Which famous Russian leader was born in Ulyanovsk?
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Answer
Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union and a key figure in Russian history, was born in Ulyanovsk (then Simbirsk). The city was renamed in his honor after his death in 1924.
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