Postcard made in the Soviet Union, 1991. The Peoples’ Friendship Arch is a monument in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It was opened together with the All-Union Lenin Museum (today, Ukrainian House) on November 7, 1982 to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the USSR and the celebration of the 1,500th Anniversary of the Kyiv city.
On 20 May 2016 the Ukrainian government announced plans to dismantle the arch as part of its decommunization laws.