One of Moscow’s busiest tourist attraction is closing for two months. Maintenance will be performed on the building while conservation procedures are performed on Lenin’s corpse. While a growing number of Russians feel that the time to bury Lenin has arrived, it;s doubtful that it will happen any time soon.

Regular checks are carried out of Lenin’s body and the cost of preserving the body is several million roubles a year. Russian scientists say he could be preserved for another 100 years.

“We have retained our unique methods and know-how,” said Valery Bykov, the director of the Scientific Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Herbs. “The West has only temporary embalmment.”

The body of the Russian communist leader has been on public display in a glass case since his death in 1924, although his organs, including his brain, were removed during the autopsy.

An opinion poll has shown that two-thirds of Russians believe that the embalmed body of the Russian communist leader should be removed from its mausoleum on Red Square and buried. (Moscow News)

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