Around Zagorodny Prospekt and Troitsky Prospekt

Georgi Plekhanov Monument

Georgi Plekhanov was a famous Russian revolutionary who is credited with being a founder of the social-democratic movement in Russia. Despite being critical of Lenin he was nevertheless popular among the Bolsheviks and this statue of him was erected in 1925 on the square outside St Petersburg's Technical Institute. It depicts Plekhanov giving a passionate speech with a worker standing below him flying a banner.


Location Tekhnichesky Ploschad
Metro Tekhnolohichesky Institut