2- Lenin's mausoleum

2- Lenin's mausoleum or Lenin's Tomb


Lenin's Tomb, situated in Red Square in the center of Moscow, is the mausoleum that serves as the current resting place of Vladimir Lenin.
Vladimir Llyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist. His embalmed body has been on public display there since shortly after his death in 1924,(with rare exceptions in wartime).

                                                        Vladimir Lenin inside his mausoleum
                                   

                                                                   Lenin's mausoleum

Aleksey Shchusev's diminutive but monumental granite structure incorporates some elements from ancient mausoleums, such as the Step Pyramid and the Tomb of Cyrus the Great.

Address- Red Square, Moskva, Russia,  101000

Opened- October 1930

Visiting hours- Monday-        Closed
                       Tuesday-        10:00 am to 1 pm
                       Wednesday-   10:00 am to 1 pm
                       Thursday-       10:00 am to 1 pm
                       Friday-            Closed
                       Saturday-        10:00 am to 1 pm
                       Sunday-           Closed

Architectural style- Egyptian revival architecture

Phone- +7 495 623-55-27

Function- Mausoleum

Burials- Vladimir Lenin, Joseph stalin, llya Zbarsky, Anna llichina Ulianova, Alexie Ivanovich Abrikosov

Architects- Alexey Shchusev, I.A. Frantsuz, G.K. Yakovlev.