Stalin's bunker description and photo - Russia - Volga region: Samara (Topic)

Stalin's bunker description and photos - Russia - Volga region: Samara. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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Stalin's bunker was built in 1942 by the best Moscow metro builders as a reserve defensive structure for the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. With a depth of 37 meters (12-storey building), the object remained classified until 1990. The object was located under the building of the regional committee (now the Academy of Culture and Art), behind an inconspicuous door in the hall, to the right of the main staircase, where the NKVD officers were on duty until perestroika. There was also a "back door" to the courtyard, from where excursions are held in our time.

Being in the center of Samara, the object, classified for many years, and not used for its intended purpose, is a complex structure: two vertical shafts ( main and spare) with a diameter of nine meters and a depth of 20m., a connecting corridor 50m long. (with hermetically sealed doors) with a branch to the shaft, which has a depth of seventeen meters with a diameter of 7.5 meters. Five underground floors with offices (one of which is a copy of Stalin's office in the Kremlin), restrooms and a meeting room with an installed (for the first time in the history of the USSR) air regeneration system and a supply of everything needed for five days in an autonomous mode. The floors are counted from bottom to top, and therefore the deepest floor is considered the first, in it there is a holy of holies, a high-domed (over four meters) Stalin's rest room with parquet, wall sconces and a sofa in a white cover, resembling a shroud.

The grandeur and scale of the building is simply amazing. Nowadays, a museum is open in the bunker and everyone can plunge into the atmosphere of wartime in a once super-secret facility.

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