In the capital of the Buryat Autonomous Republic — Ulan-Ude — stands a very unusual monument to the Leader of the World Proletariat. It was established here in the year of the centenary of V. И. Lenin in 1970. Since then, among the locals it is considered one of the main attractions of the city, along with Buddhist and Orthodox architectural structures. Installation of monuments is a business for professionals.
The creators of the monument chose the original way: instead of a full-fledged human figure they sculpted just one huge (several meters) head. In fact, numerous monuments to Lenin in cities and towns in Russia usually follow the same sculptural standard, which can be conventionally described as the type of man with an outstretched arm. It is possible that the sculptors really guessed the main idea of the character they embodied, because Lenin, who had a physically undeveloped and slouching figure, stood out above all for his remarkable and astonishingly efficient intellect. The task of the monument is to show in a hyperbolized form the power and might of this intelligence.
Who has read the fantasy novel A. Belyaev’s «Professor Dowell’s Head», he can not help but have the appropriate associations. A truly fantastic monument