MOSCOW, April 22 (Itar-Tass) - Opinion pollsters said 32.9 percent of Russians believe that the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin brought more good than harm to the country, versus 28.7 percent who think otherwise.
The poll conducted by the Mneniye public opinion study center, involved 1,020 respondents and was timed with Lenin's 129th birth date, the center's press service reported on Thursday.
Fifty percent of those polled backed the proposal to bury Lenin in St.Petersburg, 36 percent said his body should remain in his Moscow mausoleum while 14 percent were undecided.
As many as 40 percent approved the abolition of the ceremony of the change of guard at Lenin Mausoleum in 1993, against 42 percent who said the decision was wrong. Eighteen percent were uncertain.
When asked if they preferred to call Russia's second largest city Leningrad or St.Petersburg in case of a referendum, 54 percent of the respondents said they would vote for St.Petersburg and 28 percent -- for Leningrad.