The stable name of household incandescent lamps in the Soviet Union is remembered by many people from that time. “Ilyich’s lamp” hung in many homes, especially in villages. Did Vladimir Ilyich Lenin invent some special “lamp” of his own? “Ilyich’s lamp,” from the times of the USSR, refers to the standard incandescent lamp used without a shade, without other “bourgeois excesses.” Such a lamp was meant to fulfill its main purpose – to shine. The expression “Ilyich’s lamp” entered common use after Vladimir Lenin’s visit to the village of Kashino in 1920. The visit was timed to the launch of the local power plant. The construction of the power plant was driven by Lenin’s speech at the 20th Komsomol Congress, where he emphasized the need to develop the state economy based on electricity. A dynamo machine, manufactured and brought from Moscow, was used as a current generator. This marked the beginning of the electrification of the Russian private sector, and Lenin’s patronymic firmly entrenched itself in speech alongside the first lamp of that time, which symbolized technical progress. The invention of the first incandescent lamp does not belong to Vladimir Lenin but to the Russian electrical engineer Alexander Lodygin. His discovery is dated July 24, 1874.