Kremlin & Kitay Gorod - Moscow - page 142

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Lenin's Mausoleum
Spassky Tower
Resurrection Gate
Kazan Cathedral
PRACTICALITIES
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Ploshchad Revolyutsii
Lenin's Mausoleum
Although Vladimir Ilych requested that he be buried beside his mum in St Petersburg, he
still lies in state at the foot of the Kremlin wall, receiving visitors who come to pay their re-
spects to the founder of the Soviet Union. Line up at the western corner of the square (near
the entrance to Alexander Garden) to see the embalmed leader ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ;
www.lenin.ru ; 10am-1pm Tue-Thu, Sat; Ploshchad Revolyutsii) , who has been here since 1924.
Photography is not allowed, and stern guards ensure visitors remain respectful and silent.
After trouping past the embalmed figure, emerge from the mausoleum and inspect the
Kremlin wall, where other communist heavy hitters are buried, including the following:
Josef Stalin The second general secretary, successor to Lenin.
Leonid Brezhnev The fourth general secretary, successor to Khrushchev.
Felix Dzerzhinsky The founder of the Cheka (forerunner of the KGB).
Yakov Sverdlov A key organiser of the revolution and the first official head of the Soviet
state.
Andrei Zhdanov Stalin's cultural chief and the second most powerful person in the
USSR immediately after WWII.
Mikhail Frunze The Red Army leader who secured Central Asia for the Soviet Union in
the 1920s.