Construction of a temporary mausoleum for V.I. Lenin on Red Square (1924)

Red Army sappers at the construction site of the temporary mausoleum of V.I. Lenin near the Kremlin wall on Red Square.

Signalmen at field telephones installed at the construction site of the temporary mausoleum.

Blasting operations on Red Square in the pit for the mausoleum.

Sappers use shovels to remove frozen soil from the pit.

Loading soil into carts for removal.

Delegates of the Congress of Soviets at the pit.

Carrying out excavation work during the construction of the temporary mausoleum at night in the light of searchlights.

Sappers dig a pit in the beams of searchlights and remove soil.

Erection of the frame of the temporary mausoleum and a funeral platform for the installation of the coffin with Lenin's body at the funeral rally (panorama).

Carpenters at the construction of the temporary mausoleum.

Panorama of the construction of the temporary mausoleum at night in the light of a searchlight.

The foreman oversees the work.

The coffin with Lenin's body in the Column Hall of the House of Unions (above).

Krupskaya N.K. at Lenin's coffin.