![]() ![]() “We’ve had many times more people visiting,” she said, as three tours were being held simultaneously in mid-February.Ī former city official and a regional historian in Samara, the regional capital, told the Guardian that the much larger “Kalinin bunker” almost certainly would be considered under a recent order by Putin to prepare for civil defence. They’re thinking about them more and more carefully. “Everyone is interested in these kinds of structures. Underground, it feels a bit like being caught inside a municipal building with no windows, with fading paint and wood-panelled boardrooms and offices. Parts remain an active shelter under control of Russia’s emergencies ministry, she said. “People are much, much more interested in the bunkers,” says Ekaterina, a tour guide leading a packed excursion through Object No 1, the “Stalin bunker”, a bomb shelter built 36 metres underground in 1942 for the Kremlin high command. Photograph: Handoutĭespite the border being more than 500 miles away from Samara the war in Ukraine has reinvigorated interest in the bunkers. ![]() ![]() Soviet top brass could escape the effects of bombardment during the great patriotic war deep underground. ![]()
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