Monument to Vladimir Lenin

Location: Tiraspol, Transnistria

Completed: 1987

Sculptor: Nikolai Tomsky

Genre: Soviet monument, former USSR

The granite monument in front of the building of the Transnistria Parliament is modelled on the 1970 Lenin statue that used to be on Leninplatz (now United Nations Square) in East Berlin and was dismantled in 1992. Both monuments were the work of renowned Soviet sculptor, Nikolai Tomsky who was the president of the USSR Academy of Arts from 1968 to 1983.

Monument to Vladimir Lenin in Tiraspol, Transnistria | Soviet monument | former USSR
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