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One of Russia's oldest cities, with its kremlin.
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Lenin's Mausoleum
The granite tomb under the Kremlin wall, where Lenin's embalmed body has lain on view since 1924.
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- Mornings only, on some days of the week
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 30 minutes
- Address
- Red Square, MoscowDirections
- Getting There
- On Red Square; Okhotny Ryad metro.
Why Go
Visitors file past the glass sarcophagus in silence, without stopping. Behind the tomb, the Kremlin Wall Necropolis holds the graves of Stalin and other Soviet leaders, and the ashes of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin are set into the wall.
Tips
- Bags and cameras aren't allowed inside; leave them at the cloakroom first.
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