The Ulyanovsk communists fear that, if all the monuments come to their region, "no Lenin monument will be left in other regions".
Meanwhile, ideology secretary of the Sverdlovsk KPRF party branch Vladimir Krasnolobov warns, "if the governor decides to give the Lenin monument, the communists will rise".
Head of the missionary section of the diocesan board of Yekaterinburg Vladimir Zaitsev is ironic. He says that next to the Lenin monument on 1905 Year square a cathedral church, exploded in the 1920s, is going to be restored.
"If Lenin remains in its place, he will look like begging for alms on the church porch", he says.
In turn, the administration of Yekaterinburg wants peace to be among all. Mr. Konstantin Pudov, press secretary of the city head, thinks that, if the Ulyanovsk managers want to gather Lenin monuments, they would better turn to the Russian enterprises and factories keeping Lenin monuments since the Soviet times.
In all, about 1,800 Lenin monuments have been erected in the years of Soviet power. The tallest is found in Dubna on the shores of the Moscow-Volga channel. The granite monument designed by sculptor Merkurov is 25 meters tall (together with the pedestal) and weighs about 540 tonnes.
