removal of the country's communist monuments. By December 2015 Lenin monuments 1,300 were still standing (in Ukraine). In April 2015, a formal decommunization process started in Ukraine after laws were approved which, among other acts, outlawed communist symbols. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, many of these statues of Lenin, which had been taken down by Ukrainian activists, were re-erected by Russian occupiers in Russian-controlled areas. Almazna (occupied by pro-Russian separatists) Alupka (disputed Crimea) Andriyevo-Ivanove – broken in half on January 4, 2014 Amvrosiivka (occupied by pro-Russian separatists) Antratsyt (occupied by pro-Russian separatists) Armiansk (disputed Crimea) Bakhchysarai (disputed Crimea) Baranivka Barvinkove Berdychiv Bila Tserkva Bilopillia Bilohirsk (disputed Crimea) Bilokurakyne – fell on 10 October 2014 Bilozerka – removed on 8 July 2014 Bilytske Bohodukhiv – toppled on 10 October 2014 Boryslav – removed in 1990 Brianka (occupied by pro-Russian separatists) Brovary Chasiv Yar Cherkasy – mounted from 1969 to 2008, designed by K.O. Kuznetsov, architect — V.G. Gniezdilo Chernobyl main street Chernihiv – toppled by protesters on February 21, 2014. Chernivtsi – mounted from 1951 to 1992, designed by М.K. Vronsky, O.P. Oliynyk, architect — М. Ashkinazi Chervona Svoboda – removed on 8 July 2014 Chervonopartyzansk (occupied by pro-Russian separatists) Chuhuiv Derazhnia Derhachi – toppled on 29 September 2014 Dnipropetrovsk – toppled by protesters on February 21, 2014. Dnipropetrovsk, 2 Lenin monuments were removed by the city in 2014; in March 2014 the city's Lenin Square was renamed "Heroes of Independence Square" in honor of the people killed during Euromaidan. The statue of Lenin on the square was removed. In June 2014 another Lenin monument was removed (parts of the monument were moved to a local history museum) and replaced by a monument for the Ukrainian military fighting against armed insurgents in the Donbas (region of Ukraine) In May 2016 Dnipropetrovsk was itself officially renamed to Dnipro to comply with decommunization laws. Dokuchaievsk (occupied by pro-Russian separatists) Donetsk (occupied by pro Russian separatists) – in the Lenin Square Dunaivtsi Dzhankoy (disputed Crimea) Enerhodar Fastiv Feodosiya (disputed Crimea) Hirnyk Hirske Inkerman (disputed Crimea) Ivano-Frankivsk – mounted from 1975 to 1990, designed by H.N. Kalchenko, А.Е. Belostotsky, О.A. Suprun. Izmail Kamianka-Dniprovska – destroyed on 16 April 2014 Kyiv, located in front of Besarabsky Market, erected in the 1950s. (Toppled and dismantled by Ukrainian protesters on December 8, 2013) Kharkiv: At the Freedom Square, erected in 1964. Toppled by protesters on September