The dismantled monument to the founder of the Soviet state Vladimir Lenin was put up for auction in the city of Novgorod-Seversky, Chernihiv region of Ukraine, reports TASS.
The offer is posted on the electronic public and public procurement platform. It is valid until January 26. The starting price of the bronze sculpture is almost 394 thousand hryvnias (about 14 thousand dollars).
The monument to Lenin was demolished in October 2016. It is stored at one of the municipal enterprises of the city and is recognized as scrap metal by the decision of the city council.
Recall that in May 2015, the law on decommunization came into force in Ukraine, suggesting the renaming of settlements and streets named after Soviet statesmen, as well as a ban on the use of symbols of the USSR. All registered monuments to Lenin were dismantled, 52 thousand streets and almost a thousand settlements were renamed.
Earlier, the expert told how many monuments to Lenin remained in the former USSR.