Abstract: The article is devoted to the development of the image of Lenin in cinemaleniniana of Sergei Yutkevich and Yevgeny Gabrilovich. In his article Shelest analyzes the period since 1937 till 1987, from when the personality cult of Stalin was first created till the moment when it was dispelled and the cult of Lenin was revived for short time. The researcher focuses on the films 'Lenin in Poland' and 'Lenin in Paris'. He also touches upon the history of the creation of film 'Light Over Russia' as an example of the pressure that official ideology had on directors. The aim of this research is to describe the main stages of the development of Lenin's image in cinemalenianana of Yutkevich from the point of view of cultural and historical environment of the Soviet era. As a result of his research, Shelest has defined peculiarity of the structure and composition of films as well as their genre attribution. The researcher also traces back how the historical, mythological and subjective (director's) time correlate and what influence different periods of the Soviet reality had on the image of Lenin. The novelty of the research is caused by the author's attempt to take a loot at Yutkevich's films without ideological blinkers. The research results can be used as the basis for further research of Post-Soviet Leniniana. At the end of the article the author concludes that the artistic image of Lenin was formed at the crossing of two ideological waves, 'from the bottom', i.e. people's mind, as a religious archetype, and 'from above', as a political order. All that resulted in weakening of Lenin's cult in the long run.