Museum of the Cold War "Bunker-42", which is on the Taganka, also known as "Stalin's bunker", located at the address: Moscow, 5th Kotelnichesky Pereulok. 11. It is the largest underground complex.Currently it serves as a museum of the Cold War.
Underground Bunker Museum
«Bunker-42" at the Taganka is a unique object in the center of Moscow at a depth of sixty-five meters.It is the former location of a secret military facility - Reserve Command Post "Tagansky".
Designing of the complex started in the forties, with the beginning of the Cold War, on Stalin's orders.In 1951, the object began to build on the technology of construction of the Moscow subway.In 1956 the bunker had an area of 7,000 square meters.Host State Commission referred it to the Ministry of Defense.
underground complex had tunnels that have been connected by two strokes with the underground "Taganskaya".The first move was used to supply the object.He went in the tunnel between stations "Taganskaya" and "Kursk".The second course was laid directly in the technical premises station "Taganskaya ring."The bunker itself was used as an alternate command post of Staff of long-range aviation.Hence it would fly the missile if it is decided at the top in the United States.To operate telegraph and telephone alert carried from one hundred to five hundred people.All the staff was 2,500.
Equipment of bunker
The bunker functioned institutions:
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station;
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Central Telegraph;
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geodetic laboratory.
equipped with the full program has become an object in the 1960s.The system fully equip the bunker prejudge:
- fuel reserves;
- food stocks;
- install air purification systems;
- presence of wells with drinking water;
- waste disposal system.
«Bunker-42" at the Taganka Theater in the 1970s, had to undergo reconstruction due to obsolete equipment and life support systems.But then there were the known processes: alteration, dissolution of the Soviet Union, troubled times, and the financing of restoration work was stopped.As a military facility bunker became unprofitable, and in 1995 it was declassified.
current destination bin
Now he shows how the Museum of the Cold War bunker and opened to everyone.Times are changing, and now the property of guided tours.Today, developed the program visit the underground facility includes:
- -finding inspection of underground tunnels;
- entertainment events;
- sporting events;
- conferences and presentations.
Journey into the dungeon
Moscow ground there exists Moscow underground.Moscow underground is a complex of tunnels and caves that are a legacy of both ancient times and the Soviet era.The brightest representative of the Soviet era is underground "Bunker-42", and now - the Museum of the Cold War, the Taganka.For tour groups visiting the museum recruited a few dozen people, although it is possible and individual visits to the once top-secret object of Soviet Union.Entrance to the facility is strictly a duty officer.
The tour is an hour and a half, and carried it with the help of a guide.Entrance to the hopper is made through a gate with a massive green painted red star on it.Immediately after the sealed door to two tons of weight are two more air-tight doors.When they are closed, between the supplied compressed air, blocking the entrance outside.Coming from the contaminated surface could go into a special compartment, where they were provided a shower and getting a clean outfit.Behind the door was placed a ladder, going down.Who wishes can now use the lift.Himself descent - is sixty-five meters or eighteen floors down.Below is
checkpoint workers and employees of the object.Anyone can drink carbonated water from the installed machine.
museum dedicated to the Cold War
What is the Museum of the Cold War "Bunker-42?".It is a system of corridors underground, having looped structure.Generally, before the facility it was four inputs.The people that work here, using various inputs.During the day duty changed in small groups of a few people to the outside it was not so noticeable.Every employee knew only their own entrance to the workplace.
With corridor can be rolled into the room, cinema room equipped with equipment for watching movies.However, the main room - a room with the nuclear button, for permanent duty.There are constantly at any time have to serve a minimum of two officers on duty, watching monitors signals and ready at any time to perform the task.Here is a showcase and a model rocket that could fly at any moment, in the case of an order, in a certain part of the world.You can monitor the virtual destruction of a nuclear strike.
Next underground museum "Bunker-42" has a living room, which establishes:
- telegraph equipment;
- radio equipment;
- telephone equipment;
- cryptographic equipment.
It also has windows with masks, weapons, Geiser counters that measure radiation levels.
kinds of excursions on the project
Museum of the Cold War "Bunker-42" provides a choice of types of visitor tours of the facility:
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«Grief shot" - an excursion that is dedicated to the past period of nuclear confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States.
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«HSC-42" - a tour to include a visit to the office of Stalin and halls, which met the top management of the country.
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«Extreme" - excursion in technological corridors, which demonstrates a life-support systems of the object both in peacetime and in the event of nuclear war.
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«Bunker-42" - a tour that tells about the objectives, purpose and construction of the facility "Bunker-42".
price of different types of programs is a little different.For example, the price of the tour "HSC-42" is 1400 rubles, and "Grief shot" - 700 rubles in a group of up to 40 people.For students and pupils are provided discounts.
Game programs Museum
Museum of the Cold War offers a different kind of game programs for children, adults, adults.
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«Crazy Professor" - a program that provides museum visitors pass certain tests, where you can show qualities such as ingenuity, dexterity, physical strength, teamwork, target shooting.
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«Zombie Apocalypse" - a game program for adults.The meaning of the game is that the group of participants must escape the zombie itself, to find traces of the survivors and preventing the spread of the virus zombies, eliminate bunker.
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«bunker-Quest" - the terrorists who seized the hopper, set the bomb.Task: complete the task to destroy the terrorists and bomb disposal, it is necessary to go through the steps of collecting clues and solve relevant.
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«Confrontation" - the process of competition, which has the advantage of team strategy.The program is designed to simultaneously participate in the game of adults and children.
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«Horror dungeon" - a program that helps to cultivate the courage to overcome fears.
Types of services
Museum offers a variety of services to its visitors.If you wish for a certain amount are permitted holding:
- children's parties;
- corporate;
- private parties;
- business meetings;
- seminars and conferences;
- weddings;
- exhibitions;
- filming.
More Bunker Museum provides an opportunity to conduct command straykovoy game.For this purpose is equipped with an area of one thousand two hundred square meters.You will be given the equipment and weapons.Judging by the reviews, this is one of the best places in town for the game shootout.
Bunker working around the clock, provides an opportunity to take advantage of:
- restaurant;
- conference room;
- banquet hall;
- karaoke club;
- cinema with DVD equipment;
- rooms for up to 1000 people.
«Bunker-42": reviews
Thousands of people visit this place every year.Most of them are satisfied with the fact that they were in a museum, "Bunker-42".Reviews suggest that the visit to the museum - is:
- fascinating pastime not only for adults but also for children who are interested in history;
- an unforgettable impression of the scale of the exhibits, all power structures;
- tour in a parallel reality, a very fascinating place;
- is a place where you feel differently if hit in the past;
- a great place as a museum, the bunker makes a strong and positive impression.
important to know that the construction and the existence of a secret bunker inhabitants of Moscow learned recently.Everything was top secret, encrypted, and the information was hidden.Only close to the state government individuals were privy to the secrets of the complex.When the veil of mystery has fallen, it remains only to admire the grandeur of the scale of the building.
most important thing after visiting the complex - this is what a person asks a question that he cares about and on what he thinks.
