Monument to V. I. Lenin in Poshekhonye

In the very center of Poshekhonye, on the central Freedom Square, there is a monument to V.I. Lenin.

The figure of the Bolshevik leader, made in full-length pink granite, is quite traditional for such monuments of the Soviet era. Nevertheless, this monument is unusual for at least two reasons. Firstly, it is one of the most recent monuments to Lenin erected in the Soviet Union. It was erected in 1986, and the famous Yaroslavna Valentina Tereshkova, who had visited Poshekhonye the year before, helped the town to get it. Secondly, in an unusual way, Vladimir Ilyich himself is connected with Poshekhonye. The fact is that he received his world-famous pseudonym from the Poshekhonsky landowner N.E. Lenin, whose passport was given to the future leader of the revolution by the landowner's daughter Olga in 1901. Vladimir Ulyanov needed a passport to illegally leave the Russian Empire. And soon after the beginning of emigration, V.I. Ulyanov began to use the surname "Lenin" as his main pseudonym. That's how the 4-meter Lenin monument in Poshekhonye surprisingly covers almost the entire history of the twentieth century – from the departure of the revolutionary Ulyanov abroad to the last days of the USSR.