BUNKER-42
There was a very important factor considered while
located in downtown Moscow. Right after the USA choosing the location for the bunker- it should’ve been
invented a new weapon of mass destruction- the in a close distance to the Kremlin, so Stalin and other
nuclear bomb, USSR government decided to protect members of the government could easily get to the
themselves by creating not only a bunker, but their very bunker faster, in case of a nuclear attack, in order to
own bomb. Joseph Stalin was quite clear and strict in rule the country in safe conditions.
his ideas, thus, USSR scientists were obligated to
develop a nuclear bomb, as well as, come up with In 1952 the building of the main constructions of the
methods of protection from it, in very short time. bunker was done. By the summer of 1953 the
environmental support systems were finished. From the
In the 1950th the “SMU Mosmetrostroy” company began April of 1954 the first military and civilian
the construction works of the Bunker. According to the communication operators started to work on the
nuclear weapon test taken in 1949, in USSR, the ideal object. At the same time, the communication lines
depth of the Bunker should’ve been no less than 65 were laid and necessary equipment was installed.
meters in order to protect the country leaders from the
damaging consequences of a nuclear explosion, in The Bunker was build by the best specialists of the
case of the attack. “Metrostroy” company with increased speed. The soil
was excavated through four constructional mines that
By the fall of 1949 the projection bureau “Metroproekt” earlier were used to build the Moscow subway
presented the “Buker on Taganka” project that went by stations.
the code name “Object 02” (ChZ-293).
« Bunker – 42 » - is a fortification underground facility,