The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital — was unveiled in 1981 and designed to assert Soviet invincibility.

KYIV, Ukraine — The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer and sickle symbol Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era ...

A gigantic statue of a woman warrior representing Ukraine towered once again over the capital Kyiv Friday but with its Soviet hammer and sickle emblem. The gigantic statue was built in 1981 ...

Ukraine's trident coat of arms glimmered on the shield of a gigantic statue overlooking Kyiv on Sunday, after construction workers winched it up to ...

Watch: Ukraine Replaces Soviet Emblem on Huge Kyiv Statue Workers began to install the Ukrainian coat of arms on the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, one of Europe’s tallest statues, on Saturday.

A Soviet hammer and sickle emblem was removed from Ukraine’s 62m-tall Motherland monument in Kyiv. PHOTO: AFP The exhibition also featured Ukrainian national heroes such as poet Taras Shevchenko ...

The Ukrainian capital has completed dismantling the Soviet emblem from the Motherland monument towering in the center of the city. The Ukrainian Culture Ministry plans to have the Ukrainian ...

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The documentation process to dismantle the Soviet hammer and sickle on the statue in Kyiv is already underway, Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said on national television on May 6.

After removal, the emblem will be stored by the Tallinn City Museum. The Russian Cultural Center was built in 1954 and was designated as an architectural monument in 1997 by the Ministry of Culture.

A man walks next to a Soviet hammer and sickle emblem that was removed from the 62m Motherland Monument this summer and is now exhibited at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the ...

A 2.5-tonne concrete Soviet emblem has been removed from the roof of the Russian Cultural Center in Tallinn, the latest prominent symbol of the USSR's occupation of Estonia to be removed from public ...