Monument to Vladimir Lenin

Lenin Street runs through the very center of Irkutsk. Before 1858 the street had been called Morskaya and Zamorskaya. In the beginning of the 19th century it became one of the main streets of the city. In 1858, after signing the Aigun treaty with China, which joined the Amur Region to Russia, the City Council renamed Zamorskaya Street to Amurskaya Street. On November 5,1920 the City Council of Workers and Red Army Deputies, at the request of residents renamed the street again and it became Lenin Street. In 1952, on the site of the former Lutheran Church a monument to Vladimir Lenin was erected by sculptor Nicolay Tomsky and architect Lev Golubovsky. The bronze statue was cast at the Mint factory in Leningrad. The original monument first appeared in Voronezh in 1940, and the author’s replicas were then made for Leningrad, Vilnius and Irkutsk. traverse Lenin's street and K. Marksa street