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  2. Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia

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    In 2018, Russian MP Vladimir Petrov suggested that Lenin's body be buried in 2024, the 100th anniversary of his death, because it was costing the state too much money to house the body in the mausoleum and proposed it be replaced with a wax or rubber model.

  3. Lenin's Mausoleum - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Communist mummies - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. A century after Lenin's death, the USSR's founder seems ... - AOL

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    Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A ...

  6. Vladimir Lenin - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Kremlin Wall Necropolis - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. A tragedy transformed: 40 years after fencing accident ... - AOL

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    In 1982, German Matthias Behr killed Ukranian Vladimir Smirnov in a tragic fencing accident. Now, Behr and Smirnov's former wife are united by war.

  9. Funeral train - Wikipedia

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    Russia: In 1894, the body of Tsar Alexander III, was transported by train from Livadia Palace in the Crimea, back to St. Petersburg, by way of Moscow. On 23 January 1924, the body of Vladimir Lenin was carried by funeral train to Moscow Paveletskaya railway station. Later Museum of Lenin Funeral train was established in the rail terminal ...