Lenin and Stalin are hidden at the bottom of the Black Sea, Crimea.
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An unusual museum lies at the bottom of the Black Sea, 100 meters from Crimea's
Cape Tarkhankut. / Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin
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Monuments to famous people are sited below the waves in so-called “halls,” divided from each other by arches. / Founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution Vladimir Lenin
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There are monuments to famous Communist politicians in one hall, and cultural and artistic figures in another. / Vladimir Lenin
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In 1992, local diver Vladimir Borumensky placed the first monuments to Soviet leaders, standing 12-15 meters high, on the seabed. / The first human in space Yuri Gagarin
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The USSR had just collapsed and many monuments to Communist leaders and revolutionists were being dismantled. / Russian poet Sergei Esenin
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It was then that Vladimir took the dismantled monuments to the Black Sea, and the idea for an underwater museum was born. / Revolutionist Felix Dzherzhinsky
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The museum is home to dozens of exhibits. Tourists in diving gear gliding among the monuments and fish are an unusual sight. / Vladimir Lenin
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Today’s visitors to the museum can find Russia’s last tsar Nicholas II.
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or communist revolutionist Vladimir Lenin.
