The largest monument to Lenin in Ukraine was put up for sale in Zaporizhzhia: the money from the sale will go to the Armed Forces

Dismantling of the monument to Vladimir Lenin in Zaporizhzhia in 2017. Photo: www.061.ua

Zaporizhzhia City Hall has put up for auction the largest monument to Volodymyr Lenin in Ukraine. The proceeds from the sale will be transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

This was stated by acting mayor of the city, Regina Kharchenko.

The ad on Prozorro states that a bronze sculpture of Vladimir Lenin, bronze sculptures of a steelworker, a collective farm woman, an electrician, a construction engineer, uppercase and lowercase letters are for sale. The weight of the sculpture of Vladimir Lenin is more than 12 tons, and its height is 23 meters.

Screenshot of the lot on Prozorro

The starting price for the monument is 10.4 million hryvnias.

«We are converting the mission of the former «theoretician of Marxism» into resources to help our defenders, who are currently defending us from the followers of the Soviet regime,» Rehina Kharchenko wrote.

It should be noted that the bronze monument to Vladimir Lenin in Zaporizhzhia was dismantled in March 2016. On June 6, 2024, deputies of the Zaporizhzhia City Council adopted a draft decision to sell the monument through an auction.

We will remind you that the Department of Culture of the Mykolaiv City Council is waiting for the decision of the Ministry of Culture regarding the removal of the protective status from the monument to Admiral Makarov at the Upper BAM.

Previously, a monument to the statesman of the Russian Empire, the founder of the city, Grigory Potemkin, was dismantled in the Mykolaiv yacht club.

It was also reported that Mykolaiv authorities plan to dismantle the monument to the communists and install it in a museum.

As you know, on the evening of October 19, 2022, there was an explosion in Mykolaiv, as a result of which the monument to the Soldiers of Law and Order, erected during the Soviet Union, was blown up.

After that, on November 3, the «Sorrowful Mother» obelisk at the mass grave of those who died in the Second World War was blown up in the Inhulskyi district.