countries all over the world compete occasionally in the construction of the highest architectural objects.The winners are entered in the Guinness Book.The limitation was the height of 25 meters.There is a list of the highest statues in the world.The list and hit the biggest monument to Lenin in the world.
above 25 meters
The list includes 58 objects, statues or rather, the height of which is equal to or greater than 25 meters.All the statues erected in full length and their height is considered to be without a pedestal.
highest international statue depicts Spring Temple Buddha.It is located in Henan Province of China.Its height is 128 meters without pedestal.The monument was built in 2002.The idea of building a statue appeared after the explosion of the Buddha statues by the Taliban in Afghanistan.China condemns such barbaric, besides the systematic destruction of the heritage of the Buddha.
is noteworthy that three of the world's highest Monument is just one of the Buddha statues.The second highest (115.82 meters) statue of Buddha is located in Myanmar (built in 2008), and the third hundred-meter - in Japan, in the city of antennae, 50 kilometers from Tokyo.It was built in 1995.
biggest monument to Lenin in the world ranked 53 in this list.
Statues Russian
The ten highest statues of the world included Russian monument "The Motherland Calls!".This 85-meter high monument dedicated to the heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad and erected on Mamayev Kurgan in the Russian city of Volgograd.It is an allegorical image of the motherland, which is calling their sons into battle with the enemy.It was built in 1967.
By the way, New York Statue of Liberty is considerably inferior to the Russian statue.Its height is 46 meters.But Ukrainian "Motherland", standing on the high bank of the Dnieper in Kiev, reaches 62 meters.
Among the biggest Russian statues - 35.5-meter "Alyosha" (memorial in Murmansk), as well as the biggest monument to Lenin in the world - a 27-meter - Volgograd - and "the soldiers and sailors" (monument to the defenders of Sevastopol27 meters).
Finally, conclude the list of the world's highest statues of the two 25-meter monument to Russian - "Worker and Collective Farm" and another monument to Lenin in Dubna.
where the biggest monument to Lenin
It would seem that the biggest monument is located somewhere in Moscow or St. Petersburg.Still, the biggest monument to Lenin in the world is located in Volgograd.He is not just tall, he really huge: with pedestal - 57 meters high, the sculpture itself as the leader - 27 meters.Find it is not difficult: the construction is located right on the banks of the Volga in the Krasnoarmeysk district.
interesting that earlier in place of the giant Lenin was another political leader of the Soviet Union - Joseph Stalin.This monument was established in 1952 in honor of the Volga-Don canal, at the time of Stalin's rule.The authorship belonged to the famous Soviet sculptor Vucetic, who also developed the project of Mamayev Kurgan.Stone Stalin, Lenin was much lower - only 24 meters.However, the uniqueness of it was that was used to create it rare native copper.However, the monument stood for nine years (before the fall of the Stalinist regime), and then in one night destroyed.There was only an empty pedestal, which is popularly nicknamed "stump."
And in 1973 this place was built the biggest monument to Lenin in the world (photo above).By the way, the project once again took the famous Vucetich.Originally planned to make only a bust of the leader.But then, this idea has been abandoned, and in Volgograd there was a "whole" Lenin.To create the monument was used in situ concrete, and a pedestal surrounded the tiles.By the way, Volgograd Lenin weighs nine thousand tons!He even listed in the Guinness Book of Records, as the largest statue of Lenin - a huge monument ever created in honor of a real person.
second largest
second largest statue of Lenin is in the science city Dubna.It was created by sculptor SM Merkurov, which, by the way, is the author of another of the highest monuments to Lenin in the world.It was built in Yerevan, its height is 19.5 meters.
Monument in Dubna was built in 1937 and is set on the banks of the Volga, where originates channel Moscow - Volga.It is made of natural stone.The height of this giant is 25 meters, and with a pedestal - 37 meters.By weight it reaches 540 tons.
Dubna Old-timers still remember when the river was the second largest of the same monument to another leader - Stalin.
However, in 1961 it was removed, or rather blown up, as did not happen to dismantle because of the lack of drawings.
vandalism
In September, radical participants in the meeting titled "For the unity of Ukraine" have destroyed the biggest monument to Lenin in the world (in Kharkov).Vandals had a long time to tinker.At first they sawed the statue feet, and only then with the help of ropes pulled it with a huge pedestal.At the same time, law enforcement officials silently watched the situation from the outside and did not intervene.
The protesters prevented stone Lenin - is still not clear, but a year earlier attempts to demolish it.Authorities promised to punish the culprits, but so far nothing has been done.Restoring the monument did not, and decided to dismantle completely, together with the pedestal.
monument to Lenin in different countries
newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets" provides data that in Russia in 2003, there were about 1,800 monuments to Lenin, as well as a large number of busts.It is clear that in all the former Soviet republics were also monuments to the leader of the proletariat.Although after the collapse of the USSR, some of them are torn down.
Surprisingly, but a monument to Lenin was erected in many countries abroad.According to some sources, there were 23 such countries and even in Antarctica, there is a monument to Lenin, built on the site of its Antarctic station named "Pole of Inaccessibility."
Monuments Lenin have in the UK, Norway, the Netherlands, India, Mongolia and other countries.But the biggest monument to Lenin in the world rightfully belongs to Russia.Because the figure of a revolutionary leader played a major role in the historical past of the vast country.
