Ukrainians topple statue of Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov after already tearing down others

Ukrainians toppled a statue of Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, the last monument in Dnipro associated with the Soviet era.

Utility workers from the Dnipro city council were seen dismantling the giant statue previously placed in the city center in the 1970s as a monument to the Russian scientist.

As the war continues, the country has continued its mission to eliminate any remnants of Russian and Soviet culture throughout present-day Ukraine.

Local Ukrainian media reported that this was the last standing monument in the city that had an association with the Soviet era.

Council utility workers in the city of Dnipro were seen dismantling the giant statue of Mikhail Lomonosov, January 6, 2022

Dnipro workers have previously torn down eight other monuments following online voting and decisions by the city’s executive committee.

The other dismantled statues include Alexander Pushkin, a 19th-century playwright and poet, and Maxim Gorky, a writer, socialist academic, and five-time Nobel Prize nominee.

The statues of Andrei Bulygin, Valery Chkalov, Alexander Matrosov, Yefim Pushkin and Volodia Dubinin were also removed.

City council utility workers dressed in orange high-visibility jackets and helmets were seen tearing the statue down from its pedestal in front of a university building in Ukraine’s fourth-largest city.

The statue was unveiled in June 1971, some twenty years before the Soviet Union formally collapsed in 1991. It is made of bronze and appears to be around 12 feet tall.

Some of the workers climbed onto a crane as a crane lowered a large strap to wrap around the monument to the scientist. Others cordoned off the area so that locals would not gather.

When the rope was in place, the crane driver deftly removed the statue from the pedestal before slowly lowering it to the ground and placing it upside down.

Many watched as the city’s last remaining Soviet-era statue was dismantled, while the country’s blue and yellow flag fluttered in the background.

Some of the workers climbed onto a crane as a crane lowered a large strap to wrap around the monument to the scientist. Others cordoned off the area from other locals

Many watched as the city’s last remaining Soviet-era statue was dismantled, while the country’s blue and yellow flag fluttered in the wind in the background.

As the war continues, the country has continued its mission to eliminate any remnants of Russian and Soviet culture throughout present-day Ukraine.

The toppled statue will now be temporarily stored by local officials, Dnipro, Ukraine, January 6, 2020

The toppled statue will now be temporarily stored by local officials.

This follows other Soviet-era statues that have been toppled in Ukraine.

Just a few weeks ago, municipal workers in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa tore down a monument to Russian Empress Catherine the Great.

After a public online vote to get rid of the Catherine II monument approved the decision, workers removed it from the city.

The statue of Catherine the Great was erected in 1900 in Odessa to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the city.

Council workers in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa tear down a monument to Catherine the Great after a public vote to get rid of it, December 28, 2022.

Workers remove the monument to Catherine II, also known as the ‘Monument to the Founders of Odessa’, Ukraine, in the early morning of December 29, 2022