Today is the birth day of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov alias Lenin who was born on April 22, 1870 in Simbirsk, Russia, which was later renamed Ulyanovsk in his honour. Lenin was the founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and architect and first head of the Soviet state. On January 21, 1924 he passed away in the village now known as Gorki Leninskiye.