Bunker-42 on Taganka

This guide to Bunker-42 on Taganka in Moscow follows the Soviet workers who dug sixty five meters beneath an ordinary Moscow apartment block in the early 1950s, using the same crews and machines building the Moscow metro to keep the work hidden in plain sight. You'll hear how the bunker, finished by 1954, became the nerve center for the USSR's long range nuclear bomber fleet for over three decades. The guide traces what changed as weapons grew faster and bigger, and the years the command post sat forgotten before anyone decided its fate.