Red Square in Moscow, Moscow Federal City

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Coordinates: 55.75366, 37.61989
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Red Square is located in the heart of the historical district of Moscow and surrounded by stately government buildings, the State Historical Museum, and St. Basil Cathedral. The final resting place of the first leader of Communist Russia, Vladimir Lenin, is located in Red Square in the Lenin's Mausoleum. The mausoleum, which was designed by Alexei Shchusev in 1924, is of the Russian Avant-Garde style and was not destroyed by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's enforced return to heroic realism and conservative classicism. As a result, the founder of the Soviet state has a resting place that is a rare masterpiece of modern architectural simplicity. Faced with red granite, for Communism, and black labradorite, for mourning, the mausoleum is essentially a pyramid composed of cubes. Upon his death in 1953, Stalin's embalmed body was put to rest beside Lenin's ornate glass sarcophagus until 1961, when Stalin's body was removed in denouncing his tyranny of the Great Purge. After the collapse of the Soviet Union on December 31, 1991, government officials wanted Lenin's corpse to finally be buried and Lenin's Mausoleum destroyed, but after much protesting that decision, his mausoleum will remain as is, but with little to no governmental funding for the expensive and extensive maintenance of his embalmed remains. The mausoleum is closed from February to March. The Kremlin Wall Necropolis, the former national cemetery of the Soviet Union, is located in Red Square beside the Kremlin Wall.