Inside the mausoleum, Lenin's body was placed in a crystal ... It is now considered a monument of urban planning and architecture of federal significance. In the 1970s, the mausoleum was closed ...

In 1990, Lenin’s mausoleum was included in the UNESCO World Heritage list along with Moscow’s Kremlin and Red Square as "the Soviet Union’s prime example of symbolic monumental architecture." ...

Lenin's Mausoleum is located in Red Square and is probably one of the stranger tourist attractions you'll ever come across. It contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, a disturbing site that ...