Monument to Lenin and Krupskaya

The monument to V.I. Lenin and N.K. Krupskaya presents a sculptural composition depicting the young leader and his wife on a bench while reading the Iskra newspaper. Located in Moscow at the intersection of Leninsky Prospect and Krupskaya Street.

The composition belongs to the authorship of O.K. Komov, V.A. Nesterov and V.E. Corsi. This is one of the last monuments to Lenin in the Soviet Union, which appeared in 1989.

The idea of a newspaper called Iskra was hatched by Lenin in Shushenska exile. The first edition was born in 1900 in Germany. Approximately this period can be attributed to the episode reflected in the sculpture. The leader himself is "humanized" here - shown not in the fight, but in ordinary life, and the whole scene looks somewhat romantic.

Interestingly, this monument is only one in the capital, where there is another person next to Lenin. The site is often used for rallies of Communist Party supporters.

You can get here by metro: near the University station and Vernadsky Prospect.