Focus on Statue of Lenin at Finland Station and explore the History.
The statue was unveiled on 7 November 1926.  It originally stood in a small square in front of the station, it was moved to a new position when the square was remodelled after the Second World War and a new, larger Lenin Square was created.  It faces across the square toward the River Neva and the Bolshoy Dom, formerly the headquarters of the KGB in the city and now used by the Federal Security Service.  By 1979 every station in Leningrad (Petrograd had been renamed again five days after Lenin's death) had a statue or bust of Lenin.  After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 the majority of these were torn down; the Finland Station statue is one of the few that remain and is one of the most famous in the country.At 4.30am on 1 April 2009 the statue was attacked by a bomb.  A hole measuring 80–100 centimetres (31–39 in) was blown in the buttocks of the statue.  The attackers were never caught.  The statue was taken away for repair and reinstalled in April 2010.
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