Tourist attraction –When Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) died on 21 January 1924, Soviet authorities at the behest of Stalin began embalming his body and building a mausoleum. The red and black ...

For almost a century after his death, Vladimir Lenin's carefully preserved body has lain in a purpose-built mausoleum on Red Square -- a glaring reminder of Russia's communist past. But the father ...

TASS/. A mountaineer from the United States has died during the ascent to Lenin Peak in Kyrgyzstan, the press service of the General Staff of the country’s Armed forces told TASS on Friday.