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The second non-temporary wooden version (1924–1930) of Lenin's Mausoleum The completed mausoleum on a 1934 stamp. Two days after Vladimir Lenin's death on 21 January 1924, architect Alexey Shchusev was tasked with building a structure suitable for viewing of the body by mourners.
On 23 January, the coffin with Lenin's body was transported by train from Gorki to Moscow and displayed at the Hall of Columns in the House of the Unions, and it stayed there for three days. [3] [4] On 27 January, the body of Lenin was delivered to Red Square, accompanied by martial music.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov [b] (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, [c] was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist who was the founder and first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death.
Lenin's preserved body inside Lenin's Mausoleum. Following the death of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin on 21 January 1924, he was embalmed by Aleksey Abrikosov. On 24 January 1924, his body was displayed in the Kremlin's Hall of Columns. His internal organs were removed during the autopsy, [5] and his brain was dissected.
This article is a list of current and former known monuments of Vladimir Lenin.Many of the monuments in former Soviet republics and people's republics were removed after the fall of the Soviet Union, while some of these countries, mainly Russia and Belarus, retained the thousands of Lenin statues that were erected during the Soviet period.
Vladimir Lenin died of a stroke on 21 January 1924. While his body lay in state in the Pillar Hall of the House of the Unions , the Politburo discussed ways to preserve it, initially for forty days, despite objections from his widow and siblings.
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On 1 August 1990, in Chervonohrad a Lenin monument was demolished for the first time in the USSR. [3] Under popular pressure the monument was dismantled, formally with the purpose of moving elsewhere. That same year, Lenin monuments were dismantled in Ternopil, Kolomyia, Nadvirna, Borislav, Drohobych, Lviv and other cities of Galicia. [4]