Where is Stalin BURIED?

The ‘Father of Nations’ died on March 5, 1953. The decision to place the leader’s body in Lenin’s Mausoleum was made before his death, so everything necessary for embalming was already ready.

However, a problem arose with renaming the mausoleum. There was neither time nor opportunity to quickly replace the monolith, complete with the inscription “Lenin”, with a new one with Stalin’s name added.

That’s why the slab was covered with pink resin, then black paint with blue specks, so that it would look more like granite. They painted both names with crimson paint, but they miscalculated – in winter, the monolith would become covered with frost and the old inscription would show through.

The block was replaced only in 1960, but, as it turned out, also in vain. In the USSR, the de-Stalinization initiated by Nikita Khrushchev was already in full swing and, on the night of November 1, 1961, the leader's body was taken out of the mausoleum.

Stalin was buried in the memorial cemetery near the kremlin wall. Since 1917, revolutionary fighters, marshals, prominent political figures and foreign communists had been buried there.

The last person to be buried in this necropolis was former Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko in 1985.