Exhibition features Lenin portraits

On display are nearly 200 photographs, documents, artifacts and documentaries related to Lenin - a great leader of the Russian people as well as the master of the world proletarian revolution.

Many of the items on show are being presented in Vietnam for the first time.

The exhibition depicts the solidarity, friendship and cooperation between Vietnam and the former Soviet Union and the present Russian Federation, which was forged by President Ho Chi Minh and generations of leaders from both countries.

Visitors to the exhibition learnt about Vietnam's renewal (doi moi) process in the light of Marxism-Leninism and the Thought of Ho Chi Minh.

The vice head of the Ulyanovsk Lenin Memorial House, Peffilov Valery, said the exhibition aimed to celebrate the 142^nd birthday of Lenin (April 22) and to implement a cooperation agreement between the Memorial House and the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Hanoi.

Valery said the city of Ulyanovsk, Lenin’s birthplace, has long established ties with Vietnam, particularly with Nghe An province, the homeland of Ho Chi Minh.

He said a street in Ulyanovsk was named after Ho Chi Minh in 1987 and a statue of the great leader was later erected on this street.

Valery added that the Lenin Memorial House looks forward to welcoming a delegation from the Ho Chi Minh Museum to mount an exhibition on the life and revolutionary career of President Ho Chi Minh next month.