Monuments that are perceived differently by the people
Monuments that are perceived differently by the people
Vernacular Monuments
Vorovsky monument - a monument radiculitis.
In one of the houses near the Lubyanka monument to the founder of Soviet diplomacy Vaclav Vorovsky who was shot White Guard at the Lausanne Conference in Switzerland in 1923, which led to the rupture of relations between the Soviet Union and Switzerland, established a year ago at the Genoa Conference, where Vorovskii along with other prominent diplomats Chicherin, Krasin, Litvinov was one of the delegates. The monument, which created a person who knew the deceased, is considered one of the most curious in Moscow. Vorovskii depicted in a rather ridiculous pose, his untidy clothes and neuhozheny. Muscovites this monument was given a lot of nicknames, it is called a monument radiculitis, dancing lame, drunken lame But contemporaries Thieves say that this is looked fellow envoy in the heat of the argument: in the crouch, with splayed fingers of one hand, with a raised head.
A monument to Karl Marx - a monument to Karl Marx, to get out of the refrigerator
In the 60 years in Moscow, a monument to Karl Marx. - Faina, have you seen a monument to Marx? - Someone asked Ranevskaya. - You mean the refrigerator with a beard that placed opposite the Bolshoi Theater? - Clarified Ranevskaya .
Dostoevsky Monument - a monument to the man at the reception at the proctologist
Installed in front of the Russian state library.
Fyodor Mikhailovich sits in a very strange position, for this reason the monument got a nickname such as Monument to Russian hemorrhoids, The reception at the proctologist, Ankylosing spondylitis, Ek twisted!.
Monument Kuibyshev - a monument tadpole
Valerian Kuibyshev was one of those who established the Soviet power in Samara, and in 20-30s headed the Supreme Council of National Economy and the State Planning Commission, ie It is directly responsible for collectivization and industrialization. The monument he installed in 1938 on the square, which is also named after Kuibyshev, the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara). Completed project Manizer sculptor. Dimensions head sculpture slightly exaggerated in comparison with the rest of the structure, which is why the monument was not flattering nickname of citizens - tadpole.
The monument to Pushkin - a monument to Pushkin on a skateboard
November 5, 1999 in Yekaterinburg Literary quarter there was a bronze monument, erected with public funds. The poet is depicted in her nightgown, with bent arms, which symbolizes inspiration surprise.
The people called the monument karateka for an aggressive wave of the hand and Pushkin on a skateboard for the unusual shape of the pedestal.
Prometheus - student suicide
Sculpture Vardges Avagyan called Prometheus - on the facade of the building of the South Ural State University in Chelyabinsk.
Lenin monument - a monument to Lenin wrote
Most kind of informal names of the monument to St. Petersburg - Lenin with a cap and dancing Lenin, due to the unusually expressive postures of the monument. But most locals monument to Lenin on Moscow Square is known as the write. Under certain angle Lenin left hand turns in the genital organ, which is the motion of passers towards the Moscow department store is increasing.
Monument to victims of radiation catastrophes - liver monument
Monument to victims of radiation accidents in the city of Orel in the square of the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident. It is called a monument to the liver.
Glory Memorial - a monument to three, emerged from the forest
Korolev near Moscow on the avenue of victory set the Glory Memorial, called Three out of the woods, as there is a small woods behind it. On plates stamped the names of soldiers who died during World War II.
Eternal Flame - Baba fried crocodile
It's all in a wreath, which from a certain angle looks like a crocodile. Popular name at the monument came from the first days of its installation in Syktyvkar in 1981.
Sholokhov monument - a monument to the slaughterhouse
Monument to Soviet writers, public figures, Nobel Prize winner for literature, Mikhail Sholokhov, set in Moscow on Gogol Boulevard. The sculptor wanted to portray horses, floating on the water, but it turned out that their heads were severed as though, because of what the sculpture called Slaughterhouse. Also in the winter regularly turns into a monument to the Grandfather Maza, when an empty boat enthusiasts molded from snow hares.
Kurchatov Monument (Chelyabinsk) - a monument of the goalkeeper, a monument to Bin Laden
Actually, this monument monument dubbed Bin Laden after the well-known events of 2001, they say behind traces of the explosions at the skyscrapers, and the man to whom the monument, besides that with a beard, so also in long robes. But in general, this monument is called splitting the atom.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism.
Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in a RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Encouraging insurrection during Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he later campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.
Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty with the Central Powers and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations secured independence after 1917, but three re-united with Russia through the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. In increasingly poor health, Lenin died at his dacha in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. He became an ideological figurehead behind Marxism–Leninism and thus a prominent influence over the international communist movement. A controversial and highly divisive individual, Lenin is viewed by supporters as a champion of socialism and the working class, while critics on both the left and right emphasize his role as founder and leader of an authoritarian regime responsible for political repression and mass killings.