Vladimir Lenin body preservation Russia spend $200,000 over 90 years. The embalmed body of Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin.
The Russian Federal Protection Service (FSO) is planning to spend more than 13 million rubles (some $200,000).
The preservation of the embalmed body of Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin, on display.
In the Mausoleum on Red Square for over 90 years, a FSO spokesman said.
Vladimir Lenin body preservation Russia spend $200,000 over 90 years.
A laboratory of medical and biological structures of the All-Russia Research Institute of Medicinal Plants founded in 1924.
Shortly after his death is responsible for maintaining Lenin’s corpse.
Its employees worked to preserve the body in 1941.
When it evacuated to the Siberian city of Tyumen amid fears that Moscow could captured German troops.
The Moscow laboratory also helped to embalm the bodies of Bulgaria’s Georgi Dimitrov in 1949.
Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh in 1969, North Korea’s Kim Il-sung in 1994 and other Communist leaders.
To maintain the precise condition of Lenin’s body, the staff must perform regular maintenance on the corpse.
And sometimes even replace parts with an excruciating attention to detail.
Artificial eyelashes have taken the place of Lenin’s original eyelashes, which were damaged during the initial embalming procedures.
The lab had to deal with mold and wrinkles on certain parts of Lenin’s body, especially in the early years.
Researchers developed artificial skin patches when a piece of skin on Lenin’s foot went missing in 1945.
They resculpted Lenin’s nose, face and other parts of the body to restore them to their original feel and appearance.
A moldable material made of paraffin, glycerin and carotene has replaced much of the skin fat to maintain the original “landscape” of the skin.
Vladimir Lenin body preservation Russia spend $200,000 over 90 years.
Russian state-run polls show the majority of Russians believe Lenin’s body should be removed from display and buried.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Lenin should stay put.
And likened the Soviet leader’s mausoleum to displays of relics of Orthodox saints in monasteries.
