near the Fremont Sunday market site. Shipped from Slovakia.
  • Vilnius, Lithuania
  • New York, NY, USA (Statue on top of the "red square" building on East Houston St.)
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