The cost of maintaining the body of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in the mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square is estimated at 13 million rubles ($197,000) for 2016, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday.
The cost of maintaining the body of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin in the mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square is estimated at 13 million rubles ($197,000) for 2016, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday.
It was published on the website of Russian government's state procurement. It is seeking tenders for “medical and biological works to maintain Lenin's body.”
Shortly after Vladimir Lenin's death the laboratory of medical and biological structures of the All-Russia Research Institute of Medicinal Plants founded to maintain his corpse.
According to TASS, 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.
