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A falling Lenin Monument in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine

Statue of Lenin toppled near Stanytsia

The statue of Lenin in Kharkiv on 29 September 2014

Lenin monument in Kyiv on 9 December 2013

Clockwise from top left:

A falling Lenin monument in Khmelnytskyi
Statue of Lenin toppled near Stanytsia Luhanska
The Lenin monument in Kyiv on 9 December 2013
The statue of Lenin in Kharkiv on 29 September 2014

The demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine began during the collapse of the Soviet Union and continued on a smaller scale throughout the 1990s, primarily in some western towns of Ukraine. However, by 2013, most Lenin statues across Ukraine were still intact. During the 2013–2014 Euromaidan protests, the destruction of statues became widespread, a phenomenon that came to be popularly known as Leninopad^[a] (or Leninfall in English.)^[1] The use of "-пад" being akin to English words suffixed with "fall" as in "waterfall" and "snowfall".

History

Overview

The Monument of the Great October Revolution was dismantled in September 1991, shortly after Ukraine's Declaration of Independence (24 August 1991). The signs say: "In accordance with the decision of the City Executive Committee, preparatory work is underway for the dismantling of the monument," and: "We apologise for any temporary inconvenience caused."

In 1991, Ukraine had 5,500 Lenin monuments.^[2] More than 700 Lenin monuments were removed and/or destroyed between February 2014 and December 2015.^[2] In November 2015, approximately 1,300 Lenin monuments were still standing.^[2]

According to a December 2024 report by Radio Svoboda, the demolition of Lenin monuments in Ukraine had so far happened in three stages:^[3]

During the 1990s, more than 2,000 Lenin monuments were demolished in western Ukraine, mostly in Volhynia and Galicia west of the river Zbruch;
in 2005–2008, more than 600 were demolished mainly in central oblasts, and some western oblasts; and
in 2013–2014, during Euromaidan and the Revolution of Dignity, 552 monuments were demolished.^[3]

1990s

The first wave of demolitions of Lenin monuments happened in Western Ukraine in 1990–1991. On 1 August 1990 in Chervonohrad (renamed Sheptytskyi in 2024), a Lenin monument was demolished for the first time in the USSR.^[4]^[5] Under popular pressure the monument was dismantled, formally with the purpose of moving elsewhere. That same year, Lenin monuments were dismantled in Ternopil, Kolomyia, Nadvirna, Borislav, Drohobych, Lviv and other cities of Galicia.^[6]

2005–2008

Vandalisation of the Vladimir Lenin monument on Khreshchatyk (30 June 2009).

According to Radio Svoboda, about 600 Lenin monuments were dismantled or removed from 2005 to 2008, primarily in the central oblasts of Ukraine, as well as a few western ones.^[3] Unlike the wild wave of the early 1990s in Western Ukraine that was accompanied by waving national flags and shouting "Glory to Ukraine!", this was usually a rather formal and administrative process.^[3] It was marked by signs such as "taken away for repairs", "fallen apart due to age", "removed due to a state of emergency", and so on.^[3] There was no nationwide discussion on the topic of removing totalitarian symbols and toponymy in this period; the subject was usually limited to agitation in right-wing political circles, as well as representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia who reasoned it was time to get rid of these Lenin monuments.^[3]

When on 30 June 2009, a group of five young nationalist guys including Mykola Kokhanivskyi defaced the Vladimir Lenin monument on Khreshchatyk near the Bessarabska Square in a failed attempt to topple it, this caused widespread outrage; they were arrested and prosecuted, and even condemned by the nationalist organisation they were members of.^[3]^[7] While president Viktor Yushchenko had also previously asked for the statue to be removed, this proposal did not gain enough support at the time.^[7] The vandalised monument was eventually restored, and the decision postponed, marking the end of the second stage of Leninopad.^[3]

Communist monuments toppled during Euromaidan (2013–2014)

Video of the Kyiv Lenin monument being toppled on 8 December 2013^[3]

Lenin Square in Dnipro on 22 February 2014 with the demolished monuments to Vladimir Lenin.

