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| | Red square, Moscow. Russia |
 | | Stretching along one side of the Kremlin walls, Red Square has become a part of its overall architectural ensemble, with seven Kremlin towers standing along its western side. |
 | | The compositional centre of Red Square, Moscow is the Lenin Mausoleum, wherein lies the body of the great revolutionary leader and founder of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet State. |
 | | Its architect, A.Shchusev, employed a simple and expressive design in the form of a monumental edifice, faced in dark red granite and fl labradorite, which embodies, as it were, the grief of the people and the power of Lenin's eternal teaching. |
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