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Participants of the relay of the House of Communist Enlightenment (Pedagogical Institute) on May 2, 1936 on Lenin Square. Reverse side of the photo. Both monuments of Lenin have not been preserved. In Gomel was replaced by another in the park in front of the war itself, which, as well as in Koktebel, was destroyed during the occupation. In Gomel, a new monument Lenin was installed in the same place in 1958. In this photo, the Petropavlovsky Cathedral, who remained without a cross and the original bell tower, was visible, and turned into an anti-Religious museum at this time with the inscription on the remains of the bell tower "Fouco Pendulum" (this photo taken From the album on a trip to Gomel in 1937 by the American photographer Alexander Artway).