列宁的遗体已展出超过90年 Lenin's body has been on display for more than 90 years

Russia's government has announced it willspend up to 13m roubles ($200,000; ￡140,000) this yearon preserving Vladimir Lenin's embalmed body.

俄罗斯政府宣布,本年度将花费多达1300万卢布(合20万美元; 14万英镑), 用于保存列宁经过防腐处理的遗体.

The amount, published in a notice on theState Procurement Agency website, will be used to keep the late leader'sremains in what the RBK news website calls a "lifelike condition".

政府采办局网站一则通告中公布的这笔款项, 将用于保存这位已故领导人的遗体, 使其处于RBK新闻网站所称的“栩栩如生的状态”.

The notice says the work requiRed is of a"biomedical nature", that the federal budget will foot the bill. Alaboratory currently called the Russian Biomedical Technology Research andTraining Centre has carried out all repairs to Lenin's body since it was firstput on public display in Moscow's Red Square in 1924.

该通告说, 所需进行的修复工作具有“生物医学性质”, 将由联邦预算买单. 自1924年列宁遗体首次在莫斯科红场公开展示以来, 目前称为 “俄罗斯生物医学技术研究培训中心”的实验室就承担了遗体的所有修复工作.

In the post-Soviet years there have beenmany calls for Lenin to be buried rather than kept on public display in hisglass coffin. A recent online poll of more than 8,000 Russians found that 62%were in favour of giving him a proper burial, although the idea has previouslybeen dismissed by the Kremlin.

苏联解体后的这些年, 许多人呼吁埋葬列宁,而不是放在水晶棺材里供人瞻仰. 最近一项由超过8千俄罗斯人参与的网上调查发现, 62%的人赞成给他一个体面的葬礼, 虽说此前克里姆林宫对这个主意不予理会.

News of Lenin's maintenance budget hasn'tgone down well among social media users. On the Komsomolskaya Pravda websitesome deplore the cost of keeping a "mummy" on display, while otherscomplain that Lenin himself would have opposed being treated as an "idol" person sardonically suggests that the Communists hope to clone theBolshevik leader if they ever return to power, and another says that if they'regoing to bury Lenin they should first dig up post-Soviet President BorisYeltsin.

列宁遗体保养预算的消息在社交媒体用户中没有受到欢迎. 在《共青团真理报》网站上, 有些人痛惜保持一具“木乃伊”展出的费用, 而另外一些人抱怨说,列宁本人也会反对被当作“偶像”. 有个人讥讽道,如果共产主义者能再度执政, 他们希望克隆这位布尔什维克领导人, 另一个人则说,如果他们要下葬列宁,就应当先把后苏联时代的叶利钦总统挖出来.