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title: "Lenin Alley"
description: "The Soviet Past of Semipalatinsk"
url: "https://michael-k.uk/lenin-alley"
published: "2024-03-22T16:51:00Z"
updated: "2026-02-02T00:46:16Z"
authors: ["Michael-K"]
---

# Lenin Alley

The Soviet Past of Semipalatinsk

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This collection of old Lenins, rounded up and placed in a park after the fall of the Soviet Union was in Semey. Formally known as Semipalatinsk, Semey is a city in eastern Kazakhstan, in the Kazakh part of Siberia. The statues were mostly removed a few months after we visited in 2023.

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