Monument Lenin (Ashgabat)

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Monument to V.I. Lenin - sculptor E.R. Tripolskaya, architect A.A. Karelin, ceramist N.I. Nazarov, bronze, majolica, 1927.

The only monument to Lenin preserved in the capitals of the post-Soviet Central Asian republics.

There is no other such monument (in the sense of a unique national style). In the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic there were many memorials to the “leader of the world proletariat,” however, this is the only copy that was not dismantled after the split of the USSR. The mayors left it as a "historical value" in the very center of Ashgabat, noting for themselves the inherent local flavor. You can’t argue with that. The base and pedestal, erected some time after the death of Lenin, in 1927 were lined with bright colored glaze - majolica, skillfully reproducing the patterns of Turkmen carpets.

Thanks to this, the statue of Lenin, most likely, "will live forever." Eight lamps are scattered around, as a symbol of the “unquenchable fire” of Ilyich’s covenants. The pedestal itself unites five parallelepipeds, symbolizing for some reason only five parts of the world. On these pedestals stands the bronze figure of the “Kremlin dreamer,” depicted in the pose of a speaker, pointing with his right hand to the East, whose revolutionary awakening he attached so much importance to.