Russia plans to spend $200,000 to preserve Lenin's body

The cost of preserving the body of leader Vladimir Lenin in the mausoleum in Moscow this year is estimated at nearly 200,000 USD.

Lenin's body is preserved in a mausoleum in Moscow. Photo: AP

Russia's Federal Protective Service (FSO) is planning to spend more than 13 million rubles ($197,000) to preserve the body of leader Vladimir Lenin, Tass news agency quoted the agency's spokesman as saying yesterday.

The leader of the 1917 Russian October Revolution died in 1924. His body has been preserved and displayed in a mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow for more than 90 years.

A laboratory of pharmaceutical and biological structures, part of the Russian Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, founded in 1924, shortly after Lenin's death, is responsible for preserving his body.

The Moscow institute also helped preserve the bodies of Bulgarian leader Georgi Dimitrov in 1949, President Ho Chi Minh in 1969, and North Korean President Kim Il Sung in 1994.

According to VNE