Toppling of the Statue of Lenin in Kharkiv on 28 September 2014

Starting on 8 December 2013,^[3] Euromaidan protesters toppled several statues of Vladimir Lenin in Ukrainian cities.^[8]^[9]^[10] The first Lenin to fall was the Khreshchatyk monument near Bessarabska Square in Kyiv, the same one that was vandalised but restored in 2009.^[3] Some estimates said that more than a hundred statues were toppled.^[11] In December 2015, The Ukrainian Week calculated that 376 Lenin monuments were removed or destroyed in February 2014 alone, when the Revolution of Dignity occurred.^[2] Radio Svoboda stated that between December 2013 and December 2014, "552 monuments to Lenin and several dozen more monuments to other Bolshevik leaders have been dismantled in Ukraine."^[3]

This is a partial list:

Landmark	Location	Date	Status	Notes	Image
Statue of Lenin	Andriievo-Ivanove	3 January 2014	Broken in two	Police launched an investigation based on a Criminal Code article entitled "Destruction of, or Damage to, Monuments of History or Culture".^[12]
Statue of Lenin	Berdychiv	22 February 2014	Toppled and destroyed	^[13]^[14]	Statue of Lenin in Berdychiv in 2013.
Statue of Lenin	Bila Tserkva	2014	Toppled and destroyed	^[8]^[15]	Statue of Lenin in Bila Tserkva in 2009.
Statue of Lenin	Chernihiv	21 February 2014	Toppled	^[16]^[17]	"Lenin has laid down"
Statue of Lenin	Chervona Sloboda	8 July 2014	Toppled	According to the Ukrainian Communist Party "a criminal case has been opened over the act of vandalism".^[18]^[19]
Statue of Lenin	Kharkiv	28 September 2014	Toppled and destroyed		The destruction of the Kharkiv Lenin statue on 28 September 2014
Statue of Lenin	Kherson	7 February 2013	Destroyed	^[20]
Statue of Lenin	Khmelnytskyi	21 February 2014	Toppled	^[8]^[15]^[21]	Toppling of the statue of Lenin in Khmelnitsky, 21 February 2014.
Statue of Lenin	Korosten	5 October 2014	Toppled		Empty plinth
Statue of Lenin	Kyiv	8 December 2013	Toppled and destroyed	^[9]	Toppled Lenin statue being broken into pieces for souvenirs
Statue of Lenin	Melitopol	5 July 2015	Dismantled by the City Council		An empty pedestal of a Lenin statue
Statue of Lenin	Novomoskovsk	2 August 2015	Toppled	^[22]
Statue of Lenin	"Pressmash" Factory, Odesa	23 October 2015	Transformed into a statue of Darth Vader	^[23]
Statue of Lenin	Podilsk	8 December 2013	Broken into several pieces	^[12]
Statue of Lenin	Pryluky		Dismantled
Bust of Lenin	Sievierodonetsk	1 October 2014	Set on fire and dismantled	^[24]
Statue of Lenin	Stanytsia Luhanska	16 April 2015	Toppled
Statue of Lenin	Velyki Sorochyntsi		Dismantled
Statue of Lenin	Zaporizhzhia	17 March 2016	Dismantled	^[25]
Statue of Lenin	Zhytomyr	21 February 2014	Toppled and destroyed	^[8]^[15]^[26]

Post-Euromaidan

On 9 April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed legislation on decommunization.^[27] On 15 May 2015, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed this bill into law that started a six-month period for the removal of communist monuments (excluding World War II monuments) and the mandatory renaming of settlements with names related to Communism.^[28] On 16 January 2017, the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance announced that 1,320 Lenin monuments were dismantled during decommunization.^[29]

A website "Raining Lenins"^[30] tracks the statistics of the fall of Lenin statues in Ukraine.^[6]

On 17 March 2016, the largest Lenin monument at the unoccupied territory of Ukraine, 19.8 meters high, was dismantled in Zaporizhzhia.^[31] In between the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Russian Federation and 28 September 2014, the largest Lenin monument at the unoccupied territory was standing in Kharkiv (20.2 m high).^[32]^[33] This statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was toppled and destroyed on 28 September 2014.^[34]

In February 2019, The Guardian reported that the two Lenin statues in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone were the only two remaining statues of Lenin in Ukraine, if not taking into account occupied territories of Ukraine.^[35] In January 2021 "Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty" located three more remaining Lenin statues in three (Ukrainian controlled) small villages. This increased the number of remaining Lenin statues to five.^[36]

