Stalin Reloaded: New monument honoring Soviet industrial achievement unveiled in Cherepovets, Russia

A new monument to Joseph Stalin and Soviet metallurgist and academician Ivan Bardin has been unveiled in the Russian industrial city of Cherepovets, marking another visible return of Soviet historical memory to public space.

The bronze composition was inaugurated on 19 July 2026 and is dedicated to the construction of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. 

 

New statue of Stalin to be unveiled in the Russian city of Vologda

Good news are coming from the northwestern Russian region of Vologda where a full-size statue of Soviet leader and architect of the People's Antifascist Victory, Joseph Stalin, is going to be installed. 

According to Georgy Filimonov, the region's Governor,  the decision to commission the monument, which he said was nearly complete, had come about following multiple “requests from the public”, adding that it would be installed at a local museum housed in a building where Stalin lived briefly while in exile in 1911–1912.