Lenin\’s Mausoleum is opened for tours after six months of repair

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Lenin\’s Mausoleum will be open for visitors after renovation, during which the foundation has been updated and restored historic lighting, reported RIA «Novosti» official representative of the Federal Security Service Sergei ninth.

The tomb was closed in autumn 2012. «Restoration and reconstruction work in the mausoleum under the plan completed by the end of April. However, due to the fact that the Red Square parade was held, and the mausoleum did not have access, it will open to visitors on May 15 «- said the ninth.

He said, «all the work was carried out of the mausoleum.» «There was a fortified base — on the perimeter of a monolithic plate was covered with more than 350 piles,» — said the ninth.

The need of work, he explained, was caused by the fact that «the foundation slab was slightly moving.» «Were geophysical studies that have shown that the platform is unstable. Thank God, no damage mausoleum has not received «, — said the ninth.