Postcard made in the Soviet Union, Ukraine, with the monument of the Great October Revolution. Monument of the Great October Revolution was a Soviet monument that was located on the October Revolution Square from 1977–1991 in what is now Independence Square in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital city.
The monument had a form of a granite pylon with a figure of Vladimir Lenin out of red granite (8.9 m (29 ft)). In front of the pylon there were four bronze figures of male and female workers, peasant and sailor, each 5.25 m (17.2 ft) in height. The whole composition was located on a granite stylobate.
The monument was removed on September 12, 1991, by decision of the Kiev City Council.