Bunker-42

This past Friday we didn't have class (National Russian Unity Day! Go be Russian nationalists!) and we had an excursion to Bunker-42, which was built 60m below Taganskaya metro station in Moscow under Stalin. It was one of the bunkers built to withstand an atomic explosion, and while it wasn't the bunker that was built for Stalin, it did have access to launch atomic weapons from it (and would have housed Stalin had something happened to his personal bunker). It's no longer actually owned by the government (it was auctioned off, and was turned into a museum). It's location is still fairly stealthily hidden (the Russians that I've talked to about it have never heard of it, and didn't know where it was, even though they have friends that live one block away).

This is a scale model of the station.


НЕ БОЛТАЙ! Do not talk!

I don't know if this was authentic, or made by the museum, but I thought it was pretty cool.

The museum simulates what would happen if a nuclear attack occurred on the surface. It involved flashing red lights, sirens, and darkness. This was how it looked afterwards.

So many tunnels.

And I played dress up.