VI Lenin in Balykchi – Kyrgyzstan – 03
VI Lenin in Balykchi – Kyrgyzstan
This is an unusual monument to VI Lenin – or at least I haven’t seen anything similar.
Here we have an image of the head of Vladimir Ilyich in a metal frame that sits on the roof of a building on the edge of Balykchi.
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How it’s constructed I’m unable to say as I wasn’t able to get any closer than looking up from the street. Whether it’s possible to get up on the roof I also can’t say – bad planning meaning I was pushed for time and couldn’t investigate any options.
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The building is now a driving school but don’t know what it might have been during Soviet times which merited such a roof top decoration. The image appears to be in a good condition so someone must have taken care of the framework over the decades.
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(A lot of ‘unknowns’ here, sorry for the lack of any more information.)
Location;
The building is alongside the A363, on the western edge of the town, about 200m from, and on the same side as, the bus station.
GPS;
42.45146 N
76.17081 E
an extraordinary piece that makes an otherwise ordinary building memorable in every way.
My only regret is that I couldn’t/didn’t get any closer to show exactly how the image was produced.