🌅 Site of the Stalin Monument at the Canal Entrance

Дубна, Большая Волга, левый берег входа в канал им. Москвы

The cape at the entrance to the Moscow Canal where a 25-metre monument to Stalin stood from 1937 to 1962; now there is a plaque and a view of the Volga and Lock No. 1.

Sergey Merkurov's figure of Stalin was 25 metres tall and weighed more than 540 tonnes.
The statue's head was carved from a granite monolith weighing 22 tonnes, and a special crane was designed to install it.
The monument formed a pair with Merkurov's monument to Lenin on the opposite bank of the canal.
In the summer of 1959 lightning struck the statue's shoulder and shifted one of the granite blocks.
The statue was destroyed during de-Stalinisation; a reduced copy stands in Moscow's Muzeon park.
In 2018 a plaque appeared here: “Here stood the monument to I. V. Stalin from 1937 to 1962”.
The monuments to Stalin and Lenin at the canal entrance can be seen in the film “Volga, Volga”.

Part of these routes

Dubna: Lenin by the canal and the Volga