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of these statues of Lenin, which had been taken down by Ukrainian activists, were re-erected by Russian occupiers in Russian-controlled areas.^[37]^[38]^[39]^[40]

Map

Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine is located in Ukraine

Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine

Kyiv

Demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine

Map showing the removal, destruction and damage to monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine from 8 December 2013 to present

— Kyiv, in which the monuments were dismantled or demolished during the relevant period

— Oblast capitals, in which monuments were dismantled or demolished during the relevant period

— City, in which the monuments were dismantled or demolished during the relevant period

— Rural settlements, villages, Urban-type settlements, in which the monuments were dismantled or demolished during the relevant period

Motivation

The start of the "Leninopad" in its mass was laid by the demolition of the Lenin monument in Kyiv on the Bessarabian Square. The event took place on 8 December 2013 at around 6:00 pm. Even more people began to massively destroy monuments of the Soviet past after reports about the Euromaidan activists who died during the protests in Kyiv.

In January 2015, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine announced that it would encourage all public initiatives related to cleaning Ukraine of monuments to figures of the communist past. According to Minister Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, his department will initiate the removal from the State Register of Immovable Monuments of Ukraine of all monuments related to communist figures listed there. "The state will not oppose, but on the contrary, will in every possible way support all public initiatives that will fight for the cleansing of Ukraine from these relics of the totalitarian past," the minister emphasized.^[41]

In April 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted in favor of the draft law "On the condemnation of the communist and national socialist (Nazi) totalitarian regimes in Ukraine and the prohibition of propaganda of their symbols", which, in particular, will oblige local authorities to dismantle monuments to communist figures on the territory of Ukraine.^[42]

Reactions

The removal of the monuments evoked mixed feelings among the Ukrainian population.^[43] In some cases, like in Kharkiv in early 2014,^[44] pro-Russian Ukrainian crowds protected the monuments, including members of the communist and socialist parties, as well as veterans of World War II and the Afghan wars.^[45] The statue of Lenin in Kharkiv was toppled on 28 September 2014.^[34] Late October 2014, then Kharkiv Governor Ihor Baluta admitted that he thought that the majority of Kharkiv residents had not wanted the statue removed, but said "there was hardly any protest afterward either, which is quite telling".^[46]

In January 2015, the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine announced that it would encourage any public initiatives related to the cleansing of Ukraine from "relics of the totalitarian past".^[41]

"It is not by chance that the demonstrations that we saw after the annexation of Crimea in the east and southeast of Ukraine were organized in the squares around the monuments to Lenin, with red flags with a hammer and sickle. What is happening now in Ukraine, what was instigated by Russian aggression, is a clash between the new Ukraine and the old Soviet Union, to which the current Russia is trying to return with the help of Ukraine, seizing parts of its territories. It is not clear to me why monuments to Lenin are being demolished only now in various cities of Ukraine; why all these 24 years they continued to stand; why didn't the state administration of an independent country demolish them earlier?

— Yuri Felshtinsky, Russian American historian, February 2015^[47]

Notes

^ Ukrainian: Ленінопад. Russian: Ленинопад. Compare листопад, lystopad, "leaf fall", the Ukrainian word for "November", though some cognates in related Slavic languages use it for "October" instead.

References

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External links

Map and lists of damaged monuments
Raining Lenins Archived 20 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine

[1] Ukrainian: Ленінопад. Russian: Ленинопад. Compare листопад, lystopad, "leaf fall", the Ukrainian word for "November", though some cognates in related Slavic languages use it for "October" instead.

[2] Shebelist, Serhii (30 September 2013). ""Leninfall" – The lack of adequate commemoration policy in Ukraine provokes the new tide of the "war of monuments"". day.kyiv.ua. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2016.

[LS_Out_of_Sight_D-3] Olga Kovalevska (28 December 2015). "Out of Sight". The Ukrainian Week. Archived from the original on 29 January 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2026.

[Podobed-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Podobed, Pavlo (January 2015). Від ленінізму до ленінопаду [From Leninism to Leninopad]. Radio Svoboda (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 2 September 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2017.

[5] "Перший Ленін впав 1990 року: як скидали ідола комунізму" [The first Lenin fell in 1990: how the idol of communism was dropped]. Gazeta.ua (in Ukrainian). 8 December 2018. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021.

[Fakty_ICTV-6] "Ленінопад: як ВАЛИЛИ пам'ятники радянським діячам на ВСІЙ території Україні" [Leninopad: how statues of Soviet figures were toppled across the whole of Ukraine]. Fakty ICTV (in Ukrainian). 9 August 2023. Retrieved 16 May 2026.

[flf-7] Volodymyr Semkiv. ""Падай, Леніне, падай"" ["Fall, Lenin, Fall"]. Archived from the original on 9 August 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2017.

[t638-8] Harding, Luke (1 July 2009). "Vandals arrested after attack on statue of Lenin in Kiev". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2026.

[bbc-2014-02-22-9] "Ukraine crisis: Lenin statues toppled in protest". BBC. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 21 April 2015.

[huffington-2014-02-24-10] "Leninopad, Ukraine's Falling Lenin Statues, Celebrated As Soviet Symbols Toppled Nationwide (VIDEOS, PHOTOS)". Huffington Post. 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2015.

[radiosvoboda-2014-01-09-11] Софія Середа (9 January 2014). "В Україні – Ленінопад: пам'ятники вождю падають один за одним". Radiosvoboda.org. Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

[12] Pyzik, Agata (29 September 2014). "Why Soviet monuments should be protected". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 October 2025.

[kyivpost-2014-01-04-13] "Police: One more Lenin statue broken in Odesa region". Kyiv Post. 4 January 2014. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

[14] Ukraine crisis – Another monument of Lenin toppled in the city of Berdichev on YouTube

[15] "Lenin Monumenet in Berdichev (Zhytomyr Oblast) – 22/02/2014". Raining Lenins. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

[ap-video-2014-02-22-16] Raw: Lenin Statues Toppled Across Ukraine on YouTube

[pravda-2014-02-22-17] ""Leninopad" continues – monuments dismantled in Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava and Chernihiv". Ukrayinska Pravda. 22 February 2014. Archived from the original on 13 March 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

[18] The monument of Lenin in Chernigov has fallen on YouTube

[19] "Another Lenin monument removed near Ukraine's Sumy". Interfax Ukraine. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

[20] "Lenin Monument in Chervona Sloboda (Sumi Oblast) – 08/07/2014". Raining Lenins. 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 April 2015.

[21] "В Херсоне ночью был разрушен памятник Ленину". bigmir.net (in Russian). 11 February 2013.

[22] Statue toppled in 21 February 2014 on YouTube

[23] "Айдар нашел и свалил Ленина в Новомосковске". YouTube. 2 August 2015.

[24] "Ukraine: Lenin statue given Darth Vader makeover". BBC. 23 October 2015.

[25] Glukhov, Denis (1 October 2014). "В Северодонецке после поджога демонтировали Ленина". kp.ua (in Russian).

[26] "У Запоріжжі остаточно демонтували найбільший в Україні пам'ятник Лєніну". Тиждень (in Ukrainian). Archived from the original on 20 March 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2016.

[27] Statue toppled in 21 February 2014 on YouTube

[28] Hyde, Lily (20 April 2015). "Ukraine to rewrite Soviet history with controversial 'decommunisation' laws". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 16 May 2015. Retrieved 17 May 2015.

[decommupbbcU-29] "Порошенко підписав закони про декомунізацію" [Poroshenko signed the laws about decomunization]. Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 15 May 2015. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016.
"Poroshenko signs laws on denouncing Communist, Nazi regimes". Interfax-Ukraine. 15 May 2015. Archived from the original on 2 August 2018.
"Poroshenko: Time for Ukraine to resolutely get rid of Communist symbols". UNIAN. 17 May 2015. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015.
"Goodbye, Lenin: Ukraine moves to ban communist symbols". BBC News. 14 April 2015. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016.

[30] "Декомунізували 1320 пам'ятників Леніну, Бандері поставили 4" [1,320 monuments to Lenin were decommunised, 4 to Bandera were erected]. Ukrayinska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 16 January 2017. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017.
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[31] ""Raining Lenins"". Archived from the original on 20 August 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.

[32] "В ЗАПОРІЖЖІ НАРЕШТІ ЗНЕСЛИ НАЙБІЛЬШОГО ЛЕНІНА. Фото". Історична правда. Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2020.

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