Initially, the body of Lenin planned to freeze

The very next day after the death of Lenin, the People's Commissar of Foreign Trade Leonid Krasin proposed to maintain the body of the leader in the frozen form. The proposal was adopted, in Germany ordered a special refrigeration equipment, but somewhere in a month preparing for freezing interrupted.

Appearing on the scene, deputy director of the Institute of Chemistry and head of the department Boris Zbarsky anatomy Kharkov Medical University Vladimir Vorobiev. Last filed at the department "well-preserved mummies in the chat room without any constant temperature for 15 years," as written Dzerzhinsky Commissar of Education of Ukraine Volodymyr Zatonskii. Vorobiev and Zbarskii shall perform embalming without freezing.

Keeping the body of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin has nothing to do with the ancient Egyptian embalming and mummification of deceased pharaohs nor to natural mummification of bodies in some arid regions of the Earth, for example in the deserts of South America.

For example, in ancient Egypt, the body was embalmed pharaohs - protected from the external environment and the degradation by bitumen, cedar oil, vegetable resins and natural soda. The famous mummified iceman Ötzi Alpine-ice, and the body of the Buryat lama Itigelova, apparently, was mineralized sodium chloride. To keep the body of the leader of the proletariat it was invented by the original Soviet method using glycerin, formalin and potassium acetate (potassium acetate).

Source: www.inauka.ru

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