Necropolis

Behind the Lenin Mausoleum, by the Kremlin wall, is the Revolution Necropolis. Here are graves with tombstones and busts of Lenin's associates, and figures in the Communist Party and the Soviet state. On either side of these burials are communal graves where heroes who perished in the fighting for the Revolution and the establishment of Soviet power are buried. Behind the black slabs set in the Kremlin wall are urns with the ashes of eminent members and statesmen, writers, scholars, generals, hero-pilots, stratosphere fliers and cosmonauts.