Death and Legacy
Kalinin retired in 1946 and died on 3 June of that same year in Moscow. Kalinin was honored with a major state funeral and was buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
During his lifetime, three large cities — Tver, Korolyov and Königsberg — were named or renamed in his honor; the last has retained the name Kaliningrad after the fall of the USSR.
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