diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index cdee6a43ad8..4e0e341ea3b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -106,9 +106,6 @@
 [submodule "contrib/icudata"]
 	path = contrib/icudata
 	url = https://github.com/ClickHouse/icudata
-[submodule "contrib/icu"]
-	path = contrib/icu
-	url = https://github.com/unicode-org/icu
 [submodule "contrib/flatbuffers"]
 	path = contrib/flatbuffers
 	url = https://github.com/ClickHouse/flatbuffers
diff --git a/contrib/icu b/contrib/icu
deleted file mode 160000
index 7750081bda4..00000000000
--- a/contrib/icu
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 7750081bda4b3bc1768ae03849ec70f67ea10625