The Cold War Museum "Bunker-42", which is located on Taganka, aka "Stalin's Bunker", is located at Moscow, 5th Kotelnichesky Pereulok, 11. It is the largest underground complex. It currently serves as the Cold War Museum.
Underground Bunker Museum
"Bunker-42" on Taganka is a unique facility located in the very center of Moscow at a depth of sixty-five meters. This is the former location of the secret military facility - the Tagansky Command Post.
The design of the complex began in the forties, with the beginning of the Cold War, as directed by Stalin. In 1951, the facility began to be built on the construction technologies of the Moscow metro. In 1956, the bunker had an area of ​​7,000 square meters. The host State Commission transferred it to the Ministry of Defense.
The underground complex had tunnels that were connected in two ways with the Taganskaya metro station. The first move was used to supply the object. He went into the tunnel between the Taganskaya and Kurskaya stations. The second move was laid directly in the technical premises of the Taganskaya Koltso Station. The bunker itself was used as a Reserve Command Post of the Long-Range Aviation Headquarters . Missiles would fly from here if a decision was made upstairs towards the United States. To ensure the operation of telegraph and telephone communications, alert service was carried by from one hundred to five hundred people. The entire staff of employees was 2500 units.
Hopper equipment and equipment
The following facilities functioned in the bunker:
a radio station;
central telegraph;
geodetic laboratory.
The facility became fully equipped in the 1960s. The system of fully equipping the hopper predetermined:
- fuel reserves;
- food supplies;
- installation of air purification systems;
- the presence of wells with drinking water;
- waste management system.
"Bunker-42" on Taganka in the 1970s was to undergo a reconstruction in connection with outdated systems of equipment and life support. But then came the well-known processes: perestroika, the collapse of the Soviet Union, troubled times, and financing for reconstruction was stopped. As a military facility, the bunker became unprofitable, and in 1995 it was declassified.
The current purpose of the bunker
Now it is contained as a Cold War bunker museum and is open to all. Times are changing, and now group tours are held on the territory of the facility. Today, the developed program for visiting the underground facility includes:
- introductory inspection of underground tunnels;
- entertainment events;
- sporting events;
- holding conferences and presentations.
Dungeon journey
There is Moscow land and there is Moscow underground. Underground Moscow is a complex of tunnels and dungeons, which are a legacy of both the most ancient times and the times of the Soviet era. The brightest representative of Soviet times is the underground "Bunker-42", and now the Museum of the Cold War on Taganka. For excursion visits to the museum, groups of several dozen people are recruited, although there is the possibility of individual visits to the once-most secret object of the Soviet Union. Entrance to the facility is carried out strictly with the duty officer.
The tour is an hour and a half, and it is carried out with the help of a guide. Entrance to the bunker is through a massive green gate with a red star painted on it. Immediately behind the airtight door of two tons of weight are two more airtight doors. When they are closed, compressed air is supplied between them , blocking the entrance from the outside. A person coming from an infected surface could go into a special compartment, where a shower was provided and receiving clean uniforms. Behind the door was a staircase going down. Those who wish can now take the elevator. The descent itself is sixty-five meters or eighteen floors down.
Below is a checkpoint for workers and employees of the facility. Everyone can drink sparkling water from the installed machine.
Cold War Museum
What is the Bunker-42 Cold War Museum? This is a dungeon corridor system with a loop structure. In general, before the facility had four entrances. The people who worked here used different inputs. During the day, the attendants changed in small groups of several people, so that the outside was not so noticeable. Each employee knew only his entrance to his own workplace.
From the corridor you can turn into a cinema room equipped with equipment for watching movies. The main room is a room with nuclear buttons, a place for constant watch. Here at all times of the day at least two duty officers who monitor the signals of the monitors and are ready to complete the task at any time should be on duty at all times. There is also a showcase with models of missiles that could fly at any moment, if ordered, to a certain point in the world. There is the possibility of virtual observation of the destruction of a nuclear strike.
Further, the underground museum "Bunker-42" has a hall in which are installed:
- telegraph equipment
- radio equipment;
- telephone equipment;
- cryptographic equipment.
There are also display cases with gas masks, weapons, geyser counters that measure the level of radiation.
Types of site tours
Cold War Museum "Bunker-42" provides the visitor with a choice of excursions to the object:
"Vulture removed" - an excursion that is dedicated to the past period of nuclear confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States.
“ZKP-42” - an excursion including a visit to Stalin’s office and the hall in which the country's top leadership met.
“Extreme” - an excursion into the technological corridors, where the operation of the life support systems of the facility is demonstrated both in peacetime and in the event of the outbreak of an atomic war.
"Bunker-42" - an excursion that tells about the goals, purpose and construction of the object "Bunker-42".
The price of various types of programs is slightly different. So, for example, the cost of the tour "ZKP-42" is 1400 rubles, and "Vulture removed" - 700 rubles as part of a group of up to 40 people. For students and pupils discounts are provided.
Museum game programs
The Cold War Museum provides various types of game programs for both children, adults, and adults.
“Crazy Professor” is a program that allows museum visitors to pass certain tests, where you can show such qualities as: ingenuity, dexterity, physical strength, teamwork, target shooting.
Zombie Apocalypse is a game program for adults. The meaning of the game is that a group of participants, fleeing the zombies themselves, must find the traces of the survivors and, preventing the spread of the zombie virus, eliminate the bunker.
"Bunker quest" - the terrorists, capturing the bunker, set the bomb. Task: completing the task of destroying terrorists and defusing a bomb, you must go through the stages, collecting and solving the corresponding clues.
“Confrontation” is a competition process in which team strategy takes precedence. The program is designed for simultaneous participation in the game of adults and children.
“Horror of the dungeon” - a program that helps to cultivate courage, overcoming fears.
Types of Services Provided
The museum provides a wide variety of services to its visitors. If desired, for a certain amount, the following is allowed here:
- children's holidays;
- corporate parties;
- private parties;
- business meetings;
- seminars and conferences;
- weddings;
- exhibitions;
- filming.
Another bunker museum provides the opportunity to conduct a team strike game. An area of ​​one thousand two hundred square meters is equipped for this. You will be given equipment and weapons. Judging by the reviews, this is one of the best places in the city for a game shootout.
The bunker, working around the clock, provides the opportunity to use the services of:
- a restaurant;
- conference room;
- banquet hall;
- karaoke club;
- cinema hall with DVD equipment;
- hall with a capacity of 1000 people.
"Bunker-42": reviews
Thousands of people visit this place every year. Most of them are satisfied that they were in the Bunker-42 museum. Reviews indicate that a visit to the museum is:
- a fascinating pastime not only for adults, but also for children who are interested in history;
- an unforgettable impression of the scale of the exhibits, the power of the entire structure;
- excursion to parallel reality, a very bewitching place;
- this is a place where you feel different, as if you were in the past;
- a great place as a museum, the bunker makes a strong and positive impression.
It is important to know that Moscow residents have recently learned about the construction and existence of a secret bunker. Everything was classified, encrypted, and information was hidden. Only those close to the government of the state were initiated into the secrets of the complex. When the veil of mystery fell, one can only admire the grandeur of the scale of this building.
The most important thing after visiting the complex is what questions a person asks himself, what worries him and what he thinks about.