🖼 Bunker-42 on Taganka

5-й Котельнический пер., 11

A former Cold War backup command post with tunnels under the street and halls for tours.

The bunker was built from 1950 using metro technology; its tunnels connect to Taganskaya station.
It was the backup command post of Long-Range Aviation, a classified "Facility No. 20" covering more than 7,000 m².
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 the bunker operated autonomously, with up to 2,500 people on duty.
The museum opened in 2006, when a private company bought the former facility.
From the military furnishings, the airtight doors, steel wall lining, an old telephone and a portrait of Karl Marx have survived.

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