PETROGRAD RENAMED

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1924, Page 7

PETROGRAD RENAMED

STATUES TO BE ERECTED ; THROUGHOUT* RUSSIA, ,

fUNr-SP PRESI (PUBLISHED IN THE nyES,) J (Received 30th January, noon.) m . . LONPON, ?9th Jwwy. The Riga corr.esp;ondent of "The i Times," describing the -funeral qf Lpnjn, says t)*at"it |a'st_d seven hours, altliQ-igft ! the building in which the bpdy Jay was only five rpinutes' walk from- the" tejn- . poraiy mausoleum in which it is byried. Simultaneously with the lowering of the body into the gi-fiye, factory sirens throughput Russia sounded for 'three minuies.and traffic cpased for" five. The German Anibassador placed on .the coffin a whife flp>yeredrand-ribbpned wreath. The Cengress pf the Unipn of Soviet Republics, which is at present sitting jn MosGoyv, pasß.ed. a resolution that "the body should be preserved in a glass-lid'r dpd cpgin, 3i)d b.e accessible to' visiters as long 3.8 possible, . and that I.enjn _ he.art iind, brain he placed in a specjajurn for preservation jn the Lenjn Institute. * .... Till the glazed coffin is nj»de, snd a permanent yaiilt and maupoj.ewn built, Lenin lies-in a red-draped palfen coffin within a fpur-windpwe.d' wooden (Structure lit.by electricity.' " '. Petrpgr.qd has been definitely reiianied Leningrad. It has been resplved to erfcet i monuments to Lenin in McscQw Leningrad, Kharkoff, Minsk, finis, Tashkent, and; elswhere; also tp publish millions pf copies pf his selected works in many tai'Sijages,. .especially Oriental The Postal Departments are issuing special me-morial-stamps bearing Lenin's portrait'