VI Lenin at Transnistrian Government Building, Tiraspol

VI Lenin in Tiraspol, Pridnestrovie

There are two extant images of VI Lenin in Tiraspol, the capital city of Pridnestrovie (Transnistria).

At the Transnistria Parliament Building

The first Soviet leader just seems to emerge from the tall, red, granite column on which he stands. His coat resembling the workers red flag, caught by the wind streaming out behind him.

This statue is modelled on a statue, by the same artist – Nikolai Tomsky – which used to stand in what was Leninplatz in East Berlin. The original statue was erected in 1970 but the one in Tiraspol wasn’t inaugurated until 1987. The one in Berlin was on a lower plinth and had a large panel behind VI Lenin so there wasn’t the same impression of him almost flying. The one in the German location was removed in 1992.

The list of the artists involved in the project are attached to a small plaque at the back of the statues plinth.

Nikolai Tomsky was also involved in the bas reliefs that decorate the ceiling of the Novokuznetskaya Metro station in Moscow. He also created the bust over the grave of JV Stalin which was installed when the body of the second Soviet leader was removed from the Lenin Mausoleum in October 1961.

Location;

In front of the building of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria Parliament) at 25th October Street 45

GPS;

46.83632 N

29.60651 E

VI Lenin at Tiraspol City Hall

At the Tiraspol City Hall

Unfortunately, there’s not a great deal of available information about this monument to VI Lenin. As far as I can learn the sculptor was G. Solominov but, so far, I have been unable to find any more information about him. There’s also no information of the year it was installed. I would guess the 1980s – as this seemed to be a time when there was a major impetus to install statues of the first Soviet leader as the revisionist leaders of that time – just before the collapse of the Soviet Union – were panicking and trying to establish their legitimacy.

It’s quite a unique representation of VI Lenin. It’s only a larger than life sized bust but he is depicted as wearing an overcoat with a huge collar – something I’ve never seen in photographs of him during his life time.

Location;

In front of the Tiraspol City Hall at 25th October Street, 101

GPS;

48.83701 N

29.62812 E

Moscow Metro – Ploshchad Ilyicha – Line 8

Ploshchad Ilyicha (Russian: Площадь Ильича) is a station on the Moscow Metro’s Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line. It was opened on 30 December 1979 as part of the line’s first stage.

It is named after the Ilyich Square (indirectly referring to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin by his patronymic). The square has since been renamed to Rogozhskaya Zastava Square.

The station is a deep-level pylon tri-vault design. The connotation of the location’s former name, influenced the architectural theme of the station realisation of Lenin’s ideas by architects L. Popov and V. Klokov and engineers Ye. Barsky and Yu. Murmotsev.

The station walls are faced with white koelga marble, which are punctuated by metallic artworks depicting the hammer and sickle. Thick cubic shaped pylons are faced with dark red marble seliyeti, ‘rest’ on a laboradorite socle. The floor is covered with red and grey granite, whilst lightning elements are mounted into a metallic carcass that is fixed to top of the vaults, a straight one for the central hall, and a zig-zagged shaped for the platform. At the rear of the central hall is a large bas-relief of Vladimir Lenin created by the People’s Artist of the USSR, Nikolai Tomsky.

The station’s vestibule, designed by architect I. Petukhova, is connected directly to the central hall by a three-escalator ascend, and is located underground under the Rogozhskaya Zastava square.

Text above from Wikipedia.