Monument to Babushkin IV, Dnepropetrovsk

The monument to Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin can be found along the Shchepkin Street in the depths of the green courtyards of the private sector. It was installed in January 1953 to the jubilee birth date of an outstanding revolutionary. The monument is made in the traditional manner of the Soviet era: a serious look of a brooding face, strict features and a motionless body, an eternally hurried and busy man. Similar busts in all Soviet cities numbered hundreds of thousands, made on the same model.

History of Babushkin in Dnepropetrovsk

Ivan Vasilyevich Babushkin was born in a remote Russian outback and at a young age decided on his life position. As a teenager, he finds himself in a revolutionary circle under the leadership of Lenin. And there he becomes his first successor, companion and successor. Wherever Babushkin was during his lifetime, he everywhere glorified Leninismand created public organizations with similar ideas. For such an active position in 1897, 24-year-old Ivan is sent into exile in the then Ekaterinoslav. The city was considered southern in the empire and safe from the point of view of revolutionary intentions. The situation changed Babushkin's appearance in the city. He immediately organized like-minded people, united groups of young Communists and for years illegally increased the forces of the revolution. Three years later he was declassified and sent to Chita, where he was shot without trial, when he was caught at one of the city's stations with a large number of weapons for a future coup d'état.

In modern Dnepropetrovsk, there is a whole district named after him, a street and a monument. Babushkin made an invaluable contribution to the history of the early 20th century, being true to his ideas about the freedom and equality of all Soviet citizens.

Interesting places nearby

Not far from the monument is the "Molodezhny" park, it was created in honor of Lenin in the 1950s. Today it has been significantly rebuilt and modernized. In the park you can take a walk, refresh yourself near the fountain, play football in a special arena or visit the whole family in the newest ice palace nearby.