Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin

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Lenin's funeral

Lenin's funeral (1925), by Isaak Brodsky (detail).
Date	27 January 1924; 100 years ago (1924-01-27)
Location	Red Square, Moscow, Soviet Union
Participants	RCP(b) leaders, relatives and followers.

On 21 January 1924, at 18:50 EET, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the October Revolution and the first leader and co-founder of the Soviet Union, died in Gorki aged 53 after falling into a coma.^[1] The official cause of death was recorded as an incurable disease of the blood vessels.^[2] Lenin was given a state funeral and then buried in a specially erected mausoleum on 27 January. A commission of the Central Committee of the RCP(b) was in charge of organising the funeral.