The Museum of the Cold War. "Bunker-42 at Taganka": photos and reviews

The Cold War Museum "Bunker-42", which is located on Taganka, also the "Stalin's Bunker", is located at the address: Moscow, 5th Kotelnichesky Pereulok, 11. It is the largest underground complex. Currently serves as the Cold War Museum.

Underground Bunker Museum

"Bunker-42" on Taganka is a unique object located in the heart of Moscow at a depth of sixty-five meters. This is the former location of the secret military facility - the Reserve command post "Taganskiy."

The design of the complex began back in the forties, with the onset of the Cold War, at the direction of Stalin. In 1951, the facility began to build on the technology of building the Moscow Metro. In 1956 the bunker had an area of 7000 square meters. The receiving State Commission transferred it to the Ministry of Defense.

The underground complex had tunnels that were connected by two turns from the Taganskaya metro station. The first move was used to supply the object. He went into the tunnel between the stations of "Taganskaya" and "Kursk". The second move was made directly to the technical premises of the Taganskaya Koltsevaya station. The bunker itself was used in the form of the Reserve command post of the Headquarters of long-range aviation. Hence, the rockets would fly if a decision was made at the top towards the United States. To ensure the work of telegraph and telephone communications, combat duty was carried from one hundred to five hundred people. The entire staff was 2500 units.

Bunker equipment and equipment

In the bunker there were institutions:

• Radio station;

• Central telegraph;

• Geodetic laboratory.

Equipped with the full program of the facility was in the 1960s. The full bunker equipment system predetermined:

• Fuel stocks;
• Food stocks;
• Installation of air purification systems;
• Presence of wells with drinking water;
• Waste management system.

"Bunker-42" in Taganka in the 1970s was to undergo reconstruction in connection with outdated equipment and life support systems. But then the well-known processes began: perestroika, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, troubled times, and the financing of restoration work 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 kept as a Cold War Museum bunker and is open to all visitors. Times change, and now on the territory of the object there are group excursions. Today, a program for visiting a subterranean facility includes:

• In-depth inspection of underground tunnels;
• Entertaining events;
• Sporting events;
• Holding conferences and presentations.

Journey to the Underground

There is Moscow terrestrial and there is Moscow underground. Underground Moscow is a complex of tunnels and dungeons, which are a legacy of both ancient times and times of the Soviet era. The brightest representative of Soviet times is the underground Bunker-42, and now the Cold War Museum on Taganka. For the excursion visit of the museum are recruited groups of several dozen people, although there is also the possibility of an individual visit to the once-most secret object of the Soviet Union. Entrance to the facility is carried out strictly with the duty officer.

The excursion time is one and a half hours, and it is conducted with the help of a guide. The entrance to the bunker is made through a massive green gate with a red star drawn on it. Immediately behind the sealed door in two tons of weight are still two sealed 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 enter a special compartment, where a shower was provided and a clean uniform was obtained. Behind the door was a staircase that went down. Those who wish now can use the elevator. The descent itself is sixty five meters or eighteen stories down.

At the bottom there is a checkpoint for workers and employees of the facility. All comers can drink soda from the installed machine.

Museum dedicated to the Cold War

What is the Cold War Museum "Bunker-42?". This is a dungeon corridor system that has a looped structure. In general, before on the object there were four entrances. The people that worked here used different entrances. 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 own entrance to his own workplace.

From the corridor you can turn into a room-cinema room, equipped with equipment for watching movies. The main room is a room with nuclear buttons, a place for constant watch. Here, at any time of the day, at least two officers on duty, who monitor monitors' signals and are ready to perform the task at any time, must carry the service. There is also a showcase with mock-ups of missiles that could fly at any minute, in case of an order, to a certain point in the world. There is the possibility of virtual observation of the destruction of a nuclear strike.

Further underground museum "Bunker-42" has a hall in which are installed:

• Telegraph equipment;
• Radio equipment;
• Telephone equipment;
• Encryption equipment.

There are also showcases with gas masks, weapons, Geyser counters that measure the level of radiation.

Types of excursions on the site

The Cold War Museum "Bunker-42" provides at the choice of the visitor the types of excursions on the site:

• "Grief is removed" - an excursion dedicated to the past period of the nuclear confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States.

• "ZKP-42" - an excursion with the inclusion of a visit to the cabinet of Stalin and the hall in which the country's top leadership met.

• "Extreme" - an excursion to the technological corridors, where the work of the life support systems of the object is demonstrated both in peacetime and in the case of the beginning of the nuclear war.

• "Bunker-42" - excursion, telling about the purposes, purpose and construction of the object "Bunker-42".

The price for different types of programs is slightly different. So, for example, the cost of the excursion "ZKP-42" is 1400 rubles, and "Grief is removed" - 700 rubles in the group to 40 people. Discounts are provided for students and schoolchildren.

Game programs of the museum

The Cold War Museum provides various types of game programs for both children and adults, adults.

• "Crazy Professor" - a program that provides visitors to the museum to undergo certain tests, where you can show such qualities as: ingenuity, agility, physical strength, teamwork, shooting at targets.

• "Zombie Apocalypse" is a game program for adults. The meaning of the game is that a group of participants must, in order to escape from the zombie itself, find traces of survivors and, without allowing the spread of the zombie virus, to eliminate the bunker.

• "Bunker Quest" - terrorists, seizing a bunker, establish a bomb. The task: carrying out the task of destroying terrorists and neutralizing the bomb, it is necessary to go through the stages, collecting and unraveling the appropriate clues.

• "Confrontation" is a process of competition in which the team strategy has the advantage. The program is designed for simultaneous participation in the game of adults and children.

• "Horrors of the Underground" - a program that helps to educate yourself in 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;
• Private parties;
• Business meetings;
• Seminars and conferences;
• Weddings;
• Exhibitions;
• Filming.

Another museum-bunker provides an opportunity for a team strike game. For this purpose, an area of one thousand two hundred square meters is equipped. You will be given outfit and weapons. Judging by the reviews, this is one of the best places in the city for a game firefight.

The bunker, working around the clock, provides an opportunity to use the services:

• Restaurant;
• Conference hall;
• Banquet hall;
• Karaoke club;
• Cinema 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 with the fact that they got to the museum "Bunker-42". The testimonies indicate that visiting the museum is:

• An exciting pastime not only for adults, but also for children who are interested in history;
• Unforgettable impression of the scale of the exhibits, the power of the whole structure;
• Excursion to parallel reality, a very fascinating place;
• It is a place where you feel differently, as if you were in the past;
• An excellent place as a museum, the bunker produces a strong and positive impression.

It is important to know that the residents of Moscow learned about the construction and existence of a secret bunker quite recently. Everything was classified, encrypted, and the information was hidden. Only persons close to the government of the state were initiated into the secrets of the complex. When the veil of mystery fell, it remains only to admire the grandeur of the scale of this structure.

The most important thing after visiting the complex is what kind of questions a person asks himself, what he cares about and what he thinks about.