Lenin museum - you are welcome!

The museum was opened in May, 1924, as a branch of the V.I.Lenin Institute. Since 1936 it has been called the Central V.I.Lenin museum. More than 12,500 exhibits are displayed in its three floors and 34 halls. The exhibits include the first publications of his works, photostat copies of his manuscripts, Vladimir Ilich's personal belongings, documentary photographs and presents from the working people. Also on display are several Soviet works of art-paintings. sculptures, graphics, and items of folk art dedicated to V. I.Lenin.

VLADIMIR LENIN

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The entire cause of the Soviet people is tied with the name of Lenin. Under his leadership the Russian working people and peasants took the power into their own hands in 1917 and founded the first socialist state in the world. Under the banner of Lenin, they heroically defended the Soviet power during the years of the Civil War, and the achievements of socialism during the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 1945. Lenin's name and image remain in the hearts of the builders of communist society.

We invite you to the most important of these museums, the Central V. I. Lenin Museum in Moscow. It is located on Revolution Square in the immediate proximity of Red Square, the Kremlin, and those places about which it was once said: "Here every stone knows Lenin." This is because Lenin's intense work on the formation of the socialist state was linked for years with Moscow, Red Square and the Kremlin. He lies in rest in the Mausoleum on Red Square.