Olav Orheim's photo at the top of this page (reproduced above left) (1) shows Lenin looking west (assuming that the Russian site plans are correct--after all, they drove here). But all of the other photos on this page, including the one above right (also by Orheim in 1965) (2) 10 shows him facing north. The generally accepted story is that the Russians oriented the bust to face Moscow (which is on longitude 37º37'E, almost directly north of the POI). But the traverse members reportedly rotated the bust to face Washington DC. The rotated bust in the above left photo is facing west (270º)...actually Washington DC is at about 39ºN-77ºW, and the bearing from the POI to Washington is 233º, or more to the southwest.

The Russians would return for the last time (so far as I am aware) in 1966-67 (the 12th Soviet Antarctic Expedition) as part of an extended traverse from Molodezhnaya Station to the POI, to Plateau Station, to Junction Point (?), and on to Novolazarevskaya Station. The traverse included extensive geodetic, seismic, and magnetic observations. They reached the POI on 23 February. They were on station for less than 2 days, departing on the 25th, but during this visit the station was mapped (at right (2); here is a larger version with index). They were at Plateau for less than 24 hours on 3-4 March, and arrived at Novo on 26 March.

The next documented visit to the POI did not occur until 19 January 2007, when the multinational private expedition Team N2i (Rory Sweet, Rupert Longsdon, Henry Cookson and Paul Landry) arrived at the POI on 19 January 2007, during their manhauling/kite skiing trip from Novo. They originally planned to continue on, if possible, to Vostok, Progress, and Molodezhnaya, but they were picked up at the POI and flown out to Progress, Vostok, and eventually Cape Town. At left (2) is their view looking west at the POI and a couple of the original towers. There's also some freshly dug snow, they started trying to dig into the hut bud did not get deep enough (photo by Henry Cookson). Here's their web site home page (archive) with a hero shot in front of Lenin.

The next visitors were the team members of the Norwegian-U.S. Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica--a two-year venture from Troll to Pole in 2007-08 (or close...mechanical problems kept them from reaching Pole by land that summer) and a return to Troll on a more westerly route the following season. I met some of the traverse team at Pole at the end of my 2008 winter. Anyway...after reaching the POI on the morning of 1 January, they celebrated New Year's Day 2008 as seen in the hero shot at right (10). Note that the ground wire (?) seen on the left side of the pedestal/chimney is clearly visible in some of the other photos on this page, including the 1958 photo showing the hut before it got buried.

References:

(1) Olav Orheim photo from November or December 1965, available from this 3 December 2011 blog post from the Norwegian Polar Institute. Olav was a member of the 1965-66 second leg of the South Pole-Queen Maud Land Traverse which originated at the POI; this blog was documentation of a Norwegian ski traverse retracing Amundsen's route from the Bay of Whales to Pole, part of the Amundsen centennial commemoration.

(2) Images from this historical page prepared by Tom Neumann as part of the Norwegian-American Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica website. The traverse was a 2-season project (2007-08 and 2008-09) from the Norwegian Troll station near the coast, to Pole, with a return the following year. Tom collected this information while at Troll in November 2007; I was in touch with him at that time and provided him some of the background information he used. The 1958 image of a tractor pulling the hut, and the 1967 site plan with translation, are from a book (in Russian) by N. Gvozdetsky; they were provided to Tom by Henry Cookson of Team N2i.

(3)This image is attributed to Scientific Stations in Antarctica, 1882-1963 (item 4 below) but it does not appear in my English translation copy. My source for it is this thread on the polarpost.ru message board (in Russian); the image was posted by Alexander Andreev in 2008.

(4) Images from Scientific Stations in Antarctica, 1882-1963 by L. I. Dubrovin and V. N. Petrov, 1967. NSF contracted an English translation of the original Russian work which was published in 1971. It was formerly available from the NSIDC...I have it here.

(5) From "The South Pole-Queen Maud Land Traverse II, 1965-1966" by Edgar Picciotto, Antarctic Journal, July-August 1966 (article link).

(6) "To the Interior of the Ice Sheet, QMLT 1964-65," a presentation by Dick Cameron about the Queen Maud Land Traverse, in Antarctic Exploration Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration: The Role and Utility of Long Range, Long Duration Traverses, a NASA Conference Publication for the Antarctic Exploration Parallels for Future Human Planetary Exploration Workshop, Houston, Texas, 4-5 August 2009. Published in 2012 (abstract and link).

(7) Glaciology of the Queen Maud Land Traverse, 1964-1965; South Pole-Pole of Relative Inaccessibility by R. L. Cameron et al, Institute of Polar Studies, The Ohio State University, April, 1968 (abstract and link).

(8) This photo is attributed to Olav Orheim and is publicly available on this io9.com page documenting abandoned Antarctic stations.

(9) This photo appears along with the previous one by Olav Orheim in this 8 April 2013 Mail Online (London) photo essay on abandoned Antarctic stations.

Henry Cookson's photo of the POI in 2007 (Wikipedia).

(10) This photo appears with the 1 January 2008 news article by the Norwegian-US Scientific Traverse noting their arrival at the POI.

(11) Soviet Geographical Explorations and Discoveries by N. A. Gvozdetsky. English translation by Anatoly Bratov, 1974. The section of the book which describes the Third SAE and the setup of the POI station can be found here.

(12) Geomagnetic Report - South Pole-Queen Maud Land Traverse I, 1964-65 by Norman Peddie, U.S. Department of Commerce, Coast and Geodetic Survey (available here).