| January 21, 6.50 p.m., Gorki |
Lenin dies. |
| Night of January 21 |
The Central Committee of the R.C.P.(B.) holds a Plenary Meeting in connection with Lenin’s death. |
| January 22 |
M. I. Kalinin informs the Eleventh All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Lenin’s death. |
| January 22-23 |
Members of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission of the R.C.P.(B.), members of the Council of People’s Commissars, delegations from the Congress of Soviets and Moscow organisations, as well as peasants from the surrounding villages come to Gorki to take their leave of Lenin. |
| January 23, 10-11 a.m. |
The coffin with Lenin’s body is carried from Gorki to the Gerasimovo (now Leninskaya) Station. |
| January 23, 1 p.m., Moscow |
The funeral train with Lenin’s body arrives in Moscow. Lenin’s immediate associates carry the coffin to the Hall of Columns of the House of Trade Unions. |
| January 26 |
The Second Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R. meets in memorial session. It adopts an address “To Working Mankind” and passes decisions to rename Petrograd into Leningrad, to erect monuments to Lenin, and to publish his works. |
| January 23-27 |
Hundreds of thousands of workers, peasants, Red Army men and employees of Moscow, and delegations from the working people of all parts of the Soviet Union file in endless day and night procession through the Hall of Columns to take their leave of Lenin. |
| January 27, 9.20 |
The coffin with Lenin’s body is carried from Hall of Columns to Red Square. |
| January 27, 4. p.m. |
The coffin with Lenin’s body is installed in mausoleum in Red Square. |