Lenin’s Mausoleum, Red Square, Moskva, Russia

Lenin’s Mausoleum, Red Square, Moskva, Russia 

The Lenin Mausoleum on the Red Square in Moscow the tomb of VI Lenin, one of the tops of Soviet architecture. The first (temporary wooden) version of the Mausoleum was opened on January 27, 1924 near the Kremlin’s Senate Tower on Red Square. The First Mausoleum was a truncated pyramid, to which the L-shaped annexes with stairs adjoined on both sides. Visitors descended the right ladder, bypassed the sarcophagus on three sides and left the left staircase.

Two months later the temporary Mausoleum was closed and the construction of a new wooden mausoleum began, which lasted from March to August 1924. The new Mausoleum was a large (height 9, length 18 meters) truncated pyramid, the stairs were now included in the total volume of the building. For durability, the wooden parts were covered with oil varnish, as a result of which the structure had a strict light brown color. Thrust, The doors and columns of the upper portico were made of black oak.

The wooden cladding was strengthened with forged nails with large figured hats. Five years later, the construction of the final, stone version of the Mausoleum began (July 1929 – October 1930). Stone Mausoleum in terms of almost repeats the wooden. The visitor enters through the main entrance and descends the left staircase of three-meter width (the walls are lined with labradorite) to the funeral hall.

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