Kyrgyzstan News » Osh News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Culture: Kyrgyzstan’s Second City Osh Takes Down Lenin Statue
News channel or source: https://thediplomat.com/2025/06/kyrgyzstans-second-city-osh-takes-down-lenin-statue/
Published on: Monday 09 June 2025
Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. Installed in 1975, the 75-foot statue’s removal, 34 years after the collapse ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Culture: Kyrgyzstan removes towering Lenin statue from second city
News channel or source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/kyrgyzstan-removes-towering-lenin-statue-073948719.html
Published on: Saturday 07 June 2025
FILE - Local residents, Kyrgyz and Uzbeks, receive humanitarian aid in front of a statue of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin on a central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Osh » Culture: In Kyrgyzstan’s Osh, Lenin statue goes 34 years after Soviet collapse
News channel or source: https://eurasianet.org/in-kyrgyzstans-osh-lenin-statue-goes-34-years-after-soviet-collapse
Published on: Tuesday 10 June 2025
For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above the central square. Then one morning, he disappeared. Residents of